TERMS in a Sentence

Learn TERMS from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

418 example sentences for TERMS, such as:

1. There are three terms in a school year.
2. It is important to define these terms accurately.
3. Before proceeding further, we must define our terms.
4. He wants to come into the business on his own terms.
5. So, because he was tired, he bought peace at her own terms.

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 Meanings and Examples of TERMS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
terms
 v.  name formally or designate with a term
 n.  the end of gestation or point at which birth is imminent
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  With all the rest of the County, Gerald was on terms of amity and some intimacy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  It was for the latter reason that he was barely on speaking terms with his sister, Miss Pittypat.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
3  Melanie and Charles, who were on excellent terms with their uncle, had frequently offered to relieve her of this ordeal, but Pitty always set her babyish mouth firmly and refused.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
4  And they must be on amicable terms to be coming home together at this hour and in this condition.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
5  Now she was the beggar and a beggar in no position to dictate terms.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
6  No, Scarlett, if I am to lend you the money I reserve the right to discuss Ashley Wilkes in any terms I care to.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
7  So, because he was tired, he bought peace at her own terms.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
8  This house was something that the matrons of Atlanta whispered about furtively and ministers preached against in guarded terms as a cesspool of iniquity, a hissing and a reproach.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
9  She wrote Colonel Carlton and to her consternation received a reply praising Rhett's services in no uncertain terms.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
10  At any rate he sat at his desk all day, giving every appearance of industry, for he wished to be on equal terms with his respectable fellow townsmen who worked and worked hard.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
11  Put by Rosedale in terms of business-like give-and-take, this understanding took on the harmless air of a mutual accommodation, like a transfer of property or a revision of boundary lines.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 7
12  SHE tried to be content, which was a contradiction in terms.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
13  I began to think it was high time to settle with myself at what terms I would be willing to engage for the voyage.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16. The Ship.
14  Of those fine cavaliers, the young Dons, Pedro and Sebastian, were on the closer terms with me; and hence the interluding questions they occasionally put, and which are duly answered at the time.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
15  These children seemed to be upon very much the same terms with Antonia as the Harling children had been so many years before.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
Example Sentence: (208 in 14 pages)
16  There are three terms in a school year.
17  A budget is defined as 'a plan of action expressed in money terms'.
18  He wants to come into the business on his own terms.
19  The client should understand, in broad terms , the likely cost of the case.
20  The terms of the guarantee will be set out in the customer agreement.
21  It is important to define these terms accurately.
22  Before proceeding further, we must define our terms.
23  Later studies have taken care to define the diabetic population studied in terms of the presence or absence of complications.
24  Successive abstractions: these define the situation in terms of higher and lower levels of abstraction.
25  Mr Ashdown, the Liberal Democrat leader, toughened his terms for a deal yesterday.
26  It would be wrong to describe society purely in economic terms.
27  In broad terms, the paper argues that each country should develop its own policy.
28  He embarrasses discussion of the simplest subject by use of the difficult technical terms.
29  In economic terms the need to reduce inflation is unanswerable.
30  In terms of experience, she definitely had the edge over the other people that we interviewed.