SUBJECTIVE in a Sentence

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420 example sentences for SUBJECTIVE, such as:
1. All this irritation is purely subjective.
2. Everyone's opinion is bound to be subjective.
3. We know that taste in art is a subjective matter.
4. She droned away for hours about her pet subjects.
5. The emperor demanded total submission from his subjects.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of SUBJECTIVE
subjective
 a.  of a mental act performed entirely within the mind
 a.  taking place within the mind and modified by individual bias
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  All this irritation is purely subjective.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT IV
2  But in whichever class we place it, it will be seen to have had its beginning in freedom, and not in subjection to another State.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I.
3  The third method is to hold other States in direct subjection to you, and not merely associated with you as companions; and this was the plan pursued by the Spartans and Athenians.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV.
4  This is more particularly the case with republics, as in Tuscany for example; for contention and rivalry have always made, and always will make it extremely hard for one republic to bring another into subjection.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XII.
5  By means such as these, therefore, cities innumerable have been brought into subjection, as recently was the case with Florence.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XII.
6  How a divided City may be reunited, and how it is a false opinion that to hold Cities in subjection they must be kept divided.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXVII.
7  And thus we see how natural freedom and subjection to parents may consist together, and are both founded on the same principle.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
8  Every one is born a subject to his father, or his prince, and is therefore under the perpetual tie of subjection and allegiance.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
9  I will not dispute now whether princes are exempt from the laws of their country; but this I am sure, they owe subjection to the laws of God and nature.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
10  My doctrine has never aimed at the subjection of the understanding.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
11  He saw it, and his face expressed that utter subjection, that slavish devotion, which had done so much to win her.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 22
12  We must not forget that the subjection of women is so complete, and dates from such ages back that we are often unwilling to recognize the gulf that separates them from us, said he.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 10
13  If the consciousness of freedom were not a separate and independent source of self-consciousness it would be subject to reasoning and to experience, but in fact such subjection does not exist and is inconceivable.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER VIII
14  It is the canonical subjection in the full force of its abnegation.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA
15  Otherwise, I know it is one of those subjects I shall never hear the last of.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XV
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  We know that taste in art is a subjective matter.
2  Everyone's opinion is bound to be subjective.
3  I think my husband is the most handsome man in the world, but I realize my judgment is rather subjective.
4  More specific and less subjective criteria should be used in selecting people for promotion within the company.
5  This view is subjective and therefore open to disagreement.
6  Certainly Shostakovich was lucky to work in a wordless abstract medium, where interpretation is strongly subjective.
7  Your analysis is highly subjective; you have permitted your emotions and your opinions to color your thinking.
8  The government used brute force to keep people in subjection.
9  She droned away for hours about her pet subjects.
10  Research on athletes and ordinary human subjects has yielded a mixed bag of results.
11  They will also force schools to put more emphasis on teaching basic subjects.
12  The emperor demanded total submission from his subjects.
13  He looked indifferently upon subjects that did not interest him.
14  The speaker discoursed knowledgeably on a variety of subjects.
15  His unusual choice of subjects made it harder to find a job.