EXPERIMENT in a Sentence

Learn EXPERIMENT 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.
420 example sentences for EXPERIMENT, such as:
1. The experiment was a big success.
2. They had to drop the experiment in midstream.
3. The result of the experiment was satisfactory.
4. Well, I can't say I thank you for the experiment.
5. This experiment is designed to test the new drug.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of EXPERIMENT
experiment
 n.  a venture at something new or different
 v.  try something new, as in order to gain experience
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Nevertheless, she was soon aware that the experiment of coming to Bellomont was destined not to be successful.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
2  The smallness of the school, the fewness of rivals, permitted her to experiment with her perilous versatility.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
3  Carol caught herself picturing pleasanter reading-rooms, chairs for children, an art collection, a librarian young enough to experiment.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
4  Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied with a metaphysical professor.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1. Loomings.
5  By experiment its one and fifty yarns will each suspend a weight of one hundred and twenty pounds; so that the whole rope will bear a strain nearly equal to three tons.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 60. The Line.
6  But more surprising is it to know, as has been proved by experiment, that the blood of a Polar whale is warmer than that of a Borneo negro in summer.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 68. The Blanket.
7  The experiment in some measure succeeded, though far too many suffered their unloaded muskets to be torn from their hands, in the vain hope of appeasing the savages.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
8  Hawkeye, though too much accustomed to Indian artifices not to foresee the danger of the experiment, knew not well how to combat this sudden resolution.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 22
9  Satisfied with her examination, she left him, with a slight expression of pleasure, and proceeded to practise the same trying experiment on her delinquent countryman.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 23
10  When Heyward joined him, the scout was coolly awaiting the result of this experiment.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 31
11  Once or twice he felt induced to give the order for a rush, and to attempt the village by surprise; but his experience quickly admonished him of the danger of so useless an experiment.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32
12  Many fell, in making the experiment, under the bullets and the blows of the pursuing Delawares.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32
13  He saw that he would again be obliged to experiment as he had in early youth.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
14  Well, I can't say I thank you for the experiment.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
15  Or if ever this were done by inadvertency, or by way of experiment, there forthwith resulted such disorder and danger, that the city at once retraced its steps and reverted to the true path.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XVI.
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The researchers must keep within the parameters of the experiment.
2  The experiment was a big success.
3  I like to experiment with different light filters on my camera.
4  They had to drop the experiment in midstream.
5  This experiment is designed to test the new drug.
6  The goal of the experiment was to familiarize the people with the new laws.
7  The picture project was part of a district wide experiment to involve children with professional artists.
8  Premature disclosure of the test sites might lead to invalidation of the experiment.
9  We can learn by experiment that oil and water will not mix.
10  A researcher reports a particular result, and to verify it other scientists repeat the same experiment in their own labs.
11  The result of the experiment was satisfactory.
12  We may conclude that he never had recourse to this simple experiment.
13  The lime water has turned cloudy, therefore carbon dioxide has been produced during the experiment.
14  Impressed by the young researcher's well-documented presentation, we accepted her analysis of the experiment as authoritative.
15  Pavlov's experiment in which he trains a dog to salivate on hearing a bell is a paradigm of the conditioned-response experiment in behavioral psychology.