FORM in a Sentence

Learn FORM 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.
410 example sentences for FORM, such as:
1. Attack is the best form of defence.
2. It's bad form to argue with the umpire.
3. A sod covers his gentle form, and he knows no pain.
4. I could just about make out his sleeping form on the bed.
5. Any form of physical activity will invalidate the results.
Search Quotes from Classic Book
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
 Input your word:
Want to search a word in classic works?
Search Classic Quotes
 Meanings and Examples of FORM
form
 v.  make something, usually for a specific function
 v.  assume a form or shape
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  His soul is as hellish as his form, full of treachery and fiend-like malice.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
2  In the university whither I was going I must form my own friends and be my own protector.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
3  A sod covers his gentle form, and he knows no pain.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
4  Elinor's heart thanked her for such kindness towards Edward, though she could not forbear smiling at the form of it.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 37
5  I started up and beheld a radiant form rise from among the trees.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
6  It began to be unnecessary to repeat the form of saying he might, so he did it at once.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XIX
7  When you say you love me, I know what you mean, as a form of words; but nothing more.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XLIV
8  I am very much obliged to anybody who assists me, and I only want to be consulted as a mere form, sometimes.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE
9  "Unless in that form," said Mr. Wopsle, nodding towards the dish.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV
10  I remember that I thought it, in form, more like a riding-habit with the superfluous skirt cut off, than anything else.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13. THE SEQUEL OF MY RESOLUTION
11  He was as mute and senseless as the box, from which his form derived the only expression it had.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 30. A LOSS
12  I have seen passion in many forms, but I have never seen it in such a form as that.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. THE BEGINNING OF A LONG JOURNEY
13  In the moment's pause I speak of, I saw Uriah's countenance form itself into a most ill-favoured smile.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 35. DEPRESSION
14  He folded up the note again, with great patience and care, in exactly the same form, and laid it on one side.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 40. THE WANDERER
15  So far as it was developed, it had been my happiness to form it.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 42. MISCHIEF
Example Sentence: (200 in 14 pages)
1  A gentle form of exercise will increase your ability to relax.
2  Any form of physical activity will invalidate the results.
3  Detach the lower part of the form from this letter and return it to the above address.
4  The donkey is a domesticated form of the African wild ass.
5  The notions we children were able to form of the great world beyond were exceedingly nebulous.
6  Don't form an opinion about something based on appearance alone.
7  Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer among women in this country.
8  The fossils appear to be an early form of seaweed washed up on a beach.
9  It's bad form to argue with the umpire.
10  The painter evolved his ideas about the form and color out of the work of an earlier artist.
11  Attack is the best form of defence.
12  The prologue to the novel is written in the form of a newspaper account.
13  A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; a beautiful behavior than a beautiful form.
14  I could just about make out his sleeping form on the bed.
15  The tall graceful form of a woman appeared at the top of the stairs.