RELATIONSHIP in a Sentence

Learn RELATIONSHIP 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.
168 example sentences for RELATIONSHIP, such as:
1. In any relationship, you have to make compromises.
2. This gaudy relationship did him little good at school.
3. So began the relationship that at first startled Atlanta.
4. A special relationship exists between the sitter and the artist.
5. We have renewed our friendly relationship with Western countries.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of RELATIONSHIP
relationship
 n.  a state of connectedness between people (especially an emotional connection)
 n.  a state involving mutual dealings between people or parties or countries
Classic Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1  Demi paused to consider the new relationship before he compromised himself by the rash acceptance of a bribe, which took the tempting form of a family of wooden bears from Berne.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-THREE
2  I sought in her countenance and features a likeness to Mr. Rochester, but found none: no trait, no turn of expression announced relationship.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
3  It was not known that Wickham had a single relationship with whom he kept up any connection, and it was certain that he had no near one living.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 48
4  Elizabeth honestly and heartily expressed her delight in the prospect of their relationship.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 55
5  Sincerely wish you happy in your choice, and it shall not be my fault if we are not always good friends, as our near relationship now makes proper.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 49
6  I was very much surprised that Mr. Peggotty was not Ham's father, and began to wonder whether I was mistaken about his relationship to anybody else there.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. I HAVE A CHANGE
7  She might be firm, but only by relationship, and in an inferior and tributary degree.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE
8  And immediately this glance established a living relationship between living men.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 17
9  Eustacia remained silent for a minute, and she said, "We are in a strange relationship today."
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 6 A Conjuncture, and Its Result upon the Pedestrian
10  This gaudy relationship did him little good at school.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty
11  The two species that had resulted from the evolution of man were sliding down towards, or had already arrived at, an altogether new relationship.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In VII
12  So began the relationship that at first startled Atlanta.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
13  He had with him a daughter between five and six years of age, together with a lady who seemed to claim relationship to both, and to have the little one especially under her charge.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
14  Madame," replied Villefort "I can truly say that I have always entertained a high respect for my father, because, to the natural feeling of relationship was added the consciousness of his moral superiority.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 60. The Telegraph.
15  One would hardly have guessed the close relationship that existed between them.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 5
Example Sentence: (149 in 10 pages)
1  There are certain things that are absolutely basic to the maintenance of a good relationship.
2  Although the relationship is no longer as concerned about it, but how can you say broken off.
3  In any relationship, you have to make compromises.
4  A special relationship exists between the sitter and the artist.
5  Young people assume that if you are in a steady relationship, you don't have to worry about HIV.
6  They assume they have a more or less equal relationship with the author.
7  With both countries experiencing economic revolutions, it might be time to redraw the traditional relationship.
8  The President's official visit marks the start of a more fraternal relationship between the two countries.
9  We have renewed our friendly relationship with Western countries.
10  The man with whom she maintains a relationship provides nothing by way of support.
11  If the relationship doesn't make you a better person, then you are with the wrong one.
12  The best way to forget a relationship is another new beginning a relationship.
13  A key task is to get pupils to perceive for themselves the relationship between success and effort.
14  The relationship between attorneys and their clients is based on confidentiality.
15  The media has been speaking in glowing terms of the relationship between the two countries.