EMOTION in a Sentence

Learn EMOTION 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.
283 example sentences for EMOTION, such as:
1. The plot was only there to beget emotion.
2. Just as she had brewed emotion, she spilt it.
3. Don't hold your emotion in, cry if you want to.
4. He showed no emotion as he walked into the witness box.
5. Don't make a permanent decision for your temporary emotion.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of EMOTION
emotion
 n.  any strong feeling
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  So great was his emotion, that I felt sincerely sorry for him, while the two detectives smiled derisively, by no means displeased at this check which he had met.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
2  The hunter's mind was of a hard, unyielding nature, and the predominant idea of revenge had taken such complete possession of it that there was no room for any other emotion.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
3  It is seldom that any man, unless he is very full-blooded, breaks out in this way through emotion, so I hazarded the opinion that the criminal was probably a robust and ruddy-faced man.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION
4  Mrs. Haines was aware of the emotion circling them, excluding her.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
5  The ghost of convention rose to the surface, as a blush or a tear rises to the surface at the pressure of emotion; so the car touched his training.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 3
6  The plot was only there to beget emotion.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 7
7  Just as she had brewed emotion, she spilt it.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 7
8  For the stage was empty; the emotion must be continued; the only thing to continue the emotion was the song; and the words were inaudible.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 9
9  The cows annihilated the gap; bridged the distance; filled the emptiness and continued the emotion.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 9
10  So far the letter had run composedly enough, but here with a sudden splutter of the pen, the writer's emotion had broken loose.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THE LAST NIGHT
11  "Speak your commands," said Cedric, with suppressed emotion.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
12  To invoke your pity," said the lovely Jewess, with a voice somewhat tremulous with emotion, "would, I am aware, be as useless as I should hold it mean.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
13  The physician was at first inclined to ascribe this sudden and violent emotion to the effects of insanity; and, adhering to his original purpose, began once again to handle his implements.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
14  The blood rushed in anger to the countenance of Richard; but it was the first transient emotion, and his sense of justice instantly subdued it.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
15  And in the same way, unless you had some emotion or sympathy in common with a woman you wouldn't sleep with her.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
Example Sentence: (73 in 5 pages)
1  The victim described the enemy's bombardment in a voice shaking with emotion.
2  If a woman is not sexy, she needs emotion; if she is not emotional, she needs reason; if she is not reasonable, she has to know herself clearly.
3  He showed no emotion as he walked into the witness box.
4  She felt as if every drop of emotion had been squeezed out of her.
5  Don't hold your emotion in, cry if you want to.
6  One young conscript rose with a message of thanks, his voice choked with emotion.
7  Don't make a permanent decision for your temporary emotion.
8  But there was something decidedly strange in the paroxysm of emotion which had suddenly seized him when he was in the act of expressing the present contentment of his mood
9  To win they are trying to capitalize on the raw emotion that voters are feeling, and that is anger.
10  "I think that to transfuse emotion," he writes, "to set up in the reader's sense a vibration corresponding to what was felt by the writer's is the peculiar function of poetry."
11  I had left this woman in bitterness and hate, and I came back to her now with no other emotion than a sort of compassion for her great sufferings.
12  His judgment was undistorted by emotion; we all trusted him.
13  Any show of surprise and emotion upon your part might have drawn attention to my identity and led to the most deplorable and irreparable results.
14  But a single touch of contrivance spoils it all. Any time we feel the authors creating coincidence or engineering emotion, making melodrama rather than musical drama.
15  Reports of Angela Merkel's phone being monitored by the US National Security Agency were met in Germany not just with outrage, but a more familiar German emotion: schadenfreude.