ENVIRONMENT in a Sentence

Learn ENVIRONMENT 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.
145 example sentences for ENVIRONMENT, such as:
1. We can't overbuild a natural environment area.
2. The care of the environment is of prime importance.
3. Quite rightly, the environment is of great concern.
4. They were sure of themselves and of their environment.
5. An unhappy home environment can affect a child's behaviour.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of ENVIRONMENT
environment
 n.  the totality of surrounding conditions
 n.  the area in which something exists or lives
Classic Sentence: (24 in 2 pages)
1  They were sure of themselves and of their environment.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
2  But Mr. Rosedale wanted, in the long run, a more individual environment.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 11
3  He had meant to keep free from permanent ties, not from any poverty of feeling, but because, in a different way, he was, as much as Lily, the victim of his environment.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
4  Moral complications existed for her only in the environment that had produced them; she did not mean to slight or ignore them, but they lost their reality when they changed their background.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 2
5  The environment in which Lily found herself was as strange to her as its inhabitants.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 9
6  That she was seeing with different eyes and making the acquaintance of new conditions in herself that colored and changed her environment, she did not yet suspect.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XIV
7  It was utterly useless to caution them and plead with them; quite without knowing it, they were taking on the tone of their new environment.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
8  During the early spring he had refrained from adding extensively to the comfort of his environment because he had felt that the army might start on the march at any moment.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
9  He accepted new environment and circumstance with great coolness, eating from his haversack at every opportunity.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
10  An environment which would have made a contented woman a poet, a suffering woman a devotee, a pious woman a psalmist, even a giddy woman thoughtful, made a rebellious woman saturnine.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 7 Queen of Night
11  The incongruity between the men's deeds and their environment was great.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 8 A New Force Disturbs the Current
12  An animal perfectly in harmony with its environment is a perfect mechanism.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In X
13  When sticks and stones and beasts form the sole environment of a people, their attitude is largely one of determined opposition to and conquest of natural forces.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In III
14  Since under the peculiar circumstances of the black man's environment they were the one expression of his higher life, they are of deep interest to the student of his development, both socially and psychologically.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In X
15  But it was not merely the physical conditions of environment that had caused the change.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 18
Example Sentence: (121 in 9 pages)
1  An unhappy home environment can affect a child's behaviour.
2  A bad home environment can affect a child's healthy growth.
3  They recommended the creation of a new government agency to be responsible for the environment.
4  A dangerous amount of radioactivity was released into the environment last month.
5  The law requires a detailed analysis of the potential impact on the environment of a proposed project.
6  We can't overbuild a natural environment area.
7  Certain chemicals have been banned because of their damaging effect on the environment.
8  We need to make fundamental changes to the way in which we treat our environment.
9  The radiation leak has had a disastrous effect on/upon the environment.
10  They assimilated their customs and behavior to the new environment.
11  The care of the environment is of prime importance.
12  If we continue to deplete the Earth's natural resources, we will cause serious damage to the environment.
13  Charles' concern for the environment sits uneasily with his collection of powerful cars.
14  She now had to transfer her design skills to a commercial environment.
15  Quite rightly, the environment is of great concern.