GENERALITY in a Sentence

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1. The general assigned him to do the tough task.
2. The general has removed the troop to the front.
3. The general had served as a soldier in the earlier war.
4. I'm afraid I can't give you a general overview of the situation.
5. The general feeling at the meeting was that a vote should be taken.

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 Meanings and Examples of GENERALITY
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generality
 n.  quality of being general; an idea having general application
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  As to the time, it will not require very much more than the generality of wills.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 59. The Will.
2  I am sure you have thought a great deal more than the generality of servants think.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
3  My dear Copperfield, a man who labours under the pressure of pecuniary embarrassments, is, with the generality of people, at a disadvantage.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 39. WICKFIELD AND HEEP
4  Even the very place of his captivity was uncertain, and his fate but very imperfectly known to the generality of his subjects, who were, in the meantime, a prey to every species of subaltern oppression.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
5  Of himself, however, the traveller had spoken little; or, if he had spoken at any length, he had done so in a general sort of way and with marked modesty.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER I
6  Nevertheless, said Chichikov, the general equity of this measure did not obviate a certain amount of annoyance to landowners, since it forced them to pay upon a non-living article the tax due upon a living.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V
7  Consequently, the ceremony being over, there was a general reaching for hats and caps.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VII
8  Such were the unfavourable comments which Chichikov passed upon balls in general.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII
9  Finally, he delivered on Chichikov, with acutely-knitted brows, a eulogy couched in the most charming of terms, and coupled with sundry sentiments on the subject of friendship and affection in general.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IX
10  The debate in question, it was proposed, should be held at the residence of the Chief of Police, who is known to our readers as the father and the general benefactor of the town.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IX
11  In general, we Russians do not make a good show at representative assemblies, for the reason that, unless there be in authority a leading spirit to control the rest, the affair always develops into confusion.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER X
12  Ten versts away there lived the general whom we have heard expressing himself in highly uncomplimentary terms concerning Tientietnikov.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I
13  Lastly, as he inspected the library and dilated on books in general, he contrived an opportunity to observe that literature safeguarded a man from a tendency to waste his time.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I
14  God give you good health and the rank of a general, while we will be content to look on and admire, worthy.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
15  She used suddenly to go abroad, and suddenly return to Russia, and led an eccentric life in general.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  He was more interested in telling me about the tactics of the attorney general.
17  The second time we met with Daley, I went with Warren Christopher, the deputy attorney general.
18  They met when Clinton was attorney general of Arkansas and Riady was an intern at an investment bank there.
19  The Washington state attorney general had not decided whether to appeal the decision to the Supreme Court.
20  Clinton named a new assistant attorney general for civil rights, Deval Patrick, who persuaded the administration to switch sides.
21  There is a general presumption that fatty foods are bad for your heart.
22  The Afro-Asian nations had approved the basic general principles of non-alignment.
23  The general assigned him to do the tough task.
24  The general has removed the troop to the front.
25  The newspaper's forecast that the Democrats would be totally beaten in the general election came true.
26  He stated himself pleased with the general appearance and appointments of the unit.
27  The general drift of the article was that society doesn't value older people.
28  I'm afraid I can't give you a general overview of the situation.
29  The general feeling at the meeting was that a vote should be taken.
30  The general had served as a soldier in the earlier war.