SIGNIFICANCE in a Sentence

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275 example sentences for SIGNIFICANCE, such as:
1. This fact has little significance for us.
2. We attached no significance to his statement.
3. That marriage lacked the dual significance it should have had.
4. The media have grossly inflated the significance of this meeting.
5. Western diplomats have played down the significance of the reports.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of SIGNIFICANCE
significance
 n.  the message that is intended or expressed or signified
 n.  the quality of being significant
Classic Sentence: (149 in 10 pages)
1  'One ought so to order one's life that every moment in it should be of significance,' Arkady affirmed reflectively.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
2  In the first place, I am not in the least good; and in the second place, I have lost all significance for you, and you tell me I am good.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
3  When Pierre came up the count was gazing straight at him, but with a look the significance of which could not be understood by mortal man.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIII
4  After the fatigues and impressions of the journey, his reception, and especially after having dined, Bolkonski felt that he could not take in the full significance of the words he heard.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X
5  Their powers of reasoning, feeling, and observing immediately increased tenfold, and their life, which seemed to have been passed in darkness, was suddenly lit up by a new brightness, full of significance.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV
6  She saw her husband, but did not realize the significance of his appearance before her now.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IX
7  Then suddenly he realized the joyful significance of that wail; tears choked him, and leaning his elbows on the window sill be began to cry, sobbing like a child.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IX
8  When conversation turned on her husband Helene assumed a dignified expression, which with characteristic tact she had acquired though she did not understand its significance.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI
9  A deed done is irrevocable, and its result coinciding in time with the actions of millions of other men assumes an historic significance.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER I
10  Nothing outside himself had any significance for him, because everything in the world, it seemed to him, depended entirely on his will.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER VI
11  He knew that none of the words now uttered by Napoleon had any significance, and that Napoleon himself would be ashamed of them when he came to his senses.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER VI
12  "To his Honor Baron Asch, from General-in-Chief Prince Bolkonski," he announced with such solemnity and significance that the official turned to him and took the letters.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER IV
13  The roar of guns, that had not ceased for ten hours, wearied the ear and gave a peculiar significance to the spectacle, as music does to tableaux vivants.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXXIV
14  That marriage lacked the dual significance it should have had.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER VI
15  At that moment this news had only one significance for both of them.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XVII
Example Sentence: (126 in 9 pages)
1  The new drug has great significance for the treatment of the disease.
2  In this sense, the encyclopedic cultural value and historic significance of Dunhuang are inestimable.
3  Western diplomats have played down the significance of the reports.
4  No matter how strong you are how notable your attainments, you have endruring significance only in your relationship to others.
5  This leaves no doubt as to the universal and abiding significance of the Kingdom concept.
6  This fact has little significance for us.
7  The significance of this lies in the fact that he had previously denied all knowledge of the fund.
8  The media have grossly inflated the significance of this meeting.
9  The primary significance of the words which refer to the bread seems to belong to the image of the messianic kingdom.
10  We attached no significance to his statement.
11  We should be fully aware of the significance of television in shaping our ideas.
12  The words in these introductory pages connected themselves with the succeeding vignettes, and gave significance to the rock standing up alone in a sea of billow and spray.
13  The only solution is a third emblem, a red diamond on a white background, it has no cultural or religious significance.
14  But his advisers said that the detailed response to the issue in the manifesto is a sign that Mr. Brown now understands its significance.
15  Archaeologists debated the significance of the artifact discovered in the ruins of Asia Minor but came to no conclusion.