SUBSTANCE in a Sentence
Learn SUBSTANCE 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.
89 example sentences for SUBSTANCE, such as:
1. No substance to her or anything.
2. Melted tar is a viscous substance.
3. A slimy substance covered the rocks.
4. This substance is soluble in alcohol.
5. Salt is a substance we use in cooking.
2. Melted tar is a viscous substance.
3. A slimy substance covered the rocks.
4. This substance is soluble in alcohol.
5. Salt is a substance we use in cooking.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of SUBSTANCE
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substance
n. what a communication that is about something is about
n. the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
Classic Sentence: (63 in 5 pages)
1 These tales and rumours took substance and shape, and were corroborated and re-corroborated, until they resolved themselves into a definite name.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER III. JOHN FERRIER TALKS WITH THE PROPHET
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER III. JOHN FERRIER TALKS WITH THE PROPHET
2 It was a daylight bird, chuckling over the substance and succulence of the day, over worms, snails, grit, even in sleep.
3 The floor was composed of earth mixed with lime, trodden into a hard substance, such as is often employed in flooring our modern barns.
4 No substance to her or anything.
5 Her body was going meaningless, going dull and opaque, so much insignificant substance.
6 This, as well as I understand, is to be the substance of my information.
7 Their substance was great anger at the folly of each.
8 I have told you the substance of all that she said.
9 Mr. Bolter put his hand to his neckerchief, as if he felt it inconveniently tight; and murmured an assent, qualified in tone but not in substance.
10 This is a painful task,' said he, 'but these declarations, which have been signed in London before many gentlemen, must be in substance repeated here.
11 The groundwork of the face was hopefulness; but over it now I ay like a foreign substance a film of anxiety and grief.
12 He was permeated with its scenes, with its substance, and with its odours.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: 2 The New Course Causes Disappointment
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: 2 The New Course Causes Disappointment
13 The superstratum of timidity which often overlies those who are daring and defiant at heart had been passed through, and the mettlesome substance of the woman was reached.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: 3 Eustacia Dresses Herself on a Black Morning
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: 3 Eustacia Dresses Herself on a Black Morning
14 As the wax dropped into the fire a long flame arose from the spot, and curling its tongue round the figure ate still further into its substance.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: 7 The Night of the Sixth of November
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: 7 The Night of the Sixth of November
15 There was ivory in it, and some transparent crystalline substance.
Example Sentence: (26 in 2 pages)
1 This substance is soluble in alcohol.
2 We must seek an antidote for whatever toxic substance he has eaten.
3 The point is that the most vacuous of the vacuous draws big crowds and media and it doesn't imbue them with substance.
4 When a hive is threatened, bees release a pheromone-like substance which is called an alarm odor.
5 Melted tar is a viscous substance.
6 There is not anything of real substance in their book.
7 Chlorophyll is a green substance in plants that absorbs energy from sunlight and helps them grow.
8 The substance is irritable to sensitive skin.
9 In the film, the hero invents a remarkable substance whose amazing properties leave his coworkers flabbergasted.
10 Quartz is the most common material identified as a mystical substance in Australian Aboriginal mythology.
11 A slimy substance covered the rocks.
12 Oxygen is one of the basic elements of substance.
13 Salt is a substance we use in cooking.
14 These two chemicals interact with each other at a certain temperature to produce a substance which could cause an explosion.
15 The player insists that he merely took a cold remedy and not a banned substance.