ELEVATION in a Sentence
Learn ELEVATION from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
136 example sentences for ELEVATION, such as:
1. Don't elevate your superiors to superstar status.
2. His energy and talent elevate him to godlike status.
3. Language has elevated humans above the other animals.
4. The elevation we forebode is of the soul, not of the body.
5. Granada is high in elevation and has a dry, healthful climate.
2. His energy and talent elevate him to godlike status.
3. Language has elevated humans above the other animals.
4. The elevation we forebode is of the soul, not of the body.
5. Granada is high in elevation and has a dry, healthful climate.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of ELEVATION
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elevation
n. distance of something above a reference point (such as sea level)
n. the event of something being raised upward
Classic Sentence: (117 in 8 pages)
1 She could not account for her elevation to this position except by the fact that she could accompany anyone on the piano, even the Misses McLure who were tone deaf but who would sing duets.
2 It sometimes ends in uncommon elevation, indeed; but only at the gallows.
3 "They are your husband's," returned Mademoiselle, with a shrug and a malicious elevation of the eyebrows.
4 It possessed no other apparent advantage for a resting place, than in its elevation and form, which might render defense easy, and surprise nearly impossible.
5 After making nearly a semicircle around the pond, they diverged from the water-course, and began to ascend to the level of a slight elevation in that bottom land, over which they journeyed.
6 Obedient to the sign, the girls raised the bier to the elevation of their heads, and advanced with slow and regulated steps, chanting, as they proceeded, another wailing song in praise of the deceased.
7 He was afraid to make an open declaration of his concern, because he dreaded to place some unscrupulous confidant upon the high plane of the unconfessed from which elevation he could be derided.
8 St. Clare's mother had been a woman of uncommon elevation and purity of character, and he gave to his child his mother's name, fondly fancying that she would prove a reproduction of her image.
9 He had toiled painfully down the ravine, and on to this little elevation, in the vain hope of seeing some signs of water.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
10 On a platform beyond the southern entrance, formed by a natural elevation of the ground, were pitched five magnificent pavilions, adorned with pennons of russet and black, the chosen colours of the five knights challengers.
11 Edmund had descended from that moral elevation which he had maintained before, and they were both as much the better as the happier for the descent.
12 There was an abstraction in his eye, an elevation in his air, which might have warned an observant stranger that thoughts were passing in the beadle's mind, too great for utterance.
13 Their path was not over Rainbarrow now, but down a valley which left that ancient elevation a little to the east.
14 On the horizon through the trees, he perceived a sort of little elevation, and on this elevation something which at that distance resembled a lion.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES
15 The elevation of level which they contribute to civilization is intrinsic with them; it proceeds from themselves and not from an accident.
Example Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1 The elevation we forebode is of the soul, not of the body.
2 Granada is high in elevation and has a dry, healthful climate.
3 Language has elevated humans above the other animals.
4 He was elevated to do the rank of major due to his wise command in the battle.
5 His career has blossomed and that has given him a certain elevated status.
6 The hotel stands in an elevated position looking out over the lake.
7 He elevated many of his friends to powerful positions within the government.
8 Most rational people don't enjoy that kind of opinionated discourse since it achieves nothing but elevated blood pressure.
9 High acidity and elevated levels of metals can seriously impair the ability of water bodies to support life, resulting in a decline in species diversity.
10 Did he heed the global outpouring of adulation that elevated Mandela, who died aged 95 last December, to virtual sainthood?
11 His energy and talent elevate him to godlike status.
12 The teacher hoped to elevate the minds of her young pupils by reading them religious stories.
13 Don't elevate your superiors to superstar status.
14 It is true that fabric, construction, and a designer name on a label elevate the price of clothing.
15 But sometimes there's a photograph that really matters, one that I want to elevate above the ephemeral stream that I'll forget about by the end of the day.