AGENT in a Sentence

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231 example sentences for AGENT, such as:

1. Soap is not the only cleansing agent.
2. They are trawling London for an agent.
3. I empower my agent to make the deal for me.
4. The charity has been an agent for social change.
5. I have an agent who deals with all my contracts.

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 Meanings and Examples of AGENT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
agent
 n.  one that acts on behalf of other persons or organizations
Classic Sentence: (125 in 9 pages)
1  The station agent hoisted a dead calf aboard the baggage-car.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  The Republican Party, the Grand Old Party of Blaine and McKinley, is the agent of the Lord and of the Baptist Church in temporal affairs.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
3  That inscrutable thing is chiefly what I hate; and be the white whale agent, or be the white whale principal, I will wreak that hate upon him.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 36. The Quarter-Deck.
4  That before living agent, now became the living instrument.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 41. Moby Dick.
5  For a change, one could talk to the station agent; but he was another malcontent; spent all his spare time writing letters to officials requesting a transfer.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XII
6  The agent said his face was striped with court-plaster, and he carried his left hand in a sling.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XV
7  It proved to be a long mile and a half, but they walked it, and half an hour or so later the agent put in an appearance.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
8  It was all brand-new, so the agent told them, but he talked so incessantly that they were quite confused, and did not have time to ask many questions.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
9  When they ventured to hint at this, the agent's reply was that the purchasers would be moving in shortly.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
10  The agent explained that the houses were built that way, as the purchasers generally preferred to finish the basements to suit their own taste.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
11  All of this, however, did not chill their ardor as much as might have been expected, because of the volubility of the agent.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
12  And so they went and told the agent that they were ready to make the agreement.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
13  The agent was most polite, and explained that that was the usual formula; that it was always arranged that the property should be merely rented.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
14  She expected the agent to fly into a passion, but he was, to her bewilderment, as ever imperturbable; he even offered to go and get a lawyer for her, but she declined this.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
15  And so Teta Elzbieta laid the money on the table, and the agent picked it up and counted it, and then wrote them a receipt for it and passed them the deed.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
Example Sentence: (106 in 8 pages)
16  The press agent tied himself in knots trying to apologise.
17  Grill your travel agent about the facilities for families with children.
18  The artist's agent receives commission on a percentage basis.
19  An estate agent is a person who buys and sells buildings and land for others.
20  They are trawling London for an agent.
21  I have an agent who deals with all my contracts.
22  I booked my holiday through my local travel agent.
23  The charity has been an agent for social change.
24  His agent raked a quarter off everything he earned this time.
25  My father commissioned a real estate agent to sell our house.
26  We took it as read that he must have been a KGB agent.
27  Since that pianist was not very well known, his agent papered the house.
28  My mind fastened on his admission that he was an agent.
29  I empower my agent to make the deal for me.
30  Soap is not the only cleansing agent.