PROVIDENCE in a Sentence

Learn PROVIDENCE 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 PROVIDENCE, such as:
1. Nature does not provide everything we want.
2. Her recovery was a special providence of God.
3. The report was not expected to provide any answers.
4. There's a providence that watches over the deserving.
5. The skylight will provide good illumination from above.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of PROVIDENCE
providence
 n.  a manifestation of God's foresightful care for his creatures
 n.  the capital and largest city of Rhode Island; located in northeastern Rhode Island on Narragansett Bay; site of Brown University
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  There's a providence that watches over the deserving.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1. Marseilles—The Arrival.
2  So life went on for them as it does for those who are not victims of misfortune and whose activities glide along mechanically and tranquilly beneath the eye of providence.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19. The Third Attack.
3  The cause was not in Dantes, but in providence, who, while limiting the power of man, has filled him with boundless desires.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23. The Island of Monte Cristo.
4  Well, amiable Corsican, let us suppose it is providence.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 43. The House at Auteuil.
5  You mistake,' he said, 'providence does exist, only you have never seen him, because the child of God is as invisible as the parent.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 48. Ideology.
6  I will go to you, and we will fly; but from this moment until then, let us not tempt providence, let us not see each other.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 73. The Promise.
7  It is a miracle, it is a providence that we have not been discovered.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 73. The Promise.
8  Locusta and Agrippina, living at the same time, were an exception, and proved the determination of providence to effect the entire ruin of the Roman empire, sullied by so many crimes.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 80. The Accusation.
9  All the lineaments which providence traces on the surface of a nation have their parallels, sombre but distinct, in their depths, and all convulsions of the depths produce ebullitions on the surface.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—ORIGIN
10  Thanks to him, everywhere present in the carnage, like a providence, those who fell were picked up, transported to the tap-room, and cared for.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIV—PRISONER
11  He advanced with anxiety, but with calmness, seeing nothing, knowing nothing, buried in chance, that is to say, engulfed in providence.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE SEWER AND ITS SURPRISES
12  It was providence appearing in horrible guise, and his good angel springing from the earth in the form of Thenardier.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE TORN COAT-TAIL
13  A moment later, that hideous providence had retreated into the invisibility.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE TORN COAT-TAIL
14  Cosette, after having been your providence, he became mine.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITEN...
15  His death was regarded by the slaves as the result of a merciful providence.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  We admired his intellectual providence to acquire vast stores of dry information.
2  Her recovery was a special providence of God.
3  The bank is able to provide photographic evidence of who used the machine.
4  The skylight will provide good illumination from above.
5  The pavements are designed to provide easy access for people in wheelchairs.
6  The project aims to provide an analysis of children's emotions.
7  The report was not expected to provide any answers.
8  You are required by the District Attorney to provide your phone bills, both business and personal.
9  We flatter ourselves that we provide the best service in town.
10  New ways to treat arthritis may provide an alternative to painkillers.
11  Satellite photographs provide us with a lot of information about their troop movements.
12  This type of exam does not provide a fair test of the student's knowledge.
13  All our hotels have been carefully selected for the excellent value they provide.
14  Nature does not provide everything we want.
15  The Authority will provide a welfare worker to assist you.