SON in a Sentence

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374 example sentences for SON, such as:
1. Her son was killed in battle.
2. Many a good father hath but a bad son.
3. The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot.
4. His son was a junkie, the kid OD'd a year ago.
5. His son's return had agitated Nikolai Petrovitch.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of SON
son
 n.  the divine word of God; the second person in the Trinity (incarnate in Jesus)
 n.  a male human offspring
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  There also arrived, in answer to the summons, not only the son of Father Cyril before mentioned, but also Father Cyril himself.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VII
2  These injunctions given, the father embraced his son, and set forth on his return; and though the son never again beheld his parent, the latter's words and precepts sank deep into the little Chichikov's soul.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER XI
3  In other words, the father's injunction, "Guard and save every kopeck," had become a hard and fast rule of the son's.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER XI
4  The other of the pair was a fellow named Mofi Kifovitch, and son to the first named.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER XI
5  He was what we Russians call a "hero," and while his father was pondering the parturition of beasts, his, the son's, lusty, twenty-year-old temperament was violently struggling for development.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER XI
6  Yet that son could tackle nothing without some accident occurring.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER XI
7  'Never mind, never mind,' repeated Nikolai Petrovitch, smiling tenderly, and twice he struck the collar of his son's cloak and his own greatcoat with his hand.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
8  Nikolai Petrovitch seemed far more excited than his son; he seemed a little confused, a little timid.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
9  'I have had a lot of bother with the peasants this year,' pursued Nikolai Petrovitch, turning to his son.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
10  Nikolai Petrovitch gave a sidelong glance at his son, and the carriage went on a half-a-mile further before the conversation was renewed between them.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
11  His son's return had agitated Nikolai Petrovitch.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
12  The father and son went out on to the terrace under the shelter of the awning; near the balustrade, on the table, among great bunches of lilacs, the samovar was already boiling.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
13  Nikolai Petrovitch in confusion looked at his son.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
14  Father and son were equally rejoiced at his appearance at that instant; there are positions, genuinely affecting, from which one longs to escape as soon as possible.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
15  This surgeon's son was not only not overawed, he even gave abrupt and indifferent answers, and in the tone of his voice there was something churlish, almost insolent.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
Example Sentence: (164 in 11 pages)
1  According to the Bible, an angel told Mary that she would have God's son Jesus.
2  Our aim is to teach our son to become an independent, self-reliant adult.
3  His son was a junkie, the kid OD'd a year ago.
4  Walking along the road, I was snowballed by my son.
5  The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot.
6  The father buys, the son bigs, the grandchild sells, and his son thigs.
7  Elaine and Ian Gibson proudly announce the birth of their son, John Maurice.
8  They had put up with behaviour from their son which they would not have tolerated from anyone else.
9  Her daughter is an artist and her son is on the stage.
10  Many a good father hath but a bad son.
11  Her son was killed in battle.
12  Because she had no children of her own, her friend's son became a kind of surrogate child to her.
13  She's troubled by her son's inclination toward atheism.
14  In the traditional Hindu family, the son is duty-bound to look after his mother.
15  The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.