GENERATION in a Sentence
Learn GENERATION 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.
232 example sentences for GENERATION, such as:
1. The older generation doesn't like pop music.
2. A lie begets a lie till they come to generation.
3. A generation ago genetic codes were certainly unknown.
4. People of my generation all think the same way about this.
5. The environmental impact of power generation is being assessed.
2. A lie begets a lie till they come to generation.
3. A generation ago genetic codes were certainly unknown.
4. People of my generation all think the same way about this.
5. The environmental impact of power generation is being assessed.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of GENERATION
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generation
n. all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age
n. the production of heat or electricity
Classic Sentence: (86 in 6 pages)
1 For her generation the newspaper was a book; and, as her father-in-law had dropped the Times, she took it and read: "A horse with a green tail."
2 Later, another generation had planted fruit trees, which in time had spread their arms widely across the red orange weathered brick.
3 endlessly old, built up of layers of disillusion, going down in him generation after generation, like geological strata; and at the same time he was forlorn like a child.
4 All the great words, it seemed to Connie, were cancelled for her generation: love, joy, happiness, home, mother, father, husband, all these great, dynamic words were half dead now, and dying from day to day.
5 Connie felt again the tightness, niggardliness of the men of her generation.
6 Her face was averted, and she was crying blindly, in all the anguish of her generation's forlornness.
7 The younger generation were utterly unconscious of the old England.
8 I tell you, every generation breeds a more rabbity generation, with india rubber tubing for guts and tin legs and tin faces.
9 "Every generation has its improvements," said Miss Crawford, with a smile, to Edmund.
10 So, she appropriated the greater part of the weekly stipend to her own use, and consigned the rising parochial generation to even a shorter allowance than was originally provided for them.
11 During that time I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended with the last generation.
12 Yet may we shelter ourselves in the infinite goodness of Providence, which would not forever punish the innocent beyond that third or fourth generation which is threatened in Holy Writ.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In Chapter 2. The Curse of the Baskervilles
Context Highlight In Chapter 2. The Curse of the Baskervilles
13 If each generation die and leave ghosts, he argued, the world at last will get overcrowded with them.
14 On both their mother's and their father's side they were Georgians, north Georgians, only a generation away from pioneers.
15 But Atlanta was of her own generation, crude with the crudities of youth and as headstrong and impetuous as herself.
Example Sentence: (146 in 10 pages)
1 People of my generation all think the same way about this.
2 Zidane has become the poster child for a whole generation of French-born youths of North African extraction.
3 A generation ago genetic codes were certainly unknown.
4 Faulkner has been hailed as the greatest American novelist of his generation.
5 David Mamet has long been considered the leading American playwright of his generation.
6 The country's attitude toward government is harsher than it was a generation ago.
7 The older generation prefer a darker and more traditional kind of clothing.
8 Alarmists usually regard the rising generation as a falling one.
9 A lie begets a lie till they come to generation.
10 Her films had an immeasurable effect on a generation of Americans.
11 The environmental impact of power generation is being assessed.
12 Schools help to acculturate the second generation of immigrants.
13 Manufacturers are working on a new generation of cheaper digital radios.
14 The idea of handing down his knowledge from generation to generation is important to McLean.
15 The older generation doesn't like pop music.