APPLIED in a Sentence

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310 example sentences for APPLIED, such as:

1. She applied the plaster on his shoulder.
2. But as applied by whalemen, it becomes so.
3. She applied for a job with the local newspaper.
4. Vitamins can be applied externally to the skin.
5. She applied for the new post of training officer.

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 Meanings and Examples of APPLIED
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
applied
 v.  be pertinent or relevant or applicable
 v.  avail oneself to
Classic Sentence: (181 in 13 pages)
1  It seemed very natural in the case of her mother and father, but she had never applied it to herself.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
2  The reason he had applied for transfer to the front, despite his useless arm, was that he realized, as the civilian population did not, the seriousness of the situation.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
3  As they dashed down the street and bumped over the railroad tracks, Rhett applied the whip automatically.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
4  He laughed and applied himself hungrily to the cold corn pone and cold turnip greens on which congealed grease was thick in white flakes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
5  He had never had the term "nigger" applied to him by a white person in all his life.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
6  He was aware that the qualities distinguishing her from the herd of her sex were chiefly external: as though a fine glaze of beauty and fastidiousness had been applied to vulgar clay.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
7  It seemed to her natural that Lily should spend all her money on dress, and she supplemented the girl's scanty income by occasional "handsome presents" meant to be applied to the same purpose.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
8  We will not speak of all Queequeg's peculiarities here; how he eschewed coffee and hot rolls, and applied his undivided attention to beefsteaks, done rare.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 5. Breakfast.
9  But as applied by whalemen, it becomes so.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 94. A Squeeze of the Hand.
10  Seating himself in a wicker rocker which was there, he once more applied himself to the task of reading the newspaper.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In I
11  It was porkmaking by machinery, porkmaking by applied mathematics.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
12  The scout applied his fingers to his mouth, and raised a low hissing sound, that caused Duncan at first to start aside, believing that he heard a serpent.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 19
13  Heyward seized the paddle, and applied himself to the work with an eagerness that supplied the place of skill, while Hawkeye was engaged in inspecting the priming of his rifle.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 20
14  Hawkeye and the Mohicans now applied themselves to their task in good earnest.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 21
15  Additional pursuers were sent on the trail of the fugitives; and then the chiefs applied themselves, in earnest, to the business of consultation.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 27
Example Sentence: (129 in 9 pages)
16  He applied for a patent for a new method of removing paint.
17  She applied for a job with the local newspaper.
18  She applied for the new post of training officer.
19  The restaurant applied for a licence to sell wine.
20  She applied the plaster on his shoulder.
21  Vitamins can be applied externally to the skin.
22  She applied for resident status but was turned down.
23  They are already discounted with deep savings even before the coupon is applied.
24  This insight is then applied to three prominent proposals.
25  Sorry, strictly speaking, the negation is applied to the verb and the verb to the subject.
26  Most major airlines have recently begun enforcing suitcase size and weight policies, which have been on the books for years but seldom applied.
27  Painting before the adhesive is applied will keep the color on much longer.
28  The nurse applied an emollient to the inflamed area.
29  A small, glittering ornament, such as a rhinestone or a sequin, applied to fabric or a garment.
30  The trainer carefully applied the liniment to the quarterback's bruise, gently rubbing it into the skin.