PERFORM in a Sentence

Learn PERFORM 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.
420 example sentences for PERFORM, such as:
1. Be slow to promise and quick to perform.
2. Computers can perform a variety of tasks.
3. A host of musicians will perform at the festival.
4. Wizards usually use magic wands to perform spells.
5. In your new job you will perform a variety of functions.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of PERFORM
perform
 v.  carry out or perform an action
 v.  give a performance (of something)
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  You ought to know what miracles a woman can perform when she has a bit of cash.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIV
2  It seemed wonderful to him that any one should perform with such careless ease the difficult task of making tea in public in a lurching train.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
3  Miss Pragg, the secretary, had been called away, and there would be notes and dinner-cards to write, lost addresses to hunt up, and other social drudgery to perform.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
4  They belonged to the vast group of human automata who go through life without neglecting to perform a single one of the gestures executed by the surrounding puppets.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
5  After all, that task would be easier to perform, now that his personal stake in it was annulled.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 14
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.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 84. Pitchpoling.
7  , brand him in the forehead with a hot iron and perform upon him a surgical operation with a pair of tailor's shears.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In II
8  So long as we have wage slavery," answered Schliemann, "it matters not in the least how debasing and repulsive a task may be, it is easy to find people to perform it.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 31
9  The dangerous weapons were brushed aside by the still nervous arm of the veteran, or fell of themselves, after menacing an act that it would seem no one had courage to perform.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
10  Endeavoring, then, to collect his ideas, he prepared to perform that species of incantation, and those uncouth rites, under which the Indian conjurers are accustomed to conceal their ignorance and impotency.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 25
11  In selecting another to perform the office of reclaiming his highly prized rifle, the scout had lost sight of none of his habitual caution.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 31
12  The days between Christmas and New Year's day are allowed as holidays; and, accordingly, we were not required to perform any labor, more than to feed and take care of the stock.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
13  I am thy creature, and I will be even mild and docile to my natural lord and king if thou wilt also perform thy part, the which thou owest me.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
14  Do not think that I shall be slow to perform this sacrifice.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
15  In this manner, Hester Prynne came to have a part to perform in the world.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In V. HESTER AT HER NEEDLE
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The UN must perform a difficult balancing act between the two sides in the conflict.
2  Wizards usually use magic wands to perform spells.
3  In your new job you will perform a variety of functions.
4  Computers can perform a variety of tasks.
5  Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
6  His council had had to perform miracles on a tiny budget.
7  How hard the swimmers work now will determine how they perform in the Olympics.
8  Norton Disk Doctor can perform miracles on a dodgy hard disk.
9  Those who are quick to promise are generally slow to perform.
10  To say little and perform much is the characteristic of great minds.
11  He can perform an astonishing variety of acts, including mime and juggling.
12  The Cabinet as an institution does not have an adequate bureaucratic infrastructure to enable it to perform a coordinating role.
13  Be slow to promise and quick to perform.
14  A host of musicians will perform at the festival.
15  You will be asked to perform some standard manoeuvres during your driving test.