HISTORY in a Sentence

Learn HISTORY 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.
366 example sentences for HISTORY, such as:
1. If you wish, I will tell you your whole history.
2. He is the author of two books on French history.
3. Let me premise my argument with a bit of history.
4. The film gives a crude caricature of African history.
5. She used her family's history as a base for her novel.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of HISTORY
history
 n.  the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future
 n.  the aggregate of past events
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  If you wish, I will tell you your whole history.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VII
2  Meanwhile he begged his guest to consider himself at home, and, after seating him in an armchair, made preparations to listen to the newcomer's discourse on natural history.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I
3  And he related to his guest the whole history of his acquaintanceship and subsequent rupture with the General.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I
4  In short, every possible item of evidence was exhumed, and the whole of his previous history investigated.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
5  Put it to the test and cast your eyes upon the history of mankind.
Notes from the Underground By Fyodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: VIII
6  In short, one may say anything about the history of the world--anything that might enter the most disordered imagination.
Notes from the Underground By Fyodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: VIII
7  There is no need to appeal to universal history to prove that; only ask yourself, if you are a man and have lived at all.
Notes from the Underground By Fyodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: IX
8  And then I must call your attention to the history teacher.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT I
9  Now here is a Lombard bond and a letter; it is a premium for the man who writes a history of Suvorov's wars.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXVIII
10  "It's ancient history," said another, guessing that it referred to a former war.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XV
11  The highest wisdom is not founded on reason alone, not on those worldly sciences of physics, history, chemistry, and the like, into which intellectual knowledge is divided.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II
12  The more we try to explain such events in history reasonably, the more unreasonable and incomprehensible do they become to us.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER I
13  Every act of theirs, which appears to them an act of their own will, is in an historical sense involuntary and is related to the whole course of history and predestined from eternity.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER I
14  To understand the laws of this continuous movement is the aim of history.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER I
15  It needs no critical exertion to reduce utterly to dust any deductions drawn from history.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER I
Example Sentence: (156 in 11 pages)
1  The book gives an admirably succinct account of the technology and its history.
2  But the same kind of eclipse did not affect that other great area devoted to reconstructing the history of life: paleontology.
3  The film gives a crude caricature of African history.
4  This guide book points out the main facts of early American history.
5  The book is a kind of allegory of Latin American history.
6  His analysis was rooted in a somewhat tendentious reading of French history.
7  Our history teacher is always generalising;he never deals with anything in detail.
8  Our history teacher is always generalizing; he never deals with anything in detail.
9  Let me premise my argument with a bit of history.
10  She studied architecture and art history at the university.
11  The art of Biblical miniature painting has a history of a thousand years.
12  She then invited him to Atlanta to lecture on the history of art.
13  Taylor combined great knowledge with an irreverent attitude to history.
14  He is the author of two books on French history.
15  She used her family's history as a base for her novel.