PRINCIPAL in a Sentence
Learn PRINCIPAL 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.
194 example sentences for PRINCIPAL, such as:
1. The principal range runs east to west.
2. Here are the names of the principal ones.
3. It was done without the principal's authority.
4. Nigeria is our principal trading partner in Africa.
5. Keys are available on application to the principal.
2. Here are the names of the principal ones.
3. It was done without the principal's authority.
4. Nigeria is our principal trading partner in Africa.
5. Keys are available on application to the principal.
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Meanings and Examples of PRINCIPAL
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principal
n. the major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange; buys and sells for his own account
a. most important element
Classic Sentence: (160 in 11 pages)
1 They deputed two of their principal people with all expedition to inquire into the truth of the matter; these executed their commission like men of sense, and soon returned with good news.
2 There are loopholes only in the south wall, as the principal attack came from that quarter.
3 He traversed the line of the principal outposts, halting here and there to talk to the sentinels.
4 When the coach set out for Lagny a few minutes later, it did not encounter him in the principal street of Chelles.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGE...
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGE...
5 It was this old woman, ornamented with the name of the principal lodger, and in reality intrusted with the functions of portress, who had let him the lodging on Christmas eve.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUN...
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUN...
6 The principal building, taken in its entirety, was a juxtaposition of hybrid constructions which, viewed from a bird's-eye view, outlined, with considerable exactness, a gibbet laid flat on the ground.
7 Be near the principal altar, with your iron bar, at eleven o'clock.
8 The "principal lodger" of Jean Valjean's day was dead and had been replaced by another exactly like her.
9 The principal one, and that which was invariable, was to keep his door absolutely closed during the day, and never to receive any one whatever except in the evening.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—RULE: RECEIVE NO ONE EXCEPT IN THE EVENING
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—RULE: RECEIVE NO ONE EXCEPT IN THE EVENING
10 Here are the names of the principal ones.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
11 He gave three francs a month to the old principal tenant to come and sweep his hole, and to bring him a little hot water every morning, a fresh egg, and a penny roll.
12 My principal object is to satisfi the desire which progressively.
13 This remarkable epoch is decidedly circumscribed and is beginning to be sufficiently distant from us to allow of our grasping the principal lines even at the present day.
14 The House of Bourbon was to France the illustrious and bleeding knot in her history, but was no longer the principal element of her destiny, and the necessary base of her politics.
15 All the problems that the socialists proposed to themselves, cosmogonic visions, revery and mysticism being cast aside, can be reduced to two principal problems.
Example Sentence: (34 in 3 pages)
1 It was done without the principal's authority.
2 Keys are available on application to the principal.
3 Further information is available on application to the principal.
4 The principal range runs east to west.
5 The principal thing in this world is to keep one's soul aloft.
6 Today the principal tools for prospecting the brain are electrical.
7 The citizen ought to be able to find the basic law, the principal law, in statutory form.
8 The college principal promised to look into the matter.
9 It is always one of our principal policies to develop agriculture in a big way.
10 Swahili is the principal lingua franca in East Africa.
11 Cities have always acted as the principal focus of political life.
12 Farm produce, including fruits and grains, was their principal export.
13 Her principal objective was international fame as a scientist.
14 Independence Day is one of America's principal legal holidays.
15 Nigeria is our principal trading partner in Africa.