ADMITTANCE in a Sentence

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21 example sentences for ADMITTANCE, such as:

1. There is no admittance without a pass.
2. Into one house in this neighbourhood they shall never have admittance.
3. I opened the wicket and ran to the door, knocking vehemently for admittance.
4. A visitor may be denied admittance to this country if she has been guilty of moral turpitude.
5. For a moment I considered it absurd that I should need such a weapon to gain admittance into my own residence.

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 Meanings and Examples of ADMITTANCE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
admittance
 n.  the right to enter
 n.  the act of admitting someone to enter
Classic Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1  No one ever regretted the admittance of Sam Weller, for a more devoted, well-behaved, and jovial member no club could have.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TEN
2  Thus brooding as he sat among them, he caught sight of Minerva and went straight to the gate, for he was vexed that a stranger should be kept waiting for admittance.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK I
3  Not a tie links me to any living thing: not a claim do I possess to admittance under any roof in England.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
4  Into one house in this neighbourhood they shall never have admittance.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 50
5  Being unable to remove the chain, I jumped over, and, running up the flagged causeway bordered with straggling gooseberry-bushes, knocked vainly for admittance, till my knuckles tingled and the dogs howled.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
6  For a moment I considered it absurd that I should need such a weapon to gain admittance into my own residence.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
7  I opened the wicket and ran to the door, knocking vehemently for admittance.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
8  When he came, and I requested admittance and tried to open the door, I found it locked; and Heathcliff bid us be damned.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
9  However, this was a peculiar grace, not allowed to any but persons of the highest rank, when they desire an admittance.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER IX.
10  I began to think that this house must belong to some person of great note among them, because there appeared so much ceremony before I could gain admittance.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER II.
11  There at least he was not denied admittance; but when he came in, he was shocked at the change which had taken place in the doctor's appearance.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER REMARKABLE INCIDENT OF DR. LANYON
12  Conversation was here interrupted by the entrance of the porter's page, who announced that there was a stranger at the gate, imploring admittance and hospitality.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
13  Out of the recesses of a dark closet, into which this aperture gave admittance, he brought a large pasty, baked in a pewter platter of unusual dimensions.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
14  The conversation was interrupted by the arrival of a menial, who announced that a monk demanded admittance at the postern gate.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
15  But peasants from the neighbouring country were not refused admittance; for it was the pride of Beaumanoir to render the edifying spectacle of the justice which he administered as public as possible.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
Example Sentence:
1  A visitor may be denied admittance to this country if she has been guilty of moral turpitude.
2  There is no admittance without a pass.