GAVE in a Sentence

Learn GAVE 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 GAVE, such as:
1. I gave up eating meat a few months ago.
2. She gave an accurate account of the case.
3. I am positive that I gave you his address.
4. She gave an exuberant account of the party.
5. He gave a inflammatory address to the audience.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of GAVE
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The night was perfectly still, and the air so dry and pure that it gave little sensation of cold.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
2  Denis laughed, and gave the horse a cut that brought him quickly abreast of her retreating figure.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
3  But now all desire for change had vanished, and the sight of the little enclosure gave him a warm sense of continuance and stability.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
4  The kitchen was a poor place, not "spruce" and shining as his mother had kept it in his boyhood; but it was surprising what a homelike look the mere fact of Zeena's absence gave it.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
5  The cat rubbed itself ingratiatingly against her, and she said "Good Pussy," stooped to stroke it and gave it a scrap of meat from her plate.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
6  She gave him a last nod of sympathy while her son chirped to the horse; and Ethan, as she drove off, stood in the middle of the road and stared after the retreating sleigh.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
7  Across its frozen surface, from the farther bank, a single hill rising against the western sun threw the long conical shadow which gave the lake its name.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
8  Thus appealed to, Jeems gave up further pretense of not having overheard the conversation and furrowed his black brow.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
9  He hadn't been in Atlanta more than twice since the house party he gave last year at Twelve Oaks.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
10  Gerald helped his wife into the carriage and gave orders to the coachman to drive carefully.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
11  His five tall brothers gave him good-by with admiring but slightly patronizing smiles, for Gerald was the baby and the little one of a brawny family.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
12  James and Andrew listened to his story patiently but they gave him little encouragement.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
13  These people, drawn from many different places and with many different backgrounds, gave the whole life of the County an informality that was new to Ellen, an informality to which she never quite accustomed herself.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
14  This certainty of the morrow gave zest and enthusiasm to life, and the County people enjoyed life with a heartiness that Ellen could never understand.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
15  She quickly brought order, dignity and grace into Gerald's household, and she gave Tara a beauty it had never had before.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  We gave them two tons over and above the amount agreed to.
2  He gave a very vivid and often shocking account/description of his time in prison.
3  She gave an accurate account of the case.
4  She gave him a factual account of the chronology of her brief liaison.
5  She gave an exuberant account of the party.
6  She gave a clear and lucid account of her plans for the company's future.
7  He gave us a blow-by-blow account of the incident.
8  Speaking through an interpreter, a Japanese fisherman gave his account of the tidal wave.
9  He gave a vivid account of his life as a fighter pilot.
10  She gave a clear, factual account of the attack.
11  You not once gave me one time to turn the head, I always in smiled actually to you.
12  The President gave an address to the nation over the radio.
13  I am positive that I gave you his address.
14  He gave a inflammatory address to the audience.
15  I gave up eating meat a few months ago.