INSTRUCTION in a Sentence

Learn INSTRUCTION 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.
244 example sentences for INSTRUCTION, such as:
1. My early instruction was all out of place.
2. I had to refer to the instruction booklet.
3. Porque ensenas, For instruction meet.
4. Adversity comes with instruction in its hand.
5. Each candidate is given instruction in safety.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of INSTRUCTION
instruction
 n.  a message describing how something is to be done
 n.  (computer science) a line of code written as part of a computer program
Classic Sentence: (186 in 13 pages)
1  But Miss Bart, it appeared, really did want to know about Americana; and moreover, she was already sufficiently informed to make the task of farther instruction as easy as it was agreeable.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
2  And my own son reproves me because I haven't given him religious instruction.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
3  The escape was soon known; and the whole tribe crowded, in a body, around the council-lodge, impatiently awaiting the instruction of their chiefs.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 27
4  My early instruction was all out of place.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
5  Whilst I was saddened by the thought of losing the aid of my kind mistress, I was gladdened by the invaluable instruction which, by the merest accident, I had gained from my master.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
6  Certain it was that he gave her unlimited scope in all her benevolent efforts for the comfort, instruction, and improvement of her servants, though he never took any decided part in them himself.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
7  Miss Ophelia began with Topsy by taking her into her chamber, the first morning, and solemnly commencing a course of instruction in the art and mystery of bed-making.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
8  Sisteron, for the gratuitous instruction of poor.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME
9  He said, moreover, "Teach those who are ignorant as many things as possible; society is culpable, in that it does not afford instruction gratis; it is responsible for the night which it produces."
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
10  Porque ensenas, For instruction meet.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—THOLOMYES IS SO MERRY THAT HE SINGS A SPANISH ...
11  The hatred of instruction for the children of the people was a dogma.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—A BIT OF HISTORY
12  Thus the associations for the liberty of the press, for individual liberty, for the instruction of the people against indirect taxes.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ...
13  No study is more efficacious and more fecund in instruction.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—ROOTS
14  Equality has an organ: gratuitous and obligatory instruction.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT O...
15  I come to you, most worthy Constantine Thedorovitch, for instruction, and again for instruction, and beg of you to assuage my thirst with an exposition of the truth as it is.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
Example Sentence: (58 in 4 pages)
1  English is the medium of instruction in many African countries.
2  The video provides instruction on how to operate the computer.
3  Each candidate is given instruction in safety.
4  Adversity comes with instruction in its hand.
5  First we have to lift the level of instruction.
6  Two lawyers were told not to leave the building but no reason for this instruction was given.
7  I had to refer to the instruction booklet.
8  The instruction manual includes a section on troubleshooting to help you with any simple problems you might have with the television.
9  A Seminar is, generally, a form of academic instruction, either at a university or offered by a commercial or professional organization.
10  All computers execute the instruction as expected.
11  To her instruction I owed the best part of my acquirements; her friendship and society had been my continual solace.
12  On a military level, Iran provides Hamas fighters with top military training and instruction.
13  Skype online Chinese instruction is an outgrowth of Computer Assisted Language Learning.
14  Painter and portraitist, Adrian Gottlieb, offers instruction in painting methods developed from the Renaissance through the early 20th century.
15  You get 30 chapters with instructive illustrations, including an easy-to-follow, step-by-step, six-week basic training program.