NEGATIVE in a Sentence
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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.
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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Meanings and Examples of NEGATIVE
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negative
a. less than zero
a. having a negative charge
Classic Sentence: (36 in 3 pages)
1 She was answered in the negative.
2 For months afterwards, I every day settled the question finally in the negative, and reopened and reargued it next morning.
3 I had never heard of any tutor but Biddy and Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt; so, I replied in the negative.
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.
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.
6 Charged with this commission, Betsy had gone to Anna, and brought him back a negative reply.
7 What they had said in the conversation, that he acted justly only in a negative sense, absorbed his thoughts.
8 "Honesty is only a negative qualification," he said.
9 He answered, you remember, in the negative.
10 She thanked Miss Crawford, but gave a decided negative.
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.
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.
13 I have made some inquiries myself in the last few days, but the results have, I fear, been negative.
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.
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15 "Purely negative as yet," my friend answered.
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.