UNIT in a Sentence
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275 example sentences for UNIT, such as:
1. The gram is a metric unit.
2. The hour is a unit of time.
3. Electricity is ten pence per unit.
4. The school has a special education unit.
5. The basic unit of society is the family.
2. The hour is a unit of time.
3. Electricity is ten pence per unit.
4. The school has a special education unit.
5. The basic unit of society is the family.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of UNIT
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unit
n. any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange
n. an organization regarded as part of a larger social group
Classic Sentence: (131 in 9 pages)
1 In a moment, the Home Guard and the militia unit in their bright uniforms shook the narrow stairs and crowded into the room, bowing, saluting, shaking hands.
2 That afternoon the Elsing home was crowded with soldiers on leave and men from the hospitals, members of the Home Guard and the militia unit, and matrons, widows and young girls.
3 But the town as a separate unit is not the husband of the Thanatopsis.
4 was held stiff and upright between them, they formed now a single unit so that if any one of them had been knocked down all of them must have fallen.
5 They formed a unit of the sort that normally can be formed only by matter that is lifeless.
6 as he moved slightly towards the edge and directed the group in that direction as a single unit.
7 The only thing that is a unit, non-organic, composed of many different, yet equally essential parts, is the machine.
8 What was more, he was ready at once to be the first unit sacrificed.
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
9 We often forget that each unit in the mass is a throbbing human soul.
10 A thread united them--visible, invisible, like those threads, now seen, now not, that unite trembling grass blades in autumn before the sun rises.
11 Like quicksilver sliding, filings magnetized, the distracted united.
12 Compelled from the ends of the horizon; recalled from the edge of appalling crevasses; they crashed; solved; united.
13 Hence, no doubt, the bond that united him to Mr. Richard Enfield, his distant kinsman, the well-known man about town.
14 And when they were united in holy matrimony, they went home to breakfast at Stone Lodge aforesaid.
15 Recovering their horses however, and wheeling them round, the whole three pursued their united purpose of bearing to the earth the Disinherited Knight.
Example Sentence: (144 in 10 pages)
1 The basic unit of society is the family.
2 The family is the basic social unit of modern society.
3 The unit has insufficient armament with which to do battle.
4 We have an in-house training unit.
5 One unit of alcohol is equal to half a pint of beer.
6 The hour is a unit of time.
7 The man is in the hospital's intensive care unit.
8 The school has a special education unit.
9 A metre is a unit of length and a kilogram is a unit of weight.
10 The cell is the unit of which all living organisms are composed.
11 They aim to reduce unit costs through extra sales.
12 The gram is a metric unit.
13 Electricity is ten pence per unit.
14 The cavalry unit must be remounted immediately.
15 The unit is comparatively easy to install and cheap to operate.