DRAGON in a Sentence
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22 example sentences for DRAGON, such as:
1. Hannah is a model servant, and guards pretty Meg like a dragon.
2. Bouddha went into its den and succeeded in converting the dragon.
3. Many men have a secret monster in this same manner, a dragon which gnaws them, a despair which inhabits their night.
4. Staring once at the red eyes across the river, he conceived them to be growing larger, as the orbs of a row of dragons advancing.
5. Yes, it is true that there was a dragon, which, from the depths of its cave, spouted flame through his maw and set the heavens on fire.
2. Bouddha went into its den and succeeded in converting the dragon.
3. Many men have a secret monster in this same manner, a dragon which gnaws them, a despair which inhabits their night.
4. Staring once at the red eyes across the river, he conceived them to be growing larger, as the orbs of a row of dragons advancing.
5. Yes, it is true that there was a dragon, which, from the depths of its cave, spouted flame through his maw and set the heavens on fire.
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Meanings and Examples of DRAGON
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dragon
v. proceed for an extended period of time
v. last unnecessarily long
Classic Sentence: (22 in 2 pages)
1 There they found the princess sitting, as the star-gazer had said, on the rock; and the dragon was lying asleep, with his head upon her lap.
2 'Then I will try my skill,' said the thief, and went and stole her away from under the dragon, so quietly and gently that the beast did not know it, but went on snoring.
3 Then away they hastened with her full of joy in their boat towards the ship; but soon came the dragon roaring behind them through the air; for he awoke and missed the princess.
4 I have been to the sun, the moon, and the night-wind, to seek thee, and at last I have helped thee to overcome the dragon.
5 Yes, it is true that there was a dragon, which, from the depths of its cave, spouted flame through his maw and set the heavens on fire.
6 Bouddha went into its den and succeeded in converting the dragon.
7 Admitting that the gigantic and gloomy insurrection of June was composed of a wrath and of an enigma, one divined in the first barricade the dragon, and behind the second the sphinx.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND...
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND...
8 Many men have a secret monster in this same manner, a dragon which gnaws them, a despair which inhabits their night.
9 "Thou art as a lion of the waters, and as a dragon of the sea," saith Ezekiel; hereby, plainly meaning a whale; in truth, some versions of the Bible use that word itself.
10 He yawned, opening a mouth like a dragon's; and he came toward the young man, wagging his tail.
11 Hannah is a model servant, and guards pretty Meg like a dragon.
12 She never created a friend, but seemed always to be sowing broadcast the dragon's teeth, whence sprung a harvest of armed enemies, against whom she rushed to battle.
13 She stirred the stagnant pool of his old heart even--where bones lay buried, but the dragon flies shot and the grass trembled as Mrs. Manresa advanced across the lawn to the strains of the gramophone.
14 There was a gem in the brain of the dragon, Philostratus told us, and "by the exhibition of golden letters and a scarlet robe" the monster could be thrown into a magical sleep and slain.
15 Staring once at the red eyes across the river, he conceived them to be growing larger, as the orbs of a row of dragons advancing.
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