GREAT in a Sentence

Learn GREAT 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 GREAT, such as:
1. She has great potential as an artist.
2. All great truths begin as blasphemise.
3. That was a great deal too smart for me.
4. He impressed us with his great ability.
5. The area is of great botanical interest.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of GREAT
great
 a.  remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect
 a.  of major significance or importance
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The wind, which had fallen in the south, now rose with great violence in the west.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23
2  Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23
3  When younger," said he, "I believed myself destined for some great enterprise.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
4  It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
5  If he'd of lived he'd of been a great man.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
6  It was no great distance, in those days, from the prison door to the market-place.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In II. THE MARKET-PLACE
7  He won it indeed, in great part, by his sorrows.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XI. THE INTERIOR OF A HEART
8  The great vault brightened, like the dome of an immense lamp.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE MINISTER'S VIGIL
9  So great a vicissitude in his life could not at once be received as real.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XX.THE MINISTER IN A MAZE
10  But Edward had no turn for great men or barouches.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3
11  She had great satisfaction in replying that she was going into Devonshire.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 5
12  Marianne turned away in great confusion.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13
13  Elinor saw, with great uneasiness the low spirits of her friend.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 18
14  That was a great deal too smart for me.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 19
15  Yes, a great while; ever since my sister married.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 20
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  She is endowed with great musical ability.
2  He impressed us with his great ability.
3  Mother's been in a great state the whole afternoon.
4  The Middle Ages were also the great age of chivalry.
5  His novels had a great vogue ten years ago.
6  All great truths begin as blasphemise.
7  The pain was almost too great to endure.
8  Times of great change are also times of uncertainty.
9  The news caused great excitement among scientists.
10  We have accumulated a great amount of evidence.
11  His analysis of the problem showed great perception.
12  The area is of great botanical interest.
13  A great epidemic burst forth in that area.
14  It is a great art to laugh at your own misfortune.
15  She has great potential as an artist.