SYSTEM in a Sentence

Learn SYSTEM 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.
370 example sentences for SYSTEM, such as:
1. The system is open to too many abuses.
2. Britain's tax system takes no account of children.
3. She was planning to revolutionize the whole system.
4. The public transport system was absolutely hopeless.
5. Only authorized personnel have access to the computer system.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of SYSTEM
system
 n.  the living body considered as made up of interdependent components forming a unified whole
 n.  a procedure or process for obtaining an objective
Classic Sentence: (160 in 11 pages)
1  "I never heard of any system," she said crossly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
2  Scarlett, our Southern way of living is as antiquated as the feudal system of the Middle Ages.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
3  I employed a delicate system of blackmail on a friend in Washington who is quite high in the councils of the Federal government.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
4  This new system of leasing convicts had come into being because of the poverty of the state after the war.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
5  While Frank and his quiet churchgoing friends realized the necessity of the system, they deplored it just the same.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
6  And their negroes, who had been told nothing, knew everything too, by that black grapevine telegraph system which defies white understanding.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVI
7  The system is open to too many abuses.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVII
8  She remembered her helplessness and her panic at her helplessness and her hatred of the Yankees who had imposed this galling system upon the South.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVIII
9  Regina's work-room knew to whom the headgear in her hands was destined, and had her opinion of its future wearer, and a definite knowledge of the latter's place in the social system.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
10  She was planning to revolutionize the whole system.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
11  He gave most of the morning lectures, droning with equal unhappy facility about poetry, the Holy Land, and the injustice to employers in any system of profit-sharing.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
12  And this is the Bibliographical system here adopted; and it is the only one that can possibly succeed, for it alone is practicable.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
13  Beyond the DUODECIMO, this system does not proceed, inasmuch as the Porpoise is the smallest of the whales.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
14  Finally: It was stated at the outset, that this system would not be here, and at once, perfected.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
15  They have provided a system which for terse comprehensiveness surpasses Justinian's Pandects and the By-laws of the Chinese Society for the Suppression of Meddling with other People's Business.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 89. Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish.
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The system has the ability to run more than one program at the same time.
2  The system keeps crashing and no one is able to figure out why.
3  The public transport system was absolutely hopeless.
4  Only authorized personnel have access to the computer system.
5  Bank customers can access their checking accounts instantly through the electronic system.
6  One of the pillars of a civilized society must be that everyone has equal access to the legal system.
7  You can't gain access to the computer system without entering your password.
8  The system has been designed to give the user quick and easy access to the required information.
9  One of the pillars of society must be that everyone has access to the legal system.
10  Under socialist system rendering to a worker is done according to his work.
11  Britain's tax system takes no account of children.
12  The old administration system is under greater and greater challenge.
13  The paper calls for an urgent shake-up in the system for looking after the elderly.
14  Bias against women permeates every level of the judicial system.
15  She says the French education system is light years ahead of the English one.