FRAME in a Sentence

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For FRAME, below is one of 236 sentences:
The railroad station was a one-room frame box, a mirey cattle-pen on one side and a crimson wheat-elevator on the other.

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 Meanings and Examples of FRAME
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
frame
 n.  structure that gives shape or support; closed, often rectangular border of drawn or printed lines
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  "I said a doctor," he answered brusquely and his eyes unconsciously went over her tiny frame.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
2  Reluctantly he slid out of his hiding place, a giant ragged figure, bare-footed, clad in denim breeches and a blue Union uniform jacket that was far too short and tight for his big frame.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
3  The clothes are the background, the frame, if you like: they don't make success, but they are a part of it.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
4  It was in this frame of mind that, striking back from the shore one morning into the windings of an unfamiliar lane, she came suddenly upon the figure of George Dorset.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 6
5  She began to rip the spangles from the frame, listening absently to the buzz of talk which rose and fell with the coming and going of Miss Haines's active figure.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
6  The railroad station was a one-room frame box, a mirey cattle-pen on one side and a crimson wheat-elevator on the other.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
7  The houses on the outskirts were dusky old red mansions with wooden frills, or gaunt frame shelters like grocery boxes, or new bungalows with concrete foundations imitating stone.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
8  She held his hand tightly and stared ahead as the car swung round a corner and stopped in the street before a prosaic frame house in a small parched lawn.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
9  She found it a liver-colored frame coop half a block from Main Street.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
10  A town in California which had changed itself from the barren brick fronts and slatternly frame sheds of a Main Street to a way which led the eye down a vista of arcades and gardens.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
11  On the center table was a Sears-Roebuck mail-order catalogue, a silver frame with photographs of the Baptist Church and of an elderly clergyman, and an aluminum tray containing a rattlesnake's rattle and a broken spectacle-lens.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
12  She saw that he had never been anything but a frame on which she had hung shining garments.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
13  She babbled of a low stone house with lattice windows and tulip-beds, of colonial brick, of a white frame cottage with green shutters and dormer windows.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
14  Her eagerness began to lessen the moment they stopped at a red frame station exactly like the one they had just left at Gopher Prairie, and Kennicott yawned, "Right on time."
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
15  Instantly I felt a shock running through all my frame; nothing was to be seen, and nothing was to be heard; but a supernatural hand seemed placed in mine.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4. The Counterpane.
Example Sentence: (26 in 2 pages)
1  This old bed has a copper frame.
2  The bed has an iron frame.
3  The detective examined the window frame for fingerprints.
4  The window frame had rotted away completely.
5  It is easy to choose our own frame of reference and attack any ideas that do not fit it.
6  See if the frame fits to the door, and if it does, then finish making it.
7  He learned how to draw the unclothed human frame.
8  Left in the garage where it was damp, the wooden frame had warped.
9  The secret of the machine lies in the aerodynamic shape of the frame.
10  They removed the picture from its wooden frame.
11  We must frame up that picture.
12  It's a frame rucksack with a belt and padded shoulder straps.
13  The door needs to be in alignment with the frame before you start work on it.
14  She heard a little shriek and a fall, and a crash of broken glass, from which she concluded that it was just possible it had fallen into a cucumber frame, or something of the sort.
15  The soup and fish were in the last stage of projection, and the cook hung over her crucibles in a frame of mind and body threatening spontaneous combustion.