OFFICIAL in a Sentence

Learn OFFICIAL 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.
411 example sentences for OFFICIAL, such as:
1. I only knew the official version of events.
2. The king decorated his official for ability.
3. The disgraced official was divested of all authority.
4. This is the official version of the painter's biography.
5. Portfolio in hand, this official stood waiting respectfully.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of OFFICIAL
official
 a.  (of a church) given official status as a national or state institution
 n.  a worker who holds or is invested with an office
Classic Sentence: (203 in 14 pages)
1  In a word, he was always a gentleman of excellent manners, and every official in the place felt pleased when he saw him enter the door.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER I
2  Either the climate hindered operations or the materials used were of the kind which prevents official edifices from ever rising higher than the basement.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER XI
3  He was unused to receiving visitors, and for the moment conceived the new arrival to be a Government official, sent to question him concerning an abortive society to which he had formerly belonged.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I
4  The latter, on appearing, was seen to have the air, half of a peasant, half of an official.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
5  Clerical pens slaved, and brains skilled in legal casus toiled; for each official had the artist's liking for the curved line in preference to the straight.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
6  Portfolio in hand, this official stood waiting respectfully.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
7  They are more likely to listen to a plain man than to an official.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
8  The young men started living together in one set of rooms, under the remote supervision of a cousin on their mother's side, Ilya Kolyazin, an official of high rank.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
9  Meanwhile Nikolai Petrovitch had already, in his parents' lifetime and to their no slight chagrin, had time to fall in love with the daughter of his landlord, a petty official, Prepolovensky.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
10  Matvy Ilyitch received Arkady with the good-nature, we might even call it playfulness, characteristic of the enlightened higher official.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
11  The following means, among others, is in great vogue, 'is quite a favourite,' as the English say; a high official suddenly ceases to understand the simplest words, assuming total deafness.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
12  Matvy Ilyitch was a higher official all the same, though he was reckoned a liberal.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
13  She talked with equal ease to her partner and to the grand official, softly turned her head and eyes, and twice laughed softly.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
14  I was lying when I said just now that I was a spiteful official.
Notes from the Underground By Fyodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: I
15  I, for instance, genuinely despised my official work and did not openly abuse it simply because I was in it myself and got a salary for it.
Notes from the Underground By Fyodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: I
Example Sentence: (208 in 14 pages)
1  The king decorated his official for ability.
2  According to the official figures, over one thousand people died during the revolution.
3  According to one official more than a hundred people have been arrested.
4  The industry remains in the doldrums, according to official figures out today.
5  The announcement came in a bald statement from the official news agency.
6  I'm a bit chary of using a travel agency that doesn't have official registration.
7  The news is almost certainly true although it is not official.
8  The disgraced official was divested of all authority.
9  The president will remain in office until the official handover in April.
10  A UN official said aid programs will be suspended until there's adequate protection for relief convoys.
11  Some journalists have cast doubt on the authenticity of the official version of events.
12  I only knew the official version of events.
13  This is the official version of the painter's biography.
14  Several eyewitnesses' accounts differed considerably from the official version of events.
15  The President's official visit marks the start of a more fraternal relationship between the two countries.