ESSAY in a Sentence
Learn ESSAY 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.
73 example sentences for ESSAY, such as:
1. She wrote an essay on My Family.
2. His essay is not based on hard science.
3. Write an essay of about five hundred words.
4. Try to prune your essay of irrelevant detail.
5. Oh, I've been up all night, finishing my essay.
2. His essay is not based on hard science.
3. Write an essay of about five hundred words.
4. Try to prune your essay of irrelevant detail.
5. Oh, I've been up all night, finishing my essay.
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Meanings and Examples of ESSAY
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essay
n. an analytic or interpretive literary composition
n. a tentative attempt
Classic Sentence: (34 in 3 pages)
1 Yet if thy desire be such to know our calamities, and briefly to hear Troy's last agony, though my spirit shudders at the remembrance and recoils in pain, I will essay.
2 Thou art his wife, and thy prayers may essay his soul.
3 Thrice there did he essay to fling his arms about his neck; thrice the phantom vainly grasped fled out of his hands even as light wind, and most like to fluttering sleep.
4 A greater history opens before me, a greater work I essay.
5 Aeneas knew the call, and makes glad invocation: 'So the father of gods speed me, so Apollo on high: do thou essay to close hand to hand.'
6 And straightway would they join battle and essay the conflict, but that ruddy Phoebus even now dips his weary coursers in the Iberian flood, and night draws on over the fading day.
7 Miss Crawford made her first essay with great credit to herself, and no inconvenience to Fanny.
8 Fanny's explanations and remarks were a most important addition to every essay, or every chapter of history.
9 But I have in my hands here a little problem which may prove to be more difficult of solution than my small essay in thought reading.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
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10 Then, selecting a little side gallery, I made my essay.
11 Mr Tate withdrew his delving hand and spread out the essay.
12 He dared even to attend the Scholomance, and there was no branch of knowledge of his time that he did not essay.
13 He, being a humorist, explained to them the method of the celebrated Dickensian essay on Chinese Metaphysics by the gentleman who read an article on China and an article on Metaphysics and combined the information.
14 I seized the handle to essay another trial; when a young man without coat, and shouldering a pitchfork, appeared in the yard behind.
15 Supposing that a living being had been so wonderfully thin as to essay an entrance or an exit through the square hole, this grating would have prevented it.
Example Sentence: (39 in 3 pages)
1 I've been toiling away at this essay all weekend.
2 For homework I want you to write an essay on endangered species.
3 Try to prune your essay of irrelevant detail.
4 I'd like to discuss the first point in your essay.
5 You should draw up a plan or outline for the essay.
6 She wrote an essay on My Family.
7 I want to finish off this essay before I go to bed.
8 I've been beating my brains out all week trying to finish this essay.
9 His essay is not based on hard science.
10 An overall theme will help to give your essay coherence.
11 Write an essay of about five hundred words.
12 Oh, I've been up all night, finishing my essay.
13 Imagine that you are writing an essay, and want to refer to what Norris says about deconstruction.
14 The title of the essay bore little relation to the contents.
15 NB The opinions stated in this essay do not necessarily represent those of the Church of God Missionary Society.