FIGURE in a Sentence

Learn FIGURE 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.
409 example sentences for FIGURE, such as:
1. Please figure out the total cost.
2. He removed the figure from the board.
3. A figure came into my peripheral vision.
4. Bill perceived a tiny figure in the distance.
5. She has been a central figure in the campaign.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of FIGURE
figure
 v.  judge to be probable
 v.  understand
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  At present my attention was centred upon the single grim motionless figure which lay stretched upon the boards, with vacant sightless eyes staring up at the discoloured ceiling.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
2  As he stood, he leaned upon his weapon for support, and yet his tall figure and the massive framework of his bones suggested a wiry and vigorous constitution.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
3  At the same moment a vague shadowy figure emerged from the gap for which they had been making, and uttered the plaintive signal cry again, on which a second man appeared out of the obscurity.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE
4  Without a glance or a word to the cowering women, he walked up to the white silent figure which had once contained the pure soul of Lucy Ferrier.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
5  Tales were told in the City of the weird figure which was seen prowling about the suburbs, and which haunted the lonely mountain gorges.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
6  Clover was a stout motherly mare approaching middle life, who had never quite got her figure back after her fourth foal.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I
7  She never came out of a shop, for example, with the clothes she admired; nor did her figure, seen against the dark roll of trousering in a shop window, please her.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
8  She had given up dealing with her figure and thus gained freedom.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 3
9  And the human figure was seen to great advantage against a background of sky.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 5
10  And the pilgrims who had continued their march and their chant in the background, now gathered round the figure of Eliza on her soap box as if to form the audience at a play.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 6
11  Hands joined, heads knocking, they danced round the majestic figure of the Elizabethan age personified by Mrs. Clark, licensed to sell tobacco, on her soap box.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 7
12  And once more a huge symbolical figure emerged from the bushes.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
13  A very fine figure of a man he was, everyone agreed, his truncheon extended; his waterproof pendant.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
14  For a moment she looked like a tragic figure from another play.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 13
15  The figure was stiff; but the signature was good for more than that, if it was only genuine.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR
Example Sentence: (199 in 14 pages)
1  The system keeps crashing and no one is able to figure out why.
2  A faintly comic figure, he fears ridicule above all else.
3  The administration coyly refused to put a firm figure on the war's costs.
4  I can't give you anything more than just sort of a ballpark figure.
5  The best for a woman who has nice figure is to turn around and leave.
6  Please figure out the total cost.
7  This figure can be expressed as a percentage of the total.
8  Suddenly I saw a tall figure approaching toward the policeman.
9  A figure came into my peripheral vision.
10  A strange figure appeared in the doorway, clad in white.
11  He carved the figure of a woman from a piece of wood.
12  Bill perceived a tiny figure in the distance.
13  Girls always eat like a bird in order to keep a slender figure.
14  He removed the figure from the board.
15  She has been a central figure in the campaign.