LESSON in a Sentence

Learn LESSON 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.
242 example sentences for LESSON, such as:
1. The bell rang for the lesson to begin.
2. This lesson is divided into four units.
3. One man's fault is another man's lesson.
4. He illustrates the lesson with a picture.
5. This lesson adds to the value of the book.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of LESSON
lesson
 n.  the significance of a story or event
 n.  punishment intended as a warning to others
Classic Sentence: (178 in 12 pages)
1  And scaring the darkies and teaching the Scallawags a lesson is one of them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
2  If such a warning had ever been needful, the years had taught her a salutary lesson, and she flattered herself that she now knew how to adapt her pace to the object of pursuit.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
3  You say your friends have persuaded you to play cards with them; well, they may as well learn a lesson too.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
4  She had a first lesson in shooting, in keeping her eyes open, not wincing, understanding that the bead at the end of the barrel really had something to do with pointing the gun.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
5  As sinful men, it is a lesson to us all, because it is a story of the sin, hard-heartedness, suddenly awakened fears, the swift punishment, repentance, prayers, and finally the deliverance and joy of Jonah.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9. The Sermon.
6  But observe his prayer, and learn a weighty lesson.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9. The Sermon.
7  This, shipmates, this is that other lesson; and woe to that pilot of the living God who slights it.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9. The Sermon.
8  Nor has this thy whale sunwards turned his dying head, and then gone round again, without a lesson to me.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 116. The Dying Whale.
9  Almost every day she came running across the prairie to have her reading lesson with me.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IV
10  When the lesson was over, we used to go up to the watermelon patch behind the garden.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IV
11  ONE AFTERNOON WE WERE having our reading lesson on the warm, grassy bank where the badger lived.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VI
12  Frances taught us to dance that winter, and she said, from the first lesson, that Antonia would make the best dancer among us.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VI
13  One day Samson was standing thus while Miss Nellie was playing her lesson to her music-teacher.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VII
14  Often the mothers brought their fancywork and sat on the shady side of the tent during the lesson.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VIII
15  I propped my book open and stared listlessly at the page of the 'Georgics' where tomorrow's lesson began.'
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: II
Example Sentence: (64 in 5 pages)
1  One man's fault is another man's lesson.
2  Expericence is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.
3  This lesson adds to the value of the book.
4  The bell rang for the lesson to begin.
5  The point of the lesson is to compare the two countries.
6  His sailing instructor fell overboard and drowned during a lesson.
7  The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
8  If you fail,don't forget to learn your lesson.
9  This lesson is divided into four units.
10  The accident taught him an important lesson.
11  It was an object lesson in how to use television as a means of persuasion.
12  Let this accident be an object lesson in the dangers of drinking and driving.
13  He illustrates the lesson with a picture.
14  We can sum up the main point of the lesson in three sentences.
15  Clear, easy-to-follow teaching aids Each Resource Book provides clear, easy-to-follow lesson menus for you to use in class.