PERFECTION in a Sentence

Learn PERFECTION 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.
375 example sentences for PERFECTION, such as:
1. You want perfection all at once.
2. His body was honed to perfection.
3. There are no perfect relationships.
4. You used to know how, to perfection.
5. She laid her dreams of perfection aside.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of PERFECTION
perfection
 n.  the act of making something perfect
 n.  an ideal instance; a perfect embodiment of a concept
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The dress set off to perfection the seventeen-inch waist, the smallest in three counties, and the tightly fitting basque showed breasts well matured for her sixteen years.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  She had been on the front porch and he had ridden up the long avenue, dressed in gray broadcloth with a wide black cravat setting off his frilled shirt to perfection.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
3  There was a glamor to it, a perfection and a completeness and a symmetry to it like Grecian art.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
4  You used to know how, to perfection.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
5  You want perfection all at once.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
6  She laid her dreams of perfection aside.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
7  But four parts are altogether necessary to the perfection of melody.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2
8  And if he himself could believe in his virtuous perfection, he conceived that there would be small trouble in convincing all others.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
9  At last, they were all seated at breakfast, while Mary stood at the stove, baking griddle-cakes, which, as they gained the true exact golden-brown tint of perfection, were transferred quite handily to the table.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
10  Her form was the perfection of childish beauty, without its usual chubbiness and squareness of outline.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
11  We can't have perfection; and if I keep him, I must sustain his administration as a whole, even if there are, now and then, things that are exceptionable.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
12  A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquillity.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
13  Marianne began now to perceive that the desperation which had seized her at sixteen and a half, of ever seeing a man who could satisfy her ideas of perfection, had been rash and unjustifiable.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10
14  Once for all; I loved her none the less because I knew it, and it had no more influence in restraining me than if I had devoutly believed her to be human perfection.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXIX
15  By dint of this ingenious scheme, his gloves were got on to perfection.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LV
Example Sentence: (165 in 12 pages)
1  His body was honed to perfection.
2  Have no fear of perfection ---- you'll never reach it.
3  It was fatiguing sometimes to try to measure up to her standard of perfection.
4  Physical perfection in a human being is exceedingly rare.
5  You are hypercritical in your demands for perfection; we all make mistakes.
6  The Patriots are currently a level of perfection that we like to see here.
7  There are no perfect relationships.
8  Allow me to congratulate you on the arrival of the New Year and to extend to you all my best wishes for your perfect health and lasting prosperity.
9  They spent an immense amount of time getting the engine into perfect condition.
10  This vase would be perfect but for a few small flaws in its base.
11  The soldiers showed perfect discipline under the fire of the enemy.
12  Mum's still got our pram - it's very old, but it's in perfect condition.
13  A wedding is the perfect subject for video.
14  The eye test shows she has perfect vision.
15  I've had my eyes tested and the report says that my vision is perfect.