REFLECTIVE in a Sentence

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349 example sentences for REFLECTIVE, such as:
1. Martha looked reflective again.
2. I often reflect on my schooldays.
3. One's words reflect one's thinking.
4. Stick reflective tape on your school bag.
5. I walked on in a reflective mood to the car.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of REFLECTIVE
reflective
 a.  devoted to matters of the mind
 a.  capable of physically reflecting light or sound
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Martha looked reflective again.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
2  You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
3  Hitherto he had found, in her presence and her talk, the aesthetic amusement which a reflective man is apt to seek in desultory intercourse with pretty women.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
4  One could see that, as far as it had gone, her life was very complete on its reflective side.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 3 The First Act in a Timeworn Drama
5  Porthos pretended that this occupation was proof of a reflective and contemplative organization, and he had brought him away without any other recommendation.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 7 THE INTERIOR* OF THE MUSKETEERS
6  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
7  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
8  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
9  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
10  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
11  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
12  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
13  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
14  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
15  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
Example Sentence: (139 in 10 pages)
1  This rope is woven with a maximum amount of reflective tracers--which will make it shimmer in the night.
2  Please notice that reflective mirror; you have no secret in this room.
3  Fossils preserved in sedimentary rocks will display that era's primary forms, reflective of that era's ecology and life's adaptations to best exploit it.
4  Stick reflective tape on your school bag.
5  Avoid pans with a shiny, reflective base as the heat will be reflected back.
6  I walked on in a reflective mood to the car.
7  Officials admit the actual number of AIDS victims is much higher than statistics reflect.
8  They argue that the membership of the Council does not reflect the racial make-up of the city.
9  While age is clearly a highly relevant factor it does not always accurately reflect ability to understand.
10  It is interesting to reflect why European colonialism ended.
11  This material absorbs the sound, and doesn't reflect it.
12  The exhibition is designed to reflect the diversity of the nation and its regions.
13  I often reflect on my schooldays.
14  Their success does not necessarily reflect a leftward shift in politics.
15  One's words reflect one's thinking.