STRUCTURAL in a Sentence

Learn STRUCTURAL 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.
158 example sentences for STRUCTURAL, such as:
1. We learnt about the structure of the brain today.
2. A wide base will make the structure much more stable.
3. The cell walls of plants are of a fairly rigid structure.
4. Tom's whole structure of faith was shaken to its foundations.
5. A structural survey of the property revealed serious defects.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of STRUCTURAL
structural
 a.  concerned with systematic structure in a particular field of study
 a.  relating to or caused by structure, especially political or economic structure
Classic Sentence: (32 in 3 pages)
1  Hitherto, in descriptively treating of the Sperm Whale, I have chiefly dwelt upon the marvels of his outer aspect; or separately and in detail upon some few interior structural features.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 102. A Bower in the Arsacides.
2  The tall forewoman, a pinched perpendicular figure, dropped the condemned structure of wire and net on the table at Lily's side, and passed on to the next figure in the line.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
3  It was a tall lean shabby structure, three stories of yellow-streaked wood, the corners covered with sanded pine slabs purporting to symbolize stone.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
4  But to comprehend it aright, you must know something of the curious internal structure of the thing operated upon.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 77. The Great Heidelburgh Tun.
5  But owing to his marked internal structure which gives him regular lungs, like a human being's, the whale can only live by inhaling the disengaged air in the open atmosphere.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 85. The Fountain.
6  This triune structure, as much as anything else, imparts power to the tail.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 86. The Tail.
7  So, after all, there was a crack in the fine structure of Jurgis' faith in things as they are.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
8  All the fair structure of their hopes came crashing about their ears.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
9  A faint light glimmered through its cracks, however, and announced that, notwithstanding its imperfect structure, it was not without a tenant.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 26
10  The machinery had still to be installed, and Whymper was negotiating the purchase of it, but the structure was completed.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
11  The form was so much like an organic part of the entire motionless structure that to see it move would have impressed the mind as a strange phenomenon.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble
12  It was evidently the derelict remains of some vast structure, to what end built I could not determine.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In IV
13  While I was musing upon these things, my attention was attracted by a pretty little structure, like a well under a cupola.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In IV
14  Tom's whole structure of faith was shaken to its foundations.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
15  The wall was built of rough stones, among which, to give strength to the structure, blocks of hewn stone were at intervals imbedded.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15. Number 34 and Number 27.
Example Sentence: (126 in 9 pages)
1  Capable of holding 100 times its own weight in water, the structural sponge is realized by adding a hardening agent, which creates a shell on the surface.
2  Do not attempt to do this yourself unless you have a background in structural analysis and are familiar with the local building codes.
3  I said it would be simpler to get the discount since the dent is cosmetic not structural.
4  The Powell structural research lab at the university of California at San Diego tests new bridge materials such as carbon and fiberglass polymers.
5  A structural survey of the property revealed serious defects.
6  Those changes essentially relate to a slimming down in the industry itself, but also to significant structural changes.
7  There have been some fundamental structural changes in society.
8  A cocktail of jobless recovery, sluggish growth and low inflation is a major worry for the eurozone and the ECB has urged governments to speed up implementation of structural reforms, vital for Europe's economy to heal.
9  Headings and sub-headings further clarify the structure of the article.
10  A wide base will make the structure much more stable.
11  One of the panels had become detached from the main structure.
12  The department has successfully integrated new ideas into the traditional course structure.
13  The industrial revolution modified the whole structure of English society.
14  We learnt about the structure of the brain today.
15  The cell walls of plants are of a fairly rigid structure.