ELEMENT in a Sentence
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213 example sentences for ELEMENT, such as:
1. Cost was a key element in our decision.
2. Lily was in her element on such occasions.
3. Any investment involves an element of risk.
4. He was the discoverer of the element radium.
5. There is an element of truth in what you say.
2. Lily was in her element on such occasions.
3. Any investment involves an element of risk.
4. He was the discoverer of the element radium.
5. There is an element of truth in what you say.
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Meanings and Examples of ELEMENT
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element
n. a straight line that generates a cylinder or cone
n. the situation in which you are happiest and most effective
Classic Sentence: (106 in 8 pages)
1 Not only did the romantic aura of the dashing blockader hang about him but there was also the titillating element of the wicked and the forbidden.
2 Everything about him accorded with the fastidious element in her taste, even to the light irony with which he surveyed what seemed to her most sacred.
3 Lily was in her element on such occasions.
4 To Lily this attitude was the most ominous, because the most perplexing, element in the situation.
5 These crack specialists, the young scientific fellows, they're so cocksure and so wrapped up in their laboratories that they miss the human element.
6 Because no man can ever feel his own identity aright except his eyes be closed; as if darkness were indeed the proper element of our essences, though light be more congenial to our clayey part.
7 But, doubtless, this noble savage fed strong and drank deep of the abounding element of air; and through his dilated nostrils snuffed in the sublime life of the worlds.
8 Most of them walked into the water as though into a native element.
9 Grandmother Majauszkiene had lived in the midst of misfortune so long that it had come to be her element, and she talked about starvation, sickness, and death as other people might about weddings and holidays.
10 Some ran furiously to the water's edge, beating the air with frantic gestures, while others spat upon the element, to resent the supposed treason it had committed against their acknowledged rights as conquerors.
11 The fiercer element had cropped the verdure of the plain, which looked as though it were scathed by the consuming lightning.
12 Bad as all slaveholders are, we seldom meet one destitute of every element of character commanding respect.
13 The leading trait in his character was meanness; and if there were any other element in his nature, it was made subject to this.
14 Right has its wrath, Bishop; and the wrath of right is an element of progress.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
15 By the side of this romantic element which we have just indicated there is the social symptom.
Example Sentence: (107 in 8 pages)
1 There is not the least element of truth in his account of what happened.
2 There is an element of truth in what you say.
3 The promise of tax cuts became the dominant element in the campaign.
4 His testimony was an important element of the Prosecution case.
5 The victim's conduct had involved an element of provocation.
6 His version of events does contain an element of truth.
7 These rumours do contain an element of truth.
8 Cost was a key element in our decision.
9 Customer relations is an important element of the job.
10 The first element of success is the determination to succeed.
11 Natural selection is a key element of Darwin's theory of evolution.
12 Justice is an important element of good government.
13 He was the discoverer of the element radium.
14 Any business venture contains an element of risk.
15 Any investment involves an element of risk.