SIZE in a Sentence

Learn SIZE 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.
272 example sentences for SIZE, such as:
1. Well, that's about the size of it, I suppose.
2. Potatoes are graded according to size and quality.
3. Relative to the size,the city is sparsely populated.
4. Joralemon was a prairie town of the size of Gopher Prairie.
5. There it was, heroic in size, a picture writing on the sun.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of SIZE
size
 n.  the property resulting from being one of a series of graduated measurements (as of clothing)
 v.  sort according to size
Classic Sentence: (113 in 8 pages)
1  Scarlett, really seeing them for the first time, was surprised and touched by the size of the crowd.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
2  To Wade and Ella, a little dazzled by the size, splendor and fashionable dark gloom of their new home, these two metal animals were the only cheerful notes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
3  Well, that's about the size of it, I suppose.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 7
4  Her expensive frock of beaver-colored satin with rows, plasters, and pendants of solemn brown beads was intended for a woman twice her size.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
5  I was born in an Ohio town about the same size as Gopher Prairie, and much less friendly.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
6  Joralemon was a prairie town of the size of Gopher Prairie.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
7  He is of moderate octavo size, varying from fifteen to twenty-five feet in length, and of corresponding dimensions round the waist.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
8  The meat is made into balls about the size of billiard balls, and being well seasoned and spiced might be taken for turtle-balls or veal balls.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 65. The Whale as a Dish.
9  As it passes through the remaining vertebrae the canal tapers in size, but for a considerable distance remains of large capacity.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 80. The Nut.
10  Still rolling in his blood, at last he partially disclosed a strangely discoloured bunch or protuberance, the size of a bushel, low down on the flank.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 81. The Pequod Meets The Virgin.
11  Not far from the Sea-side, they have a Temple, the Rafters and Beams of which are made of Whale-Bones; for Whales of a monstrous size are oftentimes cast up dead upon that shore.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 104. The Fossil Whale.
12  As I turned him over, I began to feel proud of him, to have a kind of respect for his age and size.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VII
13  A snake of his size, in fighting trim, would be more than any boy could handle.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VII
14  The husband, in Chicago, was working in a furniture factory for modest wages, and when he met his family at the station he was rather crushed by the size of it.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IX
15  There it was, heroic in size, a picture writing on the sun.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XIV
Example Sentence: (159 in 11 pages)
1  All rural settlements were classified according to their size.
2  Potatoes are graded according to size and quality.
3  The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them.
4  The size of your pores is determined by the amount of oil they produce.
5  The amount of food a child needs is roughly proportional to its size.
6  An area of forest equal to the size of Wales has been destroyed.
7  Television has transformed the size and social composition of the audience at great sporting occasions.
8  Eventually they may take over a small group when the large parent troop undergoes fission as increasing size produces social instability.
9  You can tell the size of a man by the size of the things which make him mad.
10  The changing size of an infant's head is considered an index of brain growth.
11  Just one of these bombs could annihilate a city the size of New York.
12  Relative to the size,the city is sparsely populated.
13  He suggested a link between class size and test results of seven-year-olds.
14  These figures clearly demonstrate the size of the economic problem facing the country.
15  The community has dwindled to a tenth of its former size in the last two years.