REFORMER in a Sentence

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209 example sentences for REFORMER, such as:
1. Carol was certain that she was a great reformer.
2. The reformer's fame spread all over the country.
3. Vida was, and always would be, a reformer, a liberal.
4. If you must know, you're not a sound reformer at all.
5. He again pledged to forge ahead with his plans for reform.
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 Meanings and Examples of REFORMER
reformer
 n.  a disputant who advocates reform
 n.  an apparatus that reforms the molecular structure of hydrocarbons to produce richer fuel
Classic Sentence: (48 in 4 pages)
1  Carol was certain that she was a great reformer.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  She romanticized herself not as a great reformer but as the wife of a country physician.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
3  Vida was, and always would be, a reformer, a liberal.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
4  If you must know, you're not a sound reformer at all.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
5  The history of culture explains to us the impulses and conditions of life and thought of a writer or a reformer.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER IV
6  de Vaublanc, the reformer of the Institute by a coup d'etat, the distinguished author of numerous academicians, ordinances, and batches of members, after having created them, could not succeed in becoming one himself.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE YEAR 1817
7  And I let them stay said; and never thought no more about reforming.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI.
8  The expanding forces of life within her choked the desire for reforming.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
9  Here it seems to me not out of place to cite instances of the Romans seeking assistance from religion in reforming their institutions and in carrying out their warlike designs.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII.
10  Of course, a minute or so later I would realise wrathfully that it was all a lie, a revolting lie, an affected lie, that is, all this penitence, this emotion, these vows of reform.
Notes from the Underground By Fyodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: V
11  You, for instance, want to cure men of their old habits and reform their will in accordance with science and good sense.
Notes from the Underground By Fyodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: IX
12  Pierre was staying at Prince Vasili Kuragin's and sharing the dissipated life of his son Anatole, the son whom they were planning to reform by marrying him to Prince Andrew's sister.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII
13  Every violent reform deserves censure, for it quite fails to remedy evil while men remain what they are, and also because wisdom needs no violence.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VII
14  General Campan's division did not seize the first fortification but was driven back, for on emerging from the wood it had to reform under grapeshot, of which Napoleon was unaware.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXVII
15  He cried, he pleaded for forgiveness, promised to reform over and over again, and then received his dismissal, feeling that he had won but an imperfect forgiveness and established but a feeble confidence.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
Example Sentence: (161 in 11 pages)
1  Existing arrangements contain latent functions that can be neither seen nor replaced by the reformer.
2  A reformer is a person who wishes to change a system to improve it.
3  Salman, 79, is "a stalwart of the royal family" who is "viewed as a pragmatic and cautious reformer, much like his predecessor," says CNN's Becky Anderson in Abu Dhabi.
4  The reformer's fame spread all over the country.
5  The government has contemplated reforming the entire tax system.
6  The prime minister rejected any idea of reforming the system.
7  The Government gave priority to reforming the legal system.
8  These relate to her previous business activities in the gas industry, which she now says she is reforming.
9  The dean's talk about reforming the college admissions system was only an academic discussion.
10  Give us some ideas that are tenable, that the Republicans could handle and live with when it comes to reforming health care in this country.
11  Henry Paulson told an audience that reforming the financial and banking system would be the only way to ensure that China's economic miracle is sustainable over the long term.
12  He puts his administration at risk if he doesn't come through on these promises for reform.
13  He again pledged to forge ahead with his plans for reform.
14  What he has tried to expound in this article bears on a key problem in our economic reform.
15  The President and his supporters are almost certain to read this vote as a mandate for continued economic reform.