SITE in a Sentence

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153 example sentences for SITE, such as:

1. The site of the new hotel is by the sea.
2. We began to develop a new industrial site.
3. The general tried to locate the enemy's site.
4. The house is built on the site of a medieval prison.
5. That sale precludes further development on this site.

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 Meanings and Examples of SITE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
site
 n.  physical position in relation to the surroundings; position; location
Classic Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1  When Gerald first moved to north Georgia, there had been no Atlanta at all, not even the semblance of a village, and wilderness rolled over the site.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
2  The deep pit which had been the cellar, the blackened field-stone foundations and two mighty chimneys marked the site.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
3  The depot had not been rebuilt since the burning of the city and they alighted amid cinders and mud a few yards above the blackened ruins which marked the site.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
4  Each station, each crossroad the conductor called was the name of a battle, the site of a skirmish.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXI
5  The Commercial Club decided that Gopher Prairie was not only a wheat-center but also the perfect site for factories, summer cottages, and state institutions.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
6  He swam the seas before the continents broke water; he once swam over the site of the Tuileries, and Windsor Castle, and the Kremlin.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 105. Does the Whale's Magnitude Diminish?—Will He...
7  When they reached Circe's house they found it built of cut stones, on a site that could be seen from far, in the middle of the forest.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK X
8  He found him sitting in front of his hut, which was by the yards that he had built on a site which could be seen from far.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XIV
9  The next day was as fine as its predecessor: it was devoted by the party to an excursion to some site in the neighbourhood.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
10  He would have let the house, but could find no tenant, in consequence of its ineligible and insalubrious site.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
11  The old man in the arm-chair--Mr. Oliver, of the Indian Civil Service, retired--said that the site they had chosen for the cesspool was, if he had heard aright, on the Roman road.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
12  Nature had provided a site for a house; man had built his house in a hollow.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
13  The site of the fire was now merely a circle of ashes flecked with red embers and sparks, the furze having burnt completely away.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
14  The site chosen for the village festivity was one of the lawnlike oases which were occasionally, yet not often, met with on the plateaux of the heath district.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 3 She Goes Out to Battle against Depression
15  Nevertheless, I knew, while I said those words, that I secretly intended to revisit the site of the old house that evening, alone, for her sake.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LIX
Example Sentence: (135 in 10 pages)
16  The site is in close proximity to motorways and an airport.
17  We began to develop a new industrial site.
18  The spokeswoman said that Nimby attitudes were delaying development of the site.
19  That sale precludes further development on this site.
20  The development of the site will have implications for the surrounding countryside.
21  The company will be able to weigh up the environmental pros and cons of each site.
22  The trust fund will ensure preservation of the site in perpetuity.
23  Developers want to build on the site of the old gas works.
24  The general tried to locate the enemy's site.
25  The site of the new hotel is by the sea.
26  The house is built on the site of a medieval prison.
27  All the materials are on site so that work can start immediately.
28  The emergency building is transported in individual modules, such as bedrooms and a kitchen, which are put together on site.
29  It took three bulldozers a week to level off the site.
30  Local residents have organized a protest against the planned dump site.