TERMS in a Sentence

Learn TERMS 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.
418 example sentences for TERMS, such as:
1. To be brief, we can't accept such harsh terms.
2. They failed to agree on the terms of a settlement.
3. If we are to treat with you, it must be on equal terms.
4. So, because he was tired, he bought peace at her own terms.
5. SHE tried to be content, which was a contradiction in terms.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of TERMS
terms
 v.  name formally or designate with a term
 n.  the end of gestation or point at which birth is imminent
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  With all the rest of the County, Gerald was on terms of amity and some intimacy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  It was for the latter reason that he was barely on speaking terms with his sister, Miss Pittypat.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
3  Melanie and Charles, who were on excellent terms with their uncle, had frequently offered to relieve her of this ordeal, but Pitty always set her babyish mouth firmly and refused.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
4  And they must be on amicable terms to be coming home together at this hour and in this condition.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
5  Now she was the beggar and a beggar in no position to dictate terms.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
6  No, Scarlett, if I am to lend you the money I reserve the right to discuss Ashley Wilkes in any terms I care to.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
7  So, because he was tired, he bought peace at her own terms.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
8  This house was something that the matrons of Atlanta whispered about furtively and ministers preached against in guarded terms as a cesspool of iniquity, a hissing and a reproach.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
9  She wrote Colonel Carlton and to her consternation received a reply praising Rhett's services in no uncertain terms.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
10  At any rate he sat at his desk all day, giving every appearance of industry, for he wished to be on equal terms with his respectable fellow townsmen who worked and worked hard.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
11  Put by Rosedale in terms of business-like give-and-take, this understanding took on the harmless air of a mutual accommodation, like a transfer of property or a revision of boundary lines.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 7
12  SHE tried to be content, which was a contradiction in terms.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
13  I began to think it was high time to settle with myself at what terms I would be willing to engage for the voyage.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16. The Ship.
14  Of those fine cavaliers, the young Dons, Pedro and Sebastian, were on the closer terms with me; and hence the interluding questions they occasionally put, and which are duly answered at the time.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
15  These children seemed to be upon very much the same terms with Antonia as the Harling children had been so many years before.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
Example Sentence: (208 in 14 pages)
1  John is on equal terms with Dick, either in ability or in character.
2  Our goods compete in terms of product quality, reliability and above all variety.
3  To be brief, we can't accept such harsh terms.
4  By the age of seven, children are capable of thinking in abstract terms.
5  He refused on principle to agree to the terms of the treaty.
6  They failed to agree on the terms of a settlement.
7  There are many big sharks waiting for the wee Minister to announce the terms of these sales.
8  The bank will lend your company quite a huge sum of money on very favourable terms.
9  The ship was impounded under the terms of the UN trade embargo.
10  If we are to treat with you, it must be on equal terms.
11  The UN will dictate the terms of troop withdrawal from the region.
12  Under the terms of the contract the job should have been finished yesterday.
13  My new neighbor moved in last weekend and already we're on speaking terms.
14  Western countries enjoyed considerable advantages in terms of technology.
15  The media has been speaking in glowing terms of the relationship between the two countries.