LIMIT in a Sentence

Learn LIMIT 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.
258 example sentences for LIMIT, such as:
1. Don't put a limit on anything.
2. It is beyond the limit of my ability.
3. No curious observer passed that limit.
4. There must be a limit, even to rebuses.
5. There must be a limit, even to dinners.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of LIMIT
limit
 n.  the greatest possible degree of something
 n.  final or latest limiting point
Classic Sentence: (160 in 11 pages)
1  If the infinite had no person, person would be without limit; it would not be infinite; in other words, it would not exist.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
2  There must be a limit, even to rebuses.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYES
3  There must be a limit, even to dinners.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYES
4  Two strongholds of slavery; but in the first, deliverance possible, a legal limit always in sight, and then, escape.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IX—CLOISTERED
5  At a certain depth, the excavations are no longer penetrable by the spirit of civilization, the limit breathable by man has been passed; a beginning of monsters is possible.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—MINES AND MINERS
6  Lower down, confusedly, at the limit which separates the indistinct from the invisible, one perceives other gloomy men, who perhaps do not exist as yet.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—MINES AND MINERS
7  Although no absolute satisfaction is given to philosophy, either to circumscribe the cause or to limit the effect, the contemplator falls into those unfathomable ecstasies caused by these decompositions of force terminating in unity.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS
8  No curious observer passed that limit.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER I—FROM THE RUE PLUMET TO THE QUARTIER SAINT-DENIS
9  When the limit of endurance is overstepped, the most imperturbable virtue is disconcerted.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER I—A DRINKER IS A BABBLER
10  Gillenormand, dreamed of a happiness without limit clothed in satin and velvet.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER ...
11  The limit of shrill sounds perceptible can be overleaped, as well in the case of the mind as in that of the ear.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN
12  Atlanta had been scandalized enough when Scarlett, a woman, began operating the sawmill but, as time went by, the town decided there was no limit to what she would do.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
13  In her set such gossip was not unusual, and a handsome girl who flirted with a married man was merely assumed to be pressing to the limit of her opportunities.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
14  She had long since raised the dose to its highest limit, but tonight she felt she must increase it.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
15  In general, the same remark, only within a less wide limit, applies to the solitaries and hermits among the matured, aged sperm whales.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 44. The Chart.
Example Sentence: (98 in 7 pages)
1  It is beyond the limit of my ability.
2  We have decided to waive the age - limit for applicants in your case.
3  There is a limit to the amount of pain we can bear.
4  There is a limit to the amount of money I can afford.
5  Biodegradable packaging helps to limit the amount of harmful chemicals released into the atmosphere.
6  Don't put a limit on anything.
7  Live as though you intend to live forever, and work as though your strength were limit less.
8  The Pentagon did not set an upper limit on troop deployments during the war.
9  We've set a time limit of ten minutes for each child's turn on the trampoline.
10  Make sure you keep within the new lower speed limit.
11  It will be sterilized when it is beyond the limit to its storage life.
12  The department may overshoot its cash limit this year.
13  The new speed limit does not solve the problem, but it is a step in the right direction.
14  Slow down - you're breaking the speed limit.
15  The committee put forward a proposal to reduce the time limit.