SIMPLE in a Sentence

Learn SIMPLE 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.
349 example sentences for SIMPLE, such as:
1. The basic idea is simple.
2. The tune was as simple as could be.
3. Single is simple, double is trouble.
4. We usually have a simple meal at midday.
5. It was a simple tune, another voice speaking.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of SIMPLE
simple
 n.  a person lacking intelligence or common sense
 a.  apart from anything else; without additions or modifications
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  "It is simple enough as you explain it," I said, smiling.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
2  It is a simple calculation enough, though there is no use my boring you with figures.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
3  Weak or strong, clever or simple, we are all brothers.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I
4  Transporting the stone when it was once broken was comparatively simple.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI
5  Another voice, a third voice, was saying something simple.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 8
6  It was a simple tune, another voice speaking.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 8
7  Meanwhile the good wife on the table spreads her simple fare; and to the shepherd's flute, from toil released, the nymphs and swains join hands and foot it on the green.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 9
8  The tune was as simple as could be.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
9  It is a mere question of figures, a case of simple arithmetic.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II
10  The simple circumstance of being left alone with her husband and Mr. Bounderby, was sufficient to stun this admirable lady again without collision between herself and any other fact.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV
11  Once again, Stephen had to conquer an instinctive propensity to dislike this old woman, though her manner was as honest and simple as a manner possibly could be.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI
12  Difficulties had arisen in the construction of this machine, simple as it was; requisites had been found wanting, and messages had had to go and return.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI
13  Several domestics, whose dress held various proportions betwixt the richness of their master's, and the coarse and simple attire of Gurth the swine-herd, watched the looks and waited the commands of the Saxon dignitary.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
14  Having shut the door of his cell, he placed the torch in a candlestick made of wood, and looked around his sleeping apartment, the furniture of which was of the most simple kind.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
15  That's the real secret of marriage, not sex; at least not the simple function of sex.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
Example Sentence: (139 in 10 pages)
1  A simple mathematical formula has been devised to allow you to calculate the interest due.
2  The little boy can already do simple problems in arithmetic.
3  The issues are finely balanced and there is no simple answer to the question.
4  The argument needs to progress beyond the simple assertion that criminals are made not born.
5  The basic idea is simple.
6  Happiness is simple:You and I,sitting together,chatting,laughing out loud and doing sth.
7  We serve traditional French food cooked in a lighter way, keeping the presentation simple.
8  In his plays he takes simple traditional tales and elaborates them.
9  Aspirin is a simple but highly effective treatment.
10  Single is simple, double is trouble.
11  We usually have a simple meal at midday.
12  The children cut the paper into various simple shapes.
13  They wear simple clothes and shun modern contrivances.
14  Buddhist ethics are simple but its practices are very complex to a western mind.
15  If you want to be successful, it's just this simple.