EJACULATION in a Sentence

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27 example sentences for EJACULATION, such as:

1. Holmes gave an ejaculation of impatience.
2. Finally, he sprang down with an ejaculation of satisfaction.
3. He could not repress an ejaculation of surprise when he heard the news.
4. Tom was weeping, also, and occasionally uttering a smothered ejaculation.
5. Mrs. Sparsit uttered a gentle ejaculation, as having received a moral shock.

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 Meanings and Examples of EJACULATION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
ejaculation
 n.  act of throwing or shooting out; darting or casting forth; uttering of exclamations, or of brief exclamatory phrases
Classic Sentence: (24 in 2 pages)
1  Mrs. Sparsit uttered a gentle ejaculation, as having received a moral shock.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI
2  So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found the summer sun shining into the apartment.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
3  The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had framed himself in the aperture.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND
4  I tried to draw my companion's attention to them; but he gave a little ejaculation of impatience, and continued to stare into the street.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE
5  He glanced at it, and then, with an ejaculation of disgust, threw it on the floor.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF CHARLES AUGUSTUS MILVERTON
6  Holmes gave an ejaculation of impatience.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ
7  Finally, he sprang down with an ejaculation of satisfaction.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ABBEY GRANGE
8  The soft vehemence of this last ejaculation would have been, upon a man's lips, profanity of no uncertain meaning.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LV
9  I'm bressed if he ain't more of shark dan Massa Shark hisself, muttered the old man, limping away; with which sage ejaculation he went to his hammock.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 64. Stubb's Supper.
10  It would be in vain; and answered, most probably, by an ejaculation.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2
11  The warriors uttered a common ejaculation of pleasure, and then turned their eyes, inquiringly, on the movements of his rival.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 29
12  Tom was weeping, also, and occasionally uttering a smothered ejaculation.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
13  I uttered an ejaculation of discontent at seeing the dismal grate, and commenced shutting the casements, one after another, till I came to his.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
14  The heartiness of the ejaculation startled Mr. Dick exceedingly; and me, too, if I am to tell the truth.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13. THE SEQUEL OF MY RESOLUTION
15  And he imagined the consternation and the ejaculations of his mother and the young lady at the seminary as they drank his recitals.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
Example Sentence:
1  He could not repress an ejaculation of surprise when he heard the news.
2  There was a buzz of gratification from time to time during the reading, accompanied by whispered ejaculations of "How sweet!" "How eloquent!" "So true!" etc.
3  I ejaculated mentally , " you deserve perpetual isolation from your species for your churlish inhospitality.