REFLECT in a Sentence

Learn REFLECT 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.
349 example sentences for REFLECT, such as:
1. I often reflect on my schooldays.
2. One's words reflect one's thinking.
3. The buildings reflect the elegance of a bygone era.
4. The answers we give will reflect our own psychology.
5. This material absorbs the sound, and doesn't reflect it.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of REFLECT
reflect
 v.  be bright by reflecting or casting light
 v.  reflect deeply on a subject
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  When I reflect, my dear cousin," said she, "on the miserable death of Justine Moritz, I no longer see the world and its works as they before appeared to me.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
2  This passion is detrimental to me, for you do not reflect that YOU are the cause of its excess.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
3  I paused some time to reflect on all he had related and the various arguments which he had employed.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
4  Its fair lakes reflect a blue and gentle sky, and when troubled by the winds, their tumult is but as the play of a lively infant when compared to the roarings of the giant ocean.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
5  This idea plunged me into a reverie so despairing and frightful that even now, when the scene is on the point of closing before me forever, I shudder to reflect on it.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
6  My rage is unspeakable when I reflect that the murderer, whom I have turned loose upon society, still exists.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23
7  Yet it is terrible to reflect that the lives of all these men are endangered through me.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
8  I shall never reflect on my former acquaintance with your family in Devonshire without the most grateful pleasure, and flatter myself it will not be broken by any mistake or misapprehension of my actions.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 29
9  In short, I do not mean to reflect upon the behaviour of any person whom you have a regard for, Mrs. Jennings.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 37
10  And with this pleasing anticipation, she sat down to reconsider the past, recall the words and endeavour to comprehend all the feelings of Edward; and, of course, to reflect on her own with discontent.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 40
11  Long before I was enough recovered to talk, I was perfectly able to reflect.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 46
12  I began to reflect whether I had done anything to offend her; and my conscience whispered me that I had not yet told her about Dora.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 34. MY AUNT ASTONISHES ME
13  In fulfilment of the compact I have made with myself, to reflect my mind on this paper, I again examine it, closely, and bring its secrets to the light.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 48. DOMESTIC
14  It may be profitable to you to reflect, in future, that there never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, and overreach themselves.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 52. I ASSIST AT AN EXPLOSION
15  Nature sometimes mingles her effects and her spectacles with our actions with sombre and intelligent appropriateness, as though she desired to make us reflect.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XI—WHAT HE DOES
Example Sentence: (139 in 10 pages)
1  Officials admit the actual number of AIDS victims is much higher than statistics reflect.
2  They argue that the membership of the Council does not reflect the racial make-up of the city.
3  While age is clearly a highly relevant factor it does not always accurately reflect ability to understand.
4  It is interesting to reflect why European colonialism ended.
5  This material absorbs the sound, and doesn't reflect it.
6  The exhibition is designed to reflect the diversity of the nation and its regions.
7  I often reflect on my schooldays.
8  Their success does not necessarily reflect a leftward shift in politics.
9  One's words reflect one's thinking.
10  The answers we give will reflect our own psychology.
11  You have to reflect on how to answer his questions before you get to his house.
12  The buildings reflect the elegance of a bygone era.
13  The walls were whitewashed to reflect the glare of the sun.
14  I hope in years to come he will reflect on his decision.
15  He was left to reflect on the implications of his decision.