IDEAL in a Sentence

Learn IDEAL 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.
144 example sentences for IDEAL, such as:
1. He's the ideal husband for her.
2. She's the ideal candidate for the job.
3. Progress is the goal, the ideal is the type.
4. Either candidate would be ideal for the job.
5. Fantasy and ideal vision but end the deadlock.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of IDEAL
ideal
 n.  model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal
 a.  conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence; embodying an ideal
Classic Sentence: (98 in 7 pages)
1  Certainly, these powerful reveries have their moral utility, and by these arduous paths one approaches to ideal perfection.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIV—WHAT HE THOUGHT
2  Style is the form of the ideal; rhythm is its movement.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—FOUR AND FOUR
3  This ideal was realized in the living person of Sister Simplice: she had never been young, and it seemed as though she would never grow old.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—SISTER SIMPLICE
4  She was an ideal market-porter dressed in woman's clothes.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS
5  The ideal of oppression was realized by this sinister household.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS
6  necessary that the ideal should be breathable, drinkable, and eatable to.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER
7  It is the ideal which has the right to say: Take, this.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER
8  Progress is the goal, the ideal is the type.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER
9  This child of the puddle is also the child of the ideal.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—THE OLD SOUL OF GAUL
10  It imposes its caricatures as well as its ideal on people; the highest monuments of human civilization accept its ironies and lend their eternity to its mischievous pranks.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—TO SCOFF, TO REIGN
11  These bare feet, these bare arms, these rags, these ignorances, these abjectnesses, these darknesses, may be employed in the conquest of the ideal.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE FUTURE LATENT IN THE PEOPLE
12  He was an officiating priest and a man of war; from the immediate point of view, a soldier of the democracy; above the contemporary movement, the priest of the ideal.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
13  Affiliated and initiated, they sketched out the ideal underground.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
14  Poverty instantly lays material life bare and renders it hideous; hence inexpressible bounds towards the ideal life.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—MARIUS GROWN UP
15  Revery, which is utterly spontaneous, takes and keeps, even in the gigantic and the ideal, the form of our spirit.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—POVERTY A GOOD NEIGHBOR FOR MISERY
Example Sentence: (46 in 4 pages)
1  The town is an ideal base for touring the area.
2  Behind the fear of an ideal you, you create the fear, you can beat him.
3  The scheme offers an ideal opportunity for youngsters to get training.
4  The trip to Paris will be an ideal opportunity to practise my French.
5  Fantasy and ideal vision but end the deadlock.
6  Many men feel their body shape doesn't live up to the stereotype of the ideal man.
7  She's the ideal candidate for the job.
8  Either candidate would be ideal for the job.
9  A different vision of the company might draw upon the democratic ideal which inspires the relation of the citizen to the state.
10  He wondered again about its black color; that was ideal, of course, for absorbing solar energy.
11  From the later fourth century, this ideal offered puzzled Christians a means to define their identity without ambiguity.
12  The establishment of the socialist system to we opened a reach the ideal state of roads, and the ideal into reality needs to rely on our hard work.
13  The hotel is ideal for families with young children.
14  He's the ideal husband for her.
15  The hotel's size makes it ideal for large conferences.