QUARTER in a Sentence
Learn QUARTER 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.
252 example sentences for QUARTER, such as:
1. A quarter of an hour passed thus.
2. The clock struck a quarter past three.
3. He entered, then came out a quarter of an hour later.
4. L'Epingle Noire was already plotting in his own quarter.
5. Behind the house was a garden, a quarter of an acre in extent.
2. The clock struck a quarter past three.
3. He entered, then came out a quarter of an hour later.
4. L'Epingle Noire was already plotting in his own quarter.
5. Behind the house was a garden, a quarter of an acre in extent.
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Meanings and Examples of QUARTER
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quarter
n. one of the four major division of the compass
v. provide housing for (military personnel)
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 She took him by the arm, and walked with him about a quarter of a mile into the country; they arrived at a lonely house, surrounded with gardens and canals.
2 Cunegonde asked a quarter of an hour to consider of it, to consult the old woman, and to take her resolution.
3 He was a quarter Spaniard, born of a mongrel in Tucuman; he had been singing-boy, sacristan, sailor, monk, pedlar, soldier, and lackey.
4 Behind the house was a garden, a quarter of an acre in extent.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM
5 This quarter of an acre, so poorly planted, so encumbered with mean buildings and sheds, was dear to him, and satisfied his wants.
6 He entered, then came out a quarter of an hour later.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
7 L'Epingle Noire was already plotting in his own quarter.
8 The streets of the Latin quarter, filled with throngs of students and grisettes, saw the beginning of their dream.
9 There was, at Montfermeil, near Paris, during the first quarter of this century, a sort of cook-shop which no longer exists.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER
10 As his factory was a centre, a new quarter, in which there were a good many indigent families, rose rapidly around him; he established there a free dispensary.
11 "It is impossible to wait another quarter of an hour," said Madeleine to the peasants, who were staring at him.
12 At the expiration of a quarter of an hour she left her sewing and went to read the Thenardiers' letter once more on the staircase.
13 She remained thus for a quarter of an hour, her eyes riveted on the door, motionless and apparently holding her breath.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE PROOF
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE PROOF
14 The clock struck a quarter past three.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE PROOF
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE PROOF
15 A quarter of an hour passed thus.
Example Sentence: (42 in 3 pages)
1 The new company, to be called Sony BMG, will have roughly a quarter of global sales and will rival Universal Music for the number one spot.
2 A sixty-eight year old dealer had his warehouse raided this week and the police confiscated nearly a million and a quarter bangers, rockets and firecrackers.
3 Demand for Taiwanese goods likely will accelerate from the second quarter, as strong Asian demand offsets the effects of a U.S. slowdown.
4 Their clubs failed to reach the quarter finals of the European champion's league, and the national teams was knocked out of the World Cup by south Korea.
5 Marius and his fellow students hurriedly improvised a rough barricade to block police access to the students' quarter.
6 Many receive government food rations, and about a quarter are living in welfare camps.
7 The history of the past quarter century illustrates how a President may aggrandize his power to act aggressively in international affairs without considering the wishes of Congress.
8 When the opposing hockey team scored its third goal only minutes into the first quarter, the home team's spirits seemed to flag.
9 "Conditions will probably only start to retract from the middle of the first quarter of 2007," Downing said.
10 When we were ready to shove off, we were a quarter of a mile below the island.
11 To him a beaver is a quarter of a fur coat for his wife or a nice hat.
12 Almost a quarter of the world's mammals face extinction within thirty years, according to a United Nations report on the state of the global environment.
13 In a country where a quarter of students say guns are easily accessible at home, expecting any measure to make a school invulnerable is unrealistic.
14 When we was ready to shove off we was a quarter of a mile below the island, and it was pretty broad day; so I made Jim lay down in the canoe and cover up with the quilt, because if he set up people could tell he was a nigger a good ways off.
15 I made two mile and a half, and then struck out a quarter of a mile or more towards the middle of the river.