NEGATION in a Sentence

Learn NEGATION 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.
78 example sentences for NEGATION, such as:
1. He gave us a negative answer.
2. She was answered in the negative.
3. The crisis had a negative effect on trade.
4. He answered, you remember, in the negative.
5. Napoleon silently shook his head in negation.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of NEGATION
negation
 n.  a negative statement; a statement that is a refusal or denial of some other statement
 n.  (logic) a proposition that is true if and only if another proposition is false
Classic Sentence: (36 in 3 pages)
1  This attribute was common to most of Lily's set: they had a force of negation which eliminated everything beyond their own range of perception.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
2  It is negation canonized as the one positive virtue.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
3  Connie felt that she herself didn't really, not really touch him; perhaps there was nothing to get at ultimately; just a negation of human contact.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
4  Napoleon silently shook his head in negation.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXXIV
5  The negation of the infinite leads straight to nihilism.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER
6  She was answered in the negative.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 26
7  For months afterwards, I every day settled the question finally in the negative, and reopened and reargued it next morning.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XVI
8  I had never heard of any tutor but Biddy and Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt; so, I replied in the negative.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XVIII
9  On my replying to both these questions in the negative, it occurred to me that I fell again in her good opinion; but she concealed the fact gracefully, and invited me to dinner next day.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 25. GOOD AND BAD ANGELS
10  The applicability or non-applicability of the Christian precept to his own case was too difficult a question to be discussed lightly, and this question had long ago been answered by Alexey Alexandrovitch in the negative.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 17
11  Charged with this commission, Betsy had gone to Anna, and brought him back a negative reply.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 23
12  What they had said in the conversation, that he acted justly only in a negative sense, absorbed his thoughts.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 11
13  "Honesty is only a negative qualification," he said.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 17
14  He answered, you remember, in the negative.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION
15  She thanked Miss Crawford, but gave a decided negative.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
Example Sentence: (42 in 3 pages)
1  The author boxed the compass of negation in his article.
2  This theory is a negation of all traditional beliefs.
3  Unintelligible legislation is the negation of the rule of law and of parliamentary democracy.
4  Sorry, strictly speaking, the negation is applied to the verb and the verb to the subject.
5  We received a negative answer to our request.
6  He gave us a negative answer.
7  Children's negative feelings often get acted out in bad behaviour.
8  The crisis had a negative effect on trade.
9  Baker argues that his trial was tainted by negative publicity.
10  Never a negative acknowledge why it is impossible.
11  The word "cheap" has negative overtones.
12  She used cognitive therapy on her client to try to inhibit those negative thoughts which were damaging his self-esteem.
13  The coach was criticized for his negative tactics.
14  People whose blood contains the rhesus factor are rhesus positive and those whose blood does not contain it are rhesus negative.
15  My drinking was starting to have a negative effect on my work.