FOUNDATION in a Sentence
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123 example sentences for FOUNDATION, such as:
1. The rumour is without foundation in fact.
2. No good building without a good foundation.
3. Good order is the foundation of all things.
4. She dug the foundation with a pick and shovel.
5. These advanced opinions had a double foundation.
2. No good building without a good foundation.
3. Good order is the foundation of all things.
4. She dug the foundation with a pick and shovel.
5. These advanced opinions had a double foundation.
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Meanings and Examples of FOUNDATION
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foundation
n. lowest support of a structure
n. an institution supported by an endowment
Classic Sentence: (90 in 7 pages)
1 She had committed a fault, but the foundation of her nature, as will be remembered, was modesty and virtue.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER
2 The foundation of this wonderful captain was the man who, in the report to the Directory on Aboukir, said: Such a one of our balls killed six men.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 1815
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 1815
3 "A merry humor was at the foundation of his character," says Gourgaud.
4 It is because symmetry is ennui, and ennui is at the very foundation of grief.
5 These advanced opinions had a double foundation.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
6 This is the foundation of those famous acts which are called the ordinances of July.
7 It should be added, that the foundation of the Society of the Rights of Man seems to have been posterior to the date when this paper was found.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ...
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ...
8 In this state of mind nothing escaped him, nothing deceived him, and every moment he was discovering the foundation of life, of humanity, and of destiny.
9 Long damask curtains with a red foundation and three colors, like those on the bed, hung at the windows of the first floor.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN AS A NATIONAL GUARD
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN AS A NATIONAL GUARD
10 There was a foundation of wildness and bravery in her.
11 To paint with words, which contains figures one knows not how or why, is the primitive foundation of all human languages, what may be called their granite.
12 He had a comic foundation under a tragic exterior, he asked nothing better than to frighten you, very much like those snuff-boxes which are in the shape of a pistol.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER I—HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION
Context Highlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER I—HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION
13 They generally succeed the bad ones, as day follows night, by virtue of that law of succession and of contrast which lies at the very foundation of nature, and which superficial minds call antithesis.
14 Between the chairs an old bedside rug, which displayed more foundation thread than wool, had been spread by way of a carpet.
15 No one caught a glimpse of the sinister foundation.
Example Sentence: (33 in 3 pages)
1 A body without knowledge is like a house without a foundation.
2 You may be able to get support from an arts foundation.
3 Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.
4 If you would build for your happiness a sure foundation, let the stone for the corner be a good reputation.
5 The foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
6 Truth is the foundation of all knowledge, and the cement of all societies.
7 No good building without a good foundation.
8 If they throw stones at you, don't throw back, use them to build your own foundation instead.
9 The students in middle schools should build up a solid foundation in English.
10 Meanwhile, Americanism sets a heavy cultural foundation for American romanticism with its own national characteristics.
11 The rumour is without foundation in fact.
12 At a key moment in his life, he made a judicious investment that was the foundation.
13 Agriculture is the foundation of the national economy.
14 Good order is the foundation of all things.
15 She dug the foundation with a pick and shovel.