MOUNT in a Sentence

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243 example sentences for MOUNT, such as:
1. Her anxiety mounted month by month.
2. The camera was mounted on a sturdy tripod.
3. She mounted the horse in one easy movement.
4. They mounted an effective opposition to the bill.
5. He was mounted on the finest horse you could ever see.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of MOUNT
mount
 v.  copulate with
 v.  go up or advance
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The next moment they sank to her flushed cheeks and she began to mount the stairs ahead of Zeena.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
2  The sudden heat of his tone made her colour mount again, not with a rush, but gradually, delicately, like the reflection of a thought stealing slowly across her heart.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
3  "There's none in the County can touch you, nor in the state," he informed his mount, with pride, the brogue of County Meath still heavy on his tongue in spite of thirty-nine years in America.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
4  For of these moonlight nights, it was his wont to mount to the main-mast head, and stand a look-out there, with the same precision as if it had been day.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 51. The Spirit-Spout.
5  No more monkey-jackets and tarpaulins for me; I must mount a swallow-tail, and drive down a beaver; so.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 121. Midnight.—The Forecastle Bulwarks.
6  No," she answered; "Ellen is afraid to mount the ladder.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXIX
7  Her bosom rose and fell as she breathed, and her excitement seemed to mount higher and higher, and then to sink away again, like a boat tossing upon ocean surges.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 28
8  Laying Alice on one of the horses, he made a sign to Cora to mount the other.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
9  Then he described the nature and position of the mount whither he had led such captives as had fallen into their hands.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 24
10  "Your master, I s'pose, don't keep no dogs," said Haley, thoughtfully, as he prepared to mount.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
11  Then he began slowly to mount the street, pausing every step or two and putting his hand to his brow like a man in mental perplexity.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER SEARCH FOR MR. HYDE
12  And he caused one of his attendants to mount his own led horse, and give that upon which he had hitherto ridden to the stranger, who was to serve for a guide.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
13  I am like John-a-Duck's mare, that will let no man mount her but John-a-Duck.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
14  It is situated on a mount at one angle of the inner court, and forms a complete circle of perhaps twenty-five feet in diameter.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
15  He soon had the nails out: then he pulled out the backboards, then the enlargement itself, in its solid white mount.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
Example Sentence: (33 in 3 pages)
1  Following the guidance, we had to thread some complex passages, and mount a staircase before we reached her apartment.
2  I honor endurance, perseverance, industry, talent; because these are the means by which men achieve great ends and mount to lofty eminence.
3  Following the superintendent's guidance, we had to thread some intricate passages, and mount a staircase before we reached her apartment.
4  Republicans acknowledged that they had little choice but to mount an all-out offensive on the Democratic nominee.
5  The opposition is getting ready to mount a powerful attack on the government.
6  The engine is mounted in the middle to achieve a more even weight distribution.
7  They have mounted a propaganda campaign against Western governments.
8  They mounted an effective opposition to the bill.
9  The film was taken by a camera mounted on a hang - glider.
10  The camera was mounted on a sturdy tripod.
11  A car suddenly mounted the pavement to avoid a vehicle coming in the opposite direction.
12  He was mounted on the finest horse you could ever see.
13  Her anxiety mounted month by month.
14  She mounted the horse in one easy movement.
15  The National Gallery mounted an exhibition of Danish painting.