EXPRESS in a Sentence

Learn EXPRESS 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.
359 example sentences for EXPRESS, such as:
1. I am going to travel by express.
2. I can't express how grateful I am.
3. Neither pen nor pencil can express.
4. Everyone is free to express himself.
5. I can express myself in good English.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of EXPRESS
express
 v.  obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action
 n.  mail that is distributed by a rapid and efficient system
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  During our walk, Clerval endeavoured to say a few words of consolation; he could only express his heartfelt sympathy.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
2  Sometimes I wished to express my sensations in my own mode, but the uncouth and inarticulate sounds which broke from me frightened me into silence again.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
3  I lived at West Egg, the--well, the less fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
4  This outward mutability indicated, and did not more than fairly express, the various properties of her inner life.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In VI. PEARL
5  Thus the minister felt no apprehension that Roger Chillingworth would touch, in express words, upon the real position which they sustained towards one another.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XX.THE MINISTER IN A MAZE
6  Your secret is safe with me; but pardon me if I express some surprise at so unnecessary a communication.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 22
7  I cannot express my disappointment in having missed you the day before yesterday, nor my astonishment at not having received any answer to a note which I sent you above a week ago.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 29
8  Long letters from her, quickly succeeding each other, arrived to tell all that she suffered and thought; to express her anxious solicitude for Marianne, and entreat she would bear up with fortitude under this misfortune.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32
9  Edward was the first to speak, and it was to notice Marianne's altered looks, and express his fear of her not finding London agree with her.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 35
10  Understand, that I express no opinion, one way or other, on the trust I undertake.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XVIII
11  He says, no varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXII
12  Pointing with his pen at the office floor, to express that Australia was understood, for the purposes of the figure, to be symmetrically on the opposite spot of the globe.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXIV
13  Towards Mr. Pocket, as a grown-up infant with no notion of his own interests, they showed the complacent forbearance I had heard them express.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXV
14  It is impossible to express with what acuteness I felt the convict's breathing, not only on the back of my head, but all along my spine.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXVIII
15  I was beginning to express my gratitude to my benefactor for the great liberality with which I was treated, when Mr. Jaggers stopped me.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXVI
Example Sentence: (149 in 10 pages)
1  I can't express how grateful I am.
2  If the language can not express, I am willing to prove that life.
3  I am going to travel by express.
4  Many artists express their world view in their work.
5  I wish to express my thanks to you for instructing my child.
6  I would like to wish you a joyous new year and express my hope for your happiness and good future.
7  There aren't any words to express properly all the wonder that I feel.
8  Letters from viewers express their dissatisfaction with current programmes.
9  Staff may not leave early without the express permission of the director.
10  Everyone is free to express himself.
11  Sometimes words cannot express the burden of our heart.
12  The lawyer argued that the accused had gone to the victim's house with the express purpose of killing her.
13  I can express myself in good English.
14  Neither pen nor pencil can express.
15  He demanded, with some justice, that he should be given an opportunity to express his views.