NEGATIVE in a Sentence

Learn NEGATIVE 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 NEGATIVE, such as:
1. He gave us a negative answer.
2. She was answered in the negative.
3. I never got the hang of negative numbers.
4. The crisis had a negative effect on trade.
5. He answered, you remember, in the negative.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of NEGATIVE
negative
 a.  less than zero
 a.  having a negative charge
Classic Sentence: (36 in 3 pages)
1  She was answered in the negative.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 26
2  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
3  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
4  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
5  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
6  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
7  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
8  "Honesty is only a negative qualification," he said.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 17
9  He answered, you remember, in the negative.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION
10  She thanked Miss Crawford, but gave a decided negative.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
11  Oliver, whose eyes had glistened at the mention of meat, and who was trembling with eagerness to devour it, replied in the negative; and a plateful of coarse broken victuals was set before him.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
12  "I beg your pardon, madam, this is your seat;" and though she immediately drew back with a decided negative, he was not to be induced to sit down again.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
13  I have made some inquiries myself in the last few days, but the results have, I fear, been negative.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6. Baskerville Hall
14  He was flaxen-haired and handsome, in a washed-out negative fashion, with frightened blue eyes, and a clean-shaven face, with a weak, sensitive mouth.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In II. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NORWOOD BUILDER
15  "Purely negative as yet," my friend answered.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND STAIN
Example Sentence: (42 in 3 pages)
1  We received a negative answer to our request.
2  He gave us a negative answer.
3  Children's negative feelings often get acted out in bad behaviour.
4  The crisis had a negative effect on trade.
5  Baker argues that his trial was tainted by negative publicity.
6  Never a negative acknowledge why it is impossible.
7  The word "cheap" has negative overtones.
8  She used cognitive therapy on her client to try to inhibit those negative thoughts which were damaging his self-esteem.
9  The coach was criticized for his negative tactics.
10  People whose blood contains the rhesus factor are rhesus positive and those whose blood does not contain it are rhesus negative.
11  My drinking was starting to have a negative effect on my work.
12  Pleasure and pain are the wealth of life, to escape its negative, as some of the face of courage, in fact, be able to recall a blessing.
13  Consumers generally place more weight on negative information than on the positive when deciding what to buy.
14  I never got the hang of negative numbers.
15  The industry is trying to shed its negative image.