REGULATION in a Sentence

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121 example sentences for REGULATION, such as:
1. He has regulated all his charities.
2. Accidents will happen in the best regulated families.
3. They are calling for tighter regulation of the industry.
4. The regulation has no application to this particular case.
5. He had a military carriage, however, and regulation side whiskers.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of REGULATION
regulation
 n.  an authoritative rule
 n.  a principle or condition that customarily governs behavior
Classic Sentence: (59 in 4 pages)
1  He had a military carriage, however, and regulation side whiskers.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
2  And while their manners were thus the subject of sarcastic observation, the untaught Saxons unwittingly transgressed several of the arbitrary rules established for the regulation of society.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
3  No, in her uncle's house there would have been a consideration of times and seasons, a regulation of subject, a propriety, an attention towards everybody which there was not here.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
4  The same remark he considered to apply to the regulation mode of cutting the hair: which he held to be decidedly unlawful.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
5  To dance with a man is to concentrate a twelvemonth's regulation fire upon him in the fragment of an hour.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 5 Through the Moonlight
6  It flew some colors which procured for it the regulation salute of eleven guns, which it returned, shot for shot; total, twenty-two.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN...
7  The gates of the Paris cemeteries closed, at that epoch, at sundown, and this being a municipal regulation, the Vaugirard cemetery was bound by it like the rest.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE ...
8  Lieutenant Theodule stood before her, making the regulation salute.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—SOME PETTICOAT
9  Fourthly: it is inexplicable why the special regulation of the prison.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—JAVERT
10  But the sea in those old times heaved, swelled, and foamed very much at its own will, or subject only to the tempestuous wind, with hardly any attempts at regulation by human law.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XXI. THE NEW ENGLAND HOLIDAY
11  'Your regulation is rather awkward to strangers,' said Miss Murdstone.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14. MY AUNT MAKES UP HER MIND ABOUT ME
12  Two hours she devoted to her diary; two to working by herself in the kitchen-garden; and one to the regulation of her accounts.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
13  It was a small group still, with heterogeneous figures suspended in large unpeopled spaces; but Lily did not take long to learn that its regulation was no longer in Mr. Stancy's hands.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 9
14  He has regulated all his charities.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME
15  , regulated the Temple, preached the crusade, performed two hundred and fifty miracles during his lifetime, and as many as thirty-nine in one day.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—MOTHER INNOCENTE
Example Sentence: (62 in 5 pages)
1  There's absolutely no regulation of cigarettes to make sure that they don't include poisonous substances.
2  Where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.
3  They are calling for tighter regulation of the industry.
4  It is a regulation of the football club that dogs are not allowed inside.
5  That change should occur within about three years for large carriers, while small companies will be free of rate regulation immediately.
6  The regulation has no application to this particular case.
7  Infringement of this regulation would automatically rule you out of the championship.
8  Ships were registered abroad to circumvent employment and safety regulation.
9  It is so warped by regulation that it is hard to envisage what a totally free-market system would be like, or whether it would be better.
10  These people have good intentions to make a profit, but they are too greedy, which is why we have regulation.
11  The new bulk mailing postal regulation will supersede the old one. If you continue to follow the old regulation, your bulk mailing will be returned to you.
12  I wouldn't say the protection of mediocrity is the goal of regulation as much as an unintended consequence.
13  If regulation is bad then lets get rid of the police department as well.
14  No talking at meals! No mingling with the servants! Miss Minchin was a martinet who insisted that the schoolgirls in her charge observe each regulation to the letter.
15  Accidents will happen in the best regulated families.