TOP in a Sentence

Learn TOP 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 TOP, such as:
1. Dug ourselves in to the hill top.
2. He reached down the atlas from the top shelf.
3. There it was, black, swollen, on top of them.
4. A cat was walking along the top of the fence.
5. On the top of their matted branches birds sang.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of TOP
top
 v.  reach or ascend the top of
 n.  a garment (especially for women) that extends from the shoulders to the waist or hips
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  A top hat, well brushed and trim, was placed upon the floor beside him.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
2  It was easy to tell that they had been before the others, because in places their marks had been entirely obliterated by the others coming upon the top of them.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION
3  The animals rushed to the top of it and gazed round them in the clear morning light.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II
4  The animals had now reassembled in the wildest excitement, each recounting his own exploits in the battle at the top of his voice.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV
5  Frequently it took a whole day of exhausting effort to drag a single boulder to the top of the quarry, and sometimes when it was pushed over the edge it failed to break.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI
6  A length of yellow brocade was visible half-way up; and, as one reached the top, a small powdered face, a great head-dress slung with pearls, came into view; an ancestress of sorts.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
7  "Mr. Giles may be late," she added, laying it, complacently, on top of the pile.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 2
8  Dug ourselves in to the hill top.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 6
9  Clearing out a cupboard, I found my father's old top hat.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 9
10  There it was, black, swollen, on top of them.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
11  Streatfield; a piece of traditional church furniture; a corner cupboard; or the top beam of a gate, fashioned by generations of village carpenters after some lost-in-the-mists-of-antiquity model.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
12  On the top of their matted branches birds sang.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 13
13  He caught up the next paper; it was a brief note in the doctor's hand and dated at the top.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THE LAST NIGHT
14  Iron clamps and girders, fire-proof from top to bottom; mechanical lifts for the housemaids, with all their brushes and brooms; everything that heart could desire.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III
15  He also carried his small triangular shield, broad enough at the top to protect the breast, and from thence diminishing to a point.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
Example Sentence: (208 in 14 pages)
1  Draw a straight line across the top of the page.
2  Write your address in the top right-hand corner of the letter.
3  Write your name, address and telephone number in the blank spaces at the top of the page.
4  But by then the administration wasn't paying attention, for top officials were fixated on Kuwait.
5  The agency plucked Naomi from obscurity and turned her into one of the world's top models.
6  A cat was walking along the top of the fence.
7  He steadied a coin on the top of the basketball bank.
8  Make sure the base coat has thoroughly dried before applying the top coat.
9  On top of the basic salary there are numerous other benefits.
10  We played the top class at football but we couldn't beat them.
11  The wind blew through gaps at the top and bottom of the door.
12  He reached down the atlas from the top shelf.
13  At the very top of the steps was a bust of Shakespeare on a pedestal.
14  He arrived breathless at the top of the stairs.
15  They were entertained by top singers, dancers and celebrities.