INSIDE in a Sentence

Learn INSIDE 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.
322 example sentences for INSIDE, such as:
1. The tree trunk was hollow inside.
2. The inside of the box was lined with silk.
3. A sudden gust of wind blew his umbrella inside out.
4. You must see the inside of a house before you buy it.
5. The bag broke under the weight of the bottles inside it.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of INSIDE
inside
 ad.  in reality
 a.  being or applying to the inside of a building
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  "I have had so much to do inside the house," the detective said evasively.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
2  This begins to look genuine, I thought, and having seen her safely inside, I perched myself behind.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR
3  The door was locked on the inside, but we put our shoulders to it, and knocked it in.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
4  The lights inside the house had all been extinguished, and from the darkened window Ferrier peered over the fields which had been his own, and which he was now about to abandon for ever.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE
5  I did so; and became at once conscious of an extraordinary throbbing and commotion which was going on inside.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
6  The walls of his chest seemed to thrill and quiver as a frail building would do inside when some powerful engine was at work.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
7  Well, I waited for a quarter of an hour, or more, when suddenly there came a noise like people struggling inside the house.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
8  When I had him fairly inside my cab, my heart jumped so with joy that I feared lest at this last moment my aneurism might go wrong.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
9  Clover made a sort of wall round them with her great foreleg, and the ducklings nestled down inside it and promptly fell asleep.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I
10  That was theirs too, but they were frightened to go inside.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II
11  But a moment later his face disappeared from the window and there was the sound of a tremendous drumming of hoofs inside the van.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IX
12  Bart put his finger inside his mouth and projected the upper row outside his lips.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 2
13  From the outside of his home he gloomily passed to the inside, with suspended breath and with a slow footstep.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII
14  It was another red brick house, with black outside shutters, green inside blinds, a black street-door up two white steps, a brazen door-plate, and a brazen door-handle full stop.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I
15  She broke into a passion of tears and lamentations: Stephen Blackpool was written in his own hand on the inside.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI
Example Sentence: (112 in 8 pages)
1  Take my advice – string along with me, I know this business inside out.
2  Her heart had begun to pound inside her chest like a captive animal.
3  The unfortunate animal was locked inside the house for a week.
4  The inside of a van was as good a place as any to hold a kidnap victim.
5  You must ask permission before taking any photographs inside the church.
6  Those who foolishly seek power by riding on the back of the tiger and up inside.
7  If the orange is going to be bad ----for the best of us are bad sometimes ---it begins to be bad from the outside, not from the inside.
8  The tree trunk was hollow inside.
9  The bag broke under the weight of the bottles inside it.
10  The windmill's sails are wooden vanes whose angle can be adjusted from inside the mill.
11  A sudden gust of wind blew his umbrella inside out.
12  The inside of the box was lined with silk.
13  They must have had someone on the inside to help them break in.
14  You must see the inside of a house before you buy it.
15  Troops tried to set up a lookout post inside a refugee camp.