ENTIRE in a Sentence

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368 example sentences for ENTIRE, such as:
1. He loaned the museum his entire collection.
2. Bonington spent his entire adult life in France.
3. She spent her entire adult life caring for others.
4. The new hospital will benefit the entire community.
5. His uncontrolled behavior disturbed the entire class.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of ENTIRE
entire
 a.  (used of domestic animals) sexually competent
 n.  uncastrated adult male horse
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Until the previous summer, Stuart had courted India Wilkes with the approbation of both families and the entire County.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  Melanie, bonneted and shawled, sedate in newly acquired matronly dignity, hung on his arm and the entire personnel of Tara, black and white, turned out to see Ashley off to the war.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
3  Along the entire route of several hundred miles, the tracks had been cleared and all the available rolling stock in the Southeast had been assembled for the movement.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
4  The railroads for which Sherman had fought an entire summer and killed thousands of men were again stimulating the life of the city they had brought into being.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
5  He could tell of consumption making inroads on entire families and of pellagra, once found only among poor whites, which was now appearing in Atlanta's best families.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
6  The mansion had a ballroom, but it looked like a billiard table compared with the enormous room that covered the entire third floor of Scarlett's house.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
7  A veranda encircled the entire house, and four flights of steps on the four sides of the building led up to it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
8  Then in a shy avalanche arrived the entire aristocracy of Gopher Prairie: all persons engaged in a profession, or earning more than twenty-five hundred dollars a year, or possessed of grandparents born in America.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
9  So they sought to evolve the postal rate from their inner consciousnesses, which, combined with entire frankness in thinking aloud, was their method of settling all problems.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
10  I lay there dismally calculating that sixteen entire hours must elapse before I could hope for a resurrection.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4. The Counterpane.
11  The prodigious strain upon the main-sail had parted the weather-sheet, and the tremendous boom was now flying from side to side, completely sweeping the entire after part of the deck.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13. Wheelbarrow.
12  Now, then, come the grand divisions of the entire whale host.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
13  In strange contrast to the hardly tolerable constraint and nameless invisible domineerings of the captain's table, was the entire care-free license and ease, the almost frantic democracy of those inferior fellows the harpooneers.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 34. The Cabin-Table.
14  In one of those southern whalesmen, on a long three or four years' voyage, as often happens, the sum of the various hours you spend at the mast-head would amount to several entire months.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 35. The Mast-Head.
15  Here then, from three impartial witnesses, I had a deliberate statement of the entire case.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 49. The Hyena.
Example Sentence: (158 in 11 pages)
1  Bonington spent his entire adult life in France.
2  She spent her entire adult life caring for others.
3  While her observations may be true about some men, they could hardly apply to the entire gender.
4  The Texas Supreme Court will consider a case next month that could seal another entire realm of information: district attorney files.
5  His uncontrolled behavior disturbed the entire class.
6  The new hospital will benefit the entire community.
7  After both their parents died, one of their father's relatives carted off the entire contents of the house.
8  The entire east wing of the building was demolished in the fire.
9  Saivonsac shot the entire film with a hand-held camera.
10  The entire metropolitan center possessed a high and mighty air calculated to overawe and abash the common applicant.
11  His entire collection will come under the hammer at next week's sale.
12  He loaned the museum his entire collection.
13  The company eventually monopolized the entire cigarette industry.
14  In fact it is these abuses that have provided the ammunition to bring the entire concept of headship into disrepute.
15  Cover the entire device to prevent water penetration.