PRIME in a Sentence

Learn PRIME 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.
111 example sentences for PRIME, such as:
1. By children now in their prime.
2. To love and labor in their prime.
3. I very much agree with the prime minister.
4. Smoking is the prime cause of lung disease.
5. 'A prime plant,' observed Master Charley Bates.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of PRIME
prime
 a.  of or relating to or being an integer that cannot be factored into other integers
 n.  a number that has no factor but itself and 1
Classic Sentence: (42 in 3 pages)
1  He was more than six feet high, was in the prime of life, had small feet for his height, wore coarse, square-toed boots and smoked a Trichinopoly cigar.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
2  The hermit, as if wishing to answer to the confidence of his guest, threw back his cowl, and showed a round bullet head belonging to a man in the prime of life.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
3  His charitable kindness had been rearing a prime comfort for himself.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
4  'A prime plant,' observed Master Charley Bates.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
5  It was the prime and vigour of the year; all things were glad and flourishing.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
6  "He was the last you'd have expected to drop off in the prime of life," said Humphrey.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 5 Perplexity among Honest People
7  He has always, however, been a prime favourite with the racing public, and has never yet disappointed them, so that even at those odds enormous sums of money have been laid upon him.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In I. The Adventure of Silver Blaze
8  I came out of this age of ours, this ripe prime of the human race, when Fear does not paralyse and mystery has lost its terrors.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In VII
9  He seldom spoke to Laurie, but he looked at him often, and a shadow would pass across his face, as if regretting his own lost youth, as he watched the young man in his prime.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-THREE
10  By children now in their prime.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-SIX
11  To love and labor in their prime.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-SIX
12  There is no man living, however strong and in his prime, who could move it from its place, for it is a marvellous curiosity which I made with my very own hands.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XXIII
13  Summer was already past its prime, when Edgar reluctantly yielded his assent to their entreaties, and Catherine and I set out on our first ride to join her cousin.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
14  He was then past his prime, being twenty-eight years and three quarters old, of which he had reigned about seven in great felicity, and generally victorious.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER II.
15  At last we entered the palace, and proceeded into the chamber of presence, where I saw the king seated on his throne, attended on each side by persons of prime quality.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER II.
Example Sentence: (69 in 5 pages)
1  The prime minister delivered the keynote address at the conference.
2  I very much agree with the prime minister.
3  In a dramatic gesture, the prime minister refused to attend the meeting.
4  The prime minister succeeded in surviving the challenge to his authority.
5  The prime minister aired some ideas about pepping up trade in the region.
6  Lineages of descent from a female ancestor are thus prime substructures composing a macaque troop.
7  He was a prime mover in the bid to get better pay for West Indian cricketers.
8  The party's rank and file are beginning to question the prime minister's choice of advisers.
9  Can-ada's prime minister will be hoping to play honest broker in the row between the United States and Japan.
10  The prime minister may decide to call an early election.
11  He's a prime candidate to captain the team this season.
12  The care of the environment is of prime importance.
13  Smoking is the prime cause of lung disease.
14  The resignation of the prime minister will cause much confusion.
15  The prime minister narrowly survived a leadership challenge.