OPERATION in a Sentence
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343 example sentences for OPERATION, such as:
1. By midnight the works were in full operation.
2. The rescue operation began on Friday afternoon.
3. It was clearly an elaborately planned operation.
4. The operation revealed the extent of the cancer.
5. The operation on the new born infant was a failure.
2. The rescue operation began on Friday afternoon.
3. It was clearly an elaborately planned operation.
4. The operation revealed the extent of the cancer.
5. The operation on the new born infant was a failure.
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Meanings and Examples of OPERATION
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operation
n. activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign)
n. a planned activity involving many people performing various actions
Classic Sentence: (133 in 9 pages)
1 And once, alter such an operation, Scarlett found her in the linen closet vomiting quietly into a towel.
2 But with the operation of what came to be known as the governor's "slander mill," the North saw only a rebellious state that needed a heavy hand, and a heavy hand was laid upon it.
3 Kennicott had taken a patient to Rochester for an operation.
4 Afterwards I wondered the less at this operation when I came to know of what fine steel the head of a harpoon is made, and how exceedingly sharp the long straight edges are always kept.
5 But in very many cases, circumstances require that the harpooneer shall remain on the whale till the whole tensing or stripping operation is concluded.
6 To make them run easily and swiftly, the axles of carriages are anointed; and for much the same purpose, some whalers perform an analogous operation upon their boat; they grease the bottom.
7 It was a collection of furnaces, fat-kettles, and oil sheds; and when the works were in full operation certainly gave forth no very pleasant savor.
8 By midnight the works were in full operation.
9 , brand him in the forehead with a hot iron and perform upon him a surgical operation with a pair of tailor's shears.
10 At this meeting divers plans of operation were suggested, though none of a character to meet the wishes of their ardent leader.
11 Just at present, however, Aunt Chloe is looking into the bake-pan; in which congenial operation we shall leave her till we finish our picture of the cottage.
12 The baby employed the intervals in pulling Tom's nose, scratching his face, and burying her fat hands in his woolly hair, which last operation seemed to afford her special content.
13 While all other preparations were going on, Simeon the elder stood in his shirt-sleeves before a little looking-glass in the corner, engaged in the anti-patriarchal operation of shaving.
14 This mentality, Lepidus would say, is indeed bred out of your mud by the operation of your sun.
15 Then with swiftness, but with absolute method, Van Helsing performed the operation.
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 The rescue operation began on Friday afternoon.
2 The operation will go ahead as soon as a suitable donor can be found.
3 They were also given the opportunity to do some operation.
4 He needed an operation to close a nasty gash in his arm.
5 An operation is beginning to try to save a species of crocodile from extinction.
6 The operation on the new born infant was a failure.
7 The boy needs a life-saving transplant operation.
8 She died of shock following an operation on her brain.
9 The operation revealed the extent of the cancer.
10 Central to the operation is a mile-deep well, dug originally to explore for oil.
11 The operation has a fifty-fifty chance of success.
12 It will be a difficult operation, whichever method you choose.
13 It was clearly an elaborately planned operation.
14 Her condition after the operation was described as 'satisfactory'.
15 This operation has never been performed in this country.