NATURE in a Sentence

Learn NATURE 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.
420 example sentences for NATURE, such as:
1. Peter has a happy nature.
2. Observation with me is second nature.
3. It seems to be human nature to worry.
4. He had known human nature in the East.
5. Volcanic activity is highly episodic in nature.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of NATURE
nature
 n.  the complex of emotional and intellectual attributes that determine a person's characteristic actions and reactions
 n.  a particular type of thing
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a single link of it.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
2  Observation with me is second nature.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
3  I CONFESS that I was considerably startled by this fresh proof of the practical nature of my companion's theories.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
4  A rash word or a hasty act was followed by annihilation, and yet none knew what the nature might be of this terrible power which was suspended over them.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER III. JOHN FERRIER TALKS WITH THE PROPHET
5  The hunter's mind was of a hard, unyielding nature, and the predominant idea of revenge had taken such complete possession of it that there was no room for any other emotion.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
6  Happily, I have always laid great stress upon it, and much practice has made it second nature to me.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION
7  This time, from the expression in her eyes it was apparently something in the nature of a strait waistcoat.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 7
8  He had known human nature in the East.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 8
9  Walloping, tail lashing, the reticence of nature was undone, and the barriers which should divide Man the Master from the Brute were dissolved.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
10  I, for my part, from the nature of my life, advanced infallibly in one direction and in one direction only.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
11  The evil side of my nature, to which I had now transferred the stamping efficacy, was less robust and less developed than the good which I had just deposed.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
12  With a rule and a pair of scales, and the multiplication table always in his pocket, sir, ready to weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you exactly what it comes to.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II
13  By nonsense he meant fancy; and truly it is probable she was as free from any alloy of that nature, as any human being not arrived at the perfection of an absolute idiot, ever was.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV
14  She clung to him as she should have clung to some far better nature that day, and was a little shaken in her reserved composure for the first time.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI
15  Upon a nature long accustomed to self-suppression, thus torn and divided, the Harthouse philosophy came as a relief and justification.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Volcanic activity is highly episodic in nature.
2  This new technique of artificially growing cells copies what actually happens in nature.
3  Indeed, in traditional High Church fashion, they were not ashamed to announce their belief in the divine-right nature of bishops.
4  I want to bring out the secrets of nature and apply them for the happiness of man.
5  One could argue that smoking, by its very nature, is addictive.
6  In her paper she goes on to argue that scientists do not yet know enough about the nature of the disease.
7  All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
8  They were fighting a losing battle against the forces of nature.
9  The nature of the polymer is currently a trade secret.
10  Though you cast out nature with a fork, it will still return.
11  Human nature is the most pathetic: we always dream of the horizon of a wonderful rose garden, not to enjoy today in our window open rose.
12  It seems to be human nature to worry.
13  Peter has a happy nature.
14  If you think that these transport problems can be solved by building more roads, you completely misunderstand the nature of the problem.
15  It is the nature of every man to err, but only the fool perseveres in the error.