AID in a Sentence

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1. The schools are screaming for federal aid.
2. We must go in different directions, seeking aid.
3. He was forced to turn for aid to his former enemy.
4. The country has a growing dependence on foreign aid.
5. This feature is designed to aid inexperienced users.

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 Meanings and Examples of AID
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
aid
 n.  person or thing that promotes or helps in something done; helper; assistant
Classic Sentence: (197 in 14 pages)
1  It was, indeed, high time that someone capable of giving advice and help should come to the aid of the sturdy old farmer and his adopted daughter.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE
2  We must go in different directions, seeking aid.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI
3  "Never mind whom," answered Gurth, who had now got his herd before him, and, with the aid of Fangs, was driving them down one of the long dim vistas which we have endeavoured to describe.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
4  Sir Prior," answered the Saxon, "wheresoever I have travelled in this land, I have hitherto found myself, with the assistance of my good sword and faithful followers, in no respect needful of other aid.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
5  Without the aid of our wealth, they could neither furnish forth their hosts in war, nor their triumphs in peace, and the gold which we lend them returns with increase to our coffers.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
6  The tumult was presently increased by the advance of the second rank on either side, which, acting as a reserve, now rushed on to aid their companions.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
7  Let him carry a written order to De Bracy's company of Free Companions, to repair instantly to their master's aid.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
8  I expect little aid from their hand," said Front-de-Boeuf, "unless we were to hurl them from the battlements on the heads of the villains.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
9  Front-de-Boeuf is dying too, so we shall receive no more aid from his bull's head and brutal strength.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
10  Follow me boldly across, and aid me to burst yon sallyport in the main wall of the castle.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
11  Amen," said the Grand Master, with solemnity, "but we must deserve his aid.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
12  It were deep pity," said Conrade Mont-Fitchet, "to lose to the Order one of its best lances, when the Holy Community most requires the aid of its sons.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
13  His hands held her like flowers, so still aid strange.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
14  I should like,' he said, 'to call in the aid of my friend Grimwig.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
15  When I yielded, I thought it was to duty, but no duty could be called in aid here.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23
Example Sentence: (76 in 6 pages)
16  His country desperately needs Western aid to restore its ailing economy.
17  They said Western aid was needed to cushion the blows of vital reform.
18  I spoke to an aid worker who had recently returned from the field.
19  Learning is wealth to the poor, an honour to the rich, an aid to the young, and a support and comfort to the aged.
20  The aid appeal has galvanised the German business community.
21  The charity is having a street collection in aid of the local hospital.
22  This aid money is crucial to the government's economic policies.
23  This feature is designed to aid inexperienced users.
24  The schools are screaming for federal aid.
25  The country has a growing dependence on foreign aid.
26  He was forced to turn for aid to his former enemy.
27  Financial aid is being provided to the country under the auspices of the International Monetary Fund.
28  Fifty years of bilateral aid programmes does not seem to have done much to reduce global poverty.
29  An English-Chinese Dictionary is an important aid in learning the English.
30  They have made an urgent request for international aid.