ORDER in a Sentence

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420 example sentences for ORDER, such as:
1. They handed the flower around in quick order.
2. The toys are available by mail order from Opi Toys.
3. Teamwork is required in order to achieve these aims.
4. She was prepared to lie in order to achieve her ends.
5. She decided to be a nun in order to avoid meeting him.
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 Meanings and Examples of ORDER
order
 v.  give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority
 n.  established customary state (especially of society)
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  In order to render me more tractable, he brought me to this country house.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In VIII
2  The antechamber, indeed, was only encrusted with rubies and emeralds, but the order in which everything was arranged made amends for this great simplicity.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XVIII
3  Then without losing time, he and his companions went on board a galley, in order to search on the banks of the Propontis for his Cunegonde, however ugly she might have become.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XXVII
4  In the winter they break this bread up with an axe, and they soak it for twenty-four hours, in order to render it eatable.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
5  Every bishop who possesses the least influence has about him his patrol of cherubim from the seminary, which goes the round, and maintains good order in the episcopal palace, and mounts guard over monseigneur's smile.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME
6  I understood that we must retire, in order to allow this traveller to go to sleep, and we both went up stairs.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV—DETAILS CONCERNING THE CHEESE-DAIRIES OF PONTA...
7  In order to attempt to form an idea of it, it is necessary to think of the most violent of things in the presence of the most gentle.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XI—WHAT HE DOES
8  His youth, which was packing up for departure long before its time, beat a retreat in good order, bursting with laughter, and no one saw anything but fire.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—A DOUBLE QUARTETTE
9  There is a throng of institutions in the old social order, which one comes across in this fashion as one walks about outdoors, and which have no other reasons for existence than the above.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER
10  It is not all in all sufficient to be wicked in order to prosper.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—THE LARK
11  He had separated the work-rooms in order to separate the sexes, and so that the women and girls might remain discreet.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MADELEINE
12  God shows them to us in order to induce us to reflect.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON
13  Life and the social order have said their last word for her.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XI—CHRISTUS NOS LIBERAVIT
14  On entering the order of Saint Vincent de Paul, she had taken the name of Simplice by special choice.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—SISTER SIMPLICE
15  Sister Simplice, on her entrance into the order, had had two faults which she had gradually corrected: she had a taste for dainties, and she liked to receive letters.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—SISTER SIMPLICE
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The company opened an account abroad, in order to circumvent the tax laws.
2  Teamwork is required in order to achieve these aims.
3  She was prepared to lie in order to achieve her ends.
4  Campaigners have said that they are prepared to defy the law in order to achieve their aims.
5  The organization is turning to political agitation in order to achieve its aims.
6  He was prepared to risk everything in order to achieve his ambition.
7  They might well be prepared to do you harm in order to achieve their purpose.
8  In order to validate the agreement between yourself and your employer, you must both sign it.
9  He is due to appear before magistrates in connection with a public order offence.
10  The local authority can apply for a supervision order for the child.
11  They handed the flower around in quick order.
12  The establishment of new international economic order is the essence of his article.
13  The author deliberately breaks the narrative continuity in order to confound the reader's expectations.
14  The toys are available by mail order from Opi Toys.
15  She decided to be a nun in order to avoid meeting him.