UNIT in a Sentence

Learn UNIT 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.
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.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of UNIT
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
3  But the town as a separate unit is not the husband of the Thanatopsis.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
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.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Ten End
5  They formed a unit of the sort that normally can be formed only by matter that is lifeless.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Ten End
6  as he moved slightly towards the edge and directed the group in that direction as a single unit.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Ten End
7  The only thing that is a unit, non-organic, composed of many different, yet equally essential parts, is the machine.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
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
9  We often forget that each unit in the mass is a throbbing human soul.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
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.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 4
11  Like quicksilver sliding, filings magnetized, the distracted united.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
12  Compelled from the ends of the horizon; recalled from the edge of appalling crevasses; they crashed; solved; united.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
13  Hence, no doubt, the bond that united him to Mr. Richard Enfield, his distant kinsman, the well-known man about town.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR
14  And when they were united in holy matrimony, they went home to breakfast at Stone Lodge aforesaid.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI
15  Recovering their horses however, and wheeling them round, the whole three pursued their united purpose of bearing to the earth the Disinherited Knight.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
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.