PROFESSION in a Sentence

Learn PROFESSION 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.
178 example sentences for PROFESSION, such as:
1. He is a lawyer by profession.
2. He had a deep mistrust of the legal profession.
3. Harry expects to follow the profession of lawyer.
4. Medicine is, by common assent, a good profession.
5. What is the use of having brains in our profession.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of PROFESSION
profession
 n.  the body of people in a learned occupation
 n.  an open avowal (true or false) of some belief or opinion
Classic Sentence: (134 in 9 pages)
1  Let him, on meeting a fellow-mortal, learn at a glance to distinguish the history of the man, and the trade or profession to which he belongs.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
2  What is the use of having brains in our profession.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
3  Lanyon, you remember your vows: what follows is under the seal of our profession.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER DR. LANYON'S NARRATIVE
4  From the House of Commons to the House of Correction, there is a general profession of morality, except among our people; it really is that exception which makes our people quite reviving.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X
5  In other respects, his profession and situation had taught him a ready command over his countenance, which he could contract at pleasure into solemnity, although its natural expression was that of good-humoured social indulgence.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
6  Jesters and jugglers were not awanting, nor was the occasion of the assembly supposed to render the exercise of their profession indecorous or improper.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
7  Yes, the profession is well enough under two circumstances: if it make the fortune, and there be discretion in spending it; but, in short, it is not a favourite profession of mine.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
8  The profession, either navy or army, is its own justification.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
9  Simplicity, indeed, is beyond the reach of almost every actress by profession.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
10  I could better bear to lose her because not rich enough, than because of my profession.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
11  'Well, well,' said the Dodger, recurring to the point from which they had strayed: with that mindfulness of his profession which influenced all his proceedings.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
12  He had been lucky in his profession; but spending freely, what had come freely, had realized nothing.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
13  Captain Wentworth, with five-and-twenty thousand pounds, and as high in his profession as merit and activity could place him, was no longer nobody.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
14  His profession was all that could ever make her friends wish that tenderness less, the dread of a future war all that could dim her sunshine.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
15  To make up for lost time he studied indefatigably, for he wished to enter his new profession with the least possible delay.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 1 The Rencounter by the Pool
Example Sentence: (44 in 3 pages)
1  We want all our students to achieve within their chosen profession.
2  It would appear that the legal profession is the nearest thing to a recession-proof industry.
3  The new drug has become the subject of heated debate within the medical profession.
4  Her ambition and dogged determination ensured that she rose to the top of her profession.
5  Such talented person echelon and specialized troop, for profession in rare.
6  Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
7  My profession had an important influence in the formation of my character and temperament.
8  Medicine is, by common assent, a good profession.
9  He had a deep mistrust of the legal profession.
10  My profession touches our national defense very closely.
11  His work was important in helping establish dentistry as a separate profession.
12  Increased recruitment of women engineers will help correct the gender imbalance in the profession.
13  He is a lawyer by profession.
14  The lawyer reached a position of prominence in her profession at an early age.
15  Harry expects to follow the profession of lawyer.