DISSENSION in a Sentence

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12 example sentences for DISSENSION, such as:

1. This move sowed dissension within the party ranks.
2. Even Jordan's party, the quartet from East Egg, were rent asunder by dissension.
3. There were dissensions within the Confederate cabinet, disagreements between President Davis and his generals.
4. The event, however, showed the contrary, for from day to day there arose in that city new tumults and fresh dissensions.

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 Meanings and Examples of DISSENSION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
Dissension
 n.  a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters
 n.  disagreement among those expected to cooperate
Classic Sentence:
1  Even Jordan's party, the quartet from East Egg, were rent asunder by dissension.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
2  For a long while she could hardly believe that their dissension had arisen from a conversation so inoffensive, of so little moment to either.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 23
3  After the hussars had come to the village and Rostov had gone to see the princess, a certain confusion and dissension had arisen among the crowd.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XIV
4  Should the ruling power be a republic, there is nothing so likely to corrupt its citizens and sow dissension among them, as having to control a divided city.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXVII.
5  We must, consequently, put up with those dissensions which arise between commons and senate, looking on them as evils which cannot be escaped if we would arrive at the greatness of Rome.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI.
6  The event, however, showed the contrary, for from day to day there arose in that city new tumults and fresh dissensions.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XLVI.
7  Violent dissensions breaking out in Rome between the commons and the nobles, it appeared to the Veientines and Etruscans that now was their time to deal a fatal blow to the Roman supremacy.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXV.
8  The reparation is the prayer for all the sins, for all the faults, for all the dissensions, for all the violations, for all the iniquities, for all the crimes committed on earth.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA
9  La Rochelle, which had derived a new importance from the ruin of the other Calvinist cities, was, then, the focus of dissensions and ambition.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 41 THE SEIGE OF LA ROCHELLE
10  But he now found he had been mistaken, and that the dissensions of those brutes in his country were owing to the same cause with ours, as I had described them.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER VII.
11  There were dissensions within the Confederate cabinet, disagreements between President Davis and his generals.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
Example Sentence:
1  This move sowed dissension within the party ranks.