GREATNESS in a Sentence

Learn GREATNESS 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.
267 example sentences for GREATNESS, such as:
1. His spirit has greatly activated the audience.
2. It was associated in their minds with greatness.
3. The threat of attack has been greatly exaggerated.
4. No, Scarlett, the seeds of greatness were never in me.
5. A nation must take certain risks to achieve greatness.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of GREATNESS
greatness
 n.  unusual largeness in size or extent or number
 n.  the property possessed by something or someone of outstanding importance or eminence
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  No, Scarlett, the seeds of greatness were never in me.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
2  It was unprotected and unprotecting; there was no dignity in it nor any hope of greatness.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
3  Carol had found the dignity and greatness which had failed her in Main Street.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
4  She was conscious of an unbroken sweep of land to the Rockies, to Alaska, a dominion which will rise to unexampled greatness when other empires have grown senile.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
5  Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16. The Ship.
6  "It was the Lenni Lenape," returned Magua, affecting to bend his head in reverence to their former greatness.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 29
7  It was associated in their minds with greatness.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
8  They seemed to think that the greatness of their masters was transferable to themselves.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
9  Oh, Anna Sergyevna,' cried Arkady, 'I shall think it the greatness happiness.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
10  This day the horrible appearance of the battlefield overcame that strength of mind which he thought constituted his merit and his greatness.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXXVIII
11  That speech was full of dignity and greatness as Napoleon understood it.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XIX
12  And it occurs to no one that to admit a greatness not commensurable with the standard of right and wrong is merely to admit one's own nothingness and immeasurable meanness.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER XVIII
13  And there is no greatness where simplicity, goodness, and truth are absent.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER XVIII
14  To a lackey no man can be great, for a lackey has his own conception of greatness.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER V
15  Natasha would have had no doubt as to the greatness of Pierre's idea, but one thing disconcerted her.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER XVI
Example Sentence: (57 in 4 pages)
1  Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
2  He may not always achieve greatness but at least he's a trier.
3  A nation must take certain risks to achieve greatness.
4  Her early achievements were prophetic of her future greatness.
5  Self-confidence is the first requisite to human greatness.
6  Her greatness lies in her deep understanding of human nature.
7  Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events.
8  The apotheosis of a Roman emperor was designed to insure his eternal greatness: people would worship at his altar forever.
9  A child's access to schooling varies greatly from area to area.
10  These problems have been greatly alleviated by the passing of the new Act.
11  The threat of attack has been greatly exaggerated.
12  This latest attack has greatly heightened fears of an all-out war.
13  His spirit has greatly activated the audience.
14  The levels of trade union and political activism in this country have greatly declined in the past fifteen years.
15  Since joining the Common Market, Britain's trade with Europe has greatly increased.