NEGATION in a Sentence
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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.
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.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of NEGATION
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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.
2 It is negation canonized as the one positive virtue.
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.
4 Napoleon silently shook his head in negation.
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
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER
6 She was answered in the negative.
7 For months afterwards, I every day settled the question finally in the negative, and reopened and reargued it next morning.
8 I had never heard of any tutor but Biddy and Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt; so, I replied in the negative.
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.
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.
11 Charged with this commission, Betsy had gone to Anna, and brought him back a negative reply.
12 What they had said in the conversation, that he acted justly only in a negative sense, absorbed his thoughts.
13 "Honesty is only a negative qualification," he said.
14 He answered, you remember, in the negative.
15 She thanked Miss Crawford, but gave a decided negative.
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.