STABLE in a Sentence

Learn STABLE 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.
164 example sentences for STABLE, such as:
1. The steed is restored to thy stable.
2. People passed the stable yard, talking.
3. She led the horse back into the stable.
4. The injured man was in a stable condition.
5. The unit is stable enough on level ground.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of STABLE
stable
 a.  not taking part readily in chemical change
 v.  shelter in a stable
Classic Sentence: (128 in 9 pages)
1  She must go on; and she turned in the direction of the stable.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
2  She had come into the stable yard where the dogs were chained; where the buckets stood; where the great pear tree spread its ladder of branches against the wall.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
3  The gilt hands of the stable clock pointed inflexibly at two minutes to the hour.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
4  People passed the stable yard, talking.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
5  She took her chair and looked through the smoke at a crude glass painting of a cow in a stable; also at a cock and a hen.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 12
6  The steed is restored to thy stable.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
7  And I say," replied Gurth, "he is sound, wind and limb; and you may see him now, in your stable.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
8  The place had always frightened him, but he had thought it more or less stable.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
9  Except the daughter of one of the cotters, who was their servant, and a lad who worked in the garden and stable, scarcely anyone but themselves ever entered the house.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 10 A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion
10  The stable lantern was fetched and lighted.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 7 The Morning and the Evening of a Day
11  Mechanically she went round to the end where the stable was, and on looking in at the stable door she saw Charley standing within.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 4 The Ministrations of a Half-forgotten One
12  Eustacia's face was not visible to Charley as she stood at the doorway, her back being to the sky, and the stable but indifferently lighted; but the wildness of her manner arrested his attention.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 4 The Ministrations of a Half-forgotten One
13  When she had disappeared Charley, with misgiving in his eyes, slowly came from the stable door, and going to another point in the bank he looked over.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 4 The Ministrations of a Half-forgotten One
14  Then I could not stay in bed; I got up and dressed myself, and when I heard him out in the stable I thought I would come and tell you.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 8 Rain, Darkness, and Anxious Wanderers
15  Before starting in search of her I called up Charley, my stable lad.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 8 Rain, Darkness, and Anxious Wanderers
Example Sentence: (36 in 3 pages)
1  It's no use locking the stable door after the horse has bolted.
2  It is too late to shut the stable door after the horse has been stolen.
3  She led the horse back into the stable.
4  A wide base will make the structure much more stable.
5  A man is not a horse because he was born in a stable.
6  It is too late to lock the stable door when the steed is stolen.
7  It is too late to shut the stable door when the steed is stolen.
8  It is too late to lock the stable door when the horse is stolen.
9  Put a book under the table to keep it stable.
10  The unit is stable enough on level ground.
11  Lock the stable door before the steed is stolen.
12  They found Trish sitting on the cobbles of the stable yard.
13  The injured man was in a stable condition.
14  According to a hospital spokesman, his condition is said to be poorly, but stable.
15  He was taken off the critical list and is now in a stable condition.