REPRESENTATIVE in a Sentence

Learn REPRESENTATIVE 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.
351 example sentences for REPRESENTATIVE, such as:
1. He is representative of a big firm.
2. I sent my representative to the meeting.
3. The tiger is a common representative of the cat family.
4. I was the sole representative of the general practitioners.
5. This group is not representative of the population at large.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of REPRESENTATIVE
representative
 n.  an item of information that is typical of a class or group
 a.  being or characteristic of government by representation in which citizens exercise power through elected officers and representatives
Classic Sentence: (193 in 13 pages)
1  Also, every evening would see placed upon the drawing-room table a fine bronze candelabrum, a statuette representative of the Three Graces, a tray inlaid with mother-of-pearl, and a rickety, lop-sided copper invalide.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER II
2  Beside it hung a huge, grimy oil painting representative of some flowers and fruit, half a water melon, a boar's head, and the pendent form of a dead wild duck.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VI
3  Also," requested Chichikov, "I should be glad if you would send for the accredited representative of a certain lady landowner with whom I have done business.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VII
4  In general, we Russians do not make a good show at representative assemblies, for the reason that, unless there be in authority a leading spirit to control the rest, the affair always develops into confusion.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER X
5  For herself she did not care where she remained or what happened to her, but she felt herself the representative of her dead father and of Prince Andrew.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER X
6  Napoleon at the battle of Borodino fulfilled his office as representative of authority as well as, and even better than, at other battles.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXVIII
7  "They are burning for the combat," declared this representative of the Russian nation, "and to prove to Your Majesty by the sacrifice of their lives how devoted they are."
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER III
8  For the representative of the Russian people, after the enemy had been destroyed and Russia had been liberated and raised to the summit of her glory, there was nothing left to do as a Russian.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER XI
9  Nothing remained for the representative of the national war but to die, and Kutuzov died.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER XI
10  On the same day the Chief of Police came to Pierre, inviting him to send a representative to the Faceted Palace to recover things that were to be returned to their owners that day.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER XVIII
11  Mrs. Marbury was a neighbor and friend of Carol's sister; Mr. Marbury a traveling representative of an insurance company.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
12  They made a specialty of sandwich-salad-coffee lap suppers, and they regarded Carol as their literary and artistic representative.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
13  As Duncan could only act as the representative of the commandant of the fort, the ceremonies which should have accompanied a meeting between the heads of the adverse forces were, of course, dispensed with.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 15
14  So saying, the scout returned and shook David cordially by the hand; after which act of friendship he immediately left the lodge, attended by the new representative of the beast.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 26
15  "Our representative, our spokesman," she sneered.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 13
Example Sentence: (158 in 11 pages)
1  Rawls's representative agent is portrayed as a disembodied party devoid of any substantive human characteristics except rationality.
2  He is representative of a big firm.
3  Exhibits include a widely representative collection of railway rolling stock.
4  The tiger is a common representative of the cat family.
5  Call our toll-free number and speak to a customer service representative.
6  First it will examine the consultative arrangements which exist between a number of key government agencies and representative bodies.
7  The task of the union representative is to fight on behalf of the members.
8  I was the sole representative of the general practitioners.
9  The legal profession is starting to be less elitist and more representative.
10  I sent my representative to the meeting.
11  This group is not representative of the population at large.
12  He was invited to sit on the rostrum as a representative of extramural instructors.
13  In both cases therefore a system of representative democracy is adopted.
14  I did not designate Mr. Irons as my representative, and as far as I know he acted on his own initiative and spoke for himself.
15  Of course this time the object of their scorn is a representative of the real America that Democrats pretend to represent.