UNIVERSAL in a Sentence
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324 example sentences for UNIVERSAL, such as:
1. He became an object of universal derision.
2. Such problems are a universal feature of old age.
3. But universal and joyous youth rather resembled Erik.
4. Food, like sex, is a subject of almost universal interest.
5. Education should be a universal right and not a privilege.
2. Such problems are a universal feature of old age.
3. But universal and joyous youth rather resembled Erik.
4. Food, like sex, is a subject of almost universal interest.
5. Education should be a universal right and not a privilege.
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Meanings and Examples of UNIVERSAL
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universal
n. (logic) a proposition that asserts something of all members of a class
a. adapted to various purposes, sizes, forms, operations
Classic Sentence: (181 in 13 pages)
1 White flour was scarce and so expensive that corn bread was universal instead of biscuits, rolls and waffles.
2 There was universal rejoicing in that holiday season, rejoicing and thankfulness that the tide was turning.
3 Scarlett, though filled with the universal Southern desire to believe only the pleasantest and most reassuring things about the progress of the fighting, felt cold as she watched the motley ranks go by.
4 "I wouldn't put much beyond her," was the universal attitude.
5 Since she had been brought up to be ornamental, she could hardly blame herself for failing to serve any practical purpose; but the discovery put an end to her consoling sense of universal efficiency.
6 Carol kicked off her silver slippers, and ignored the universal glance at her arches.
7 Dave had given verdict, "What these mouthy youngsters that hang around the pool-room need is universal military training."
8 It was not Erik to whom she must escape, but universal and joyous youth, in class-rooms, in studios, in offices, in meetings to protest against Things in General.
9 But universal and joyous youth rather resembled Erik.
10 She had left a city which sat up nights to talk of universal transition; of European revolution, guild socialism, free verse.
11 They it was who by universal prescription commanded three of the Pequod's boats as headsmen.
12 Consider, once more, the universal cannibalism of the sea; all whose creatures prey upon each other, carrying on eternal war since the world began.
13 How at such an apparently unassailable surface, they contrive to gouge out such symmetrical mouthfuls, remains a part of the universal problem of all things.
14 An intense copper calm, like a universal yellow lotus, was more and more unfolding its noiseless measureless leaves upon the sea.
15 Thus the most vexatious and violent disputes would often arise between the fishermen, were there not some written or unwritten, universal, undisputed law applicable to all cases.
Example Sentence: (143 in 10 pages)
1 Perhaps it is the almost universal use of flavourings that makes it so hard to tell the products apart.
2 Food, like sex, is a subject of almost universal interest.
3 All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
4 The insurance industry has produced its own proposals for universal health care.
5 This leaves no doubt as to the universal and abiding significance of the Kingdom concept.
6 Education should be a universal right and not a privilege.
7 Some of the teachers are technical specialists, but this is far from universal.
8 Such problems are a universal feature of old age.
9 Several writers have posited the idea of a universal consciousness.
10 He became an object of universal derision.
11 It is an almost universal truth that the more we are promoted in a job, the less we actually exercise the skills we initially used to perform it.
12 An optimistic theory of evolutionary progress was surreptitiously beginning to replace the pessimistic doctrine of universal decay.
13 This augurs well for the future and underlines the truth that music as a universal language is an important resource for ecumenism.
14 Today when a corporation loses a court decision the universal punishment they incur is that they are made to pay a fine.
15 He introduced universal health care for all MA citizens and his prototype was the blueprint for what Arnold was introducing in CA.