COMPLETE in a Sentence

Learn COMPLETE 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.

420 example sentences for COMPLETE, such as:

1. The stones form a complete circle.
2. The tale was found exactly complete.
3. The book is complete in ten volumes.
4. The rebels had taken complete control.
5. Their marriage was a complete travesty.

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 Meanings and Examples of COMPLETE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
complete
 a.  finished; ended
 v.  finish
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  As he stood by the desolate fire, he felt that the only one thing which could assuage his grief would be thorough and complete retribution, brought by his own hand upon his enemies.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
2  The hunter's mind was of a hard, unyielding nature, and the predominant idea of revenge had taken such complete possession of it that there was no room for any other emotion.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
3  These three had elaborated old Major's teachings into a complete system of thought, to which they gave the name of Animalism.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II
4  All the animals nodded in complete agreement, and the cleverer ones at once began to learn the Commandments by heart.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II
5  Down on his knees grubbing he held the flower complete.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
6  But for me, in my impenetrable mantle, the safety was complete.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
7  These were the last words spoken by the whelp, before a giddy drowsiness came upon him, followed by complete oblivion.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II
8  Nevertheless, it is your undoubted prerogative to confer on whom you please this crown, by the delivery of which to the lady of your choice, the election of to-morrow's Queen will be formal and complete.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
9  The tale was found exactly complete.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
10  It speedily appeared, that if the knight was not a complete master of the minstrel art, his taste for it had at least been cultivated under the best instructors.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
11  It is situated on a mount at one angle of the inner court, and forms a complete circle of perhaps twenty-five feet in diameter.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
12  He was followed by a numerous band of men-at-arms, and several knights in complete armour.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
13  For the rest, all was grey rain-mist and complete darkness.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
14  It had taken her years to realize that it was really blotted out by this terrifying new and gruesome England, and that the blotting out would go on till it was complete.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
15  The blotting out was only not yet complete.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  The book is complete in ten volumes.
17  The British Medical Association is/are campaigning for a complete ban on tobacco advertising.
18  He had to go through the usual rigmarole of signing legal papers in order to complete the business deal.
19  By the end of the course I was a complete basket case.
20  The affair was settled to the complete satisfaction of the client.
21  The country has been threatened with complete isolation from the international community unless the atrocities stop.
22  You make the failure complete when you stop strying.
23  It can be embarrassing for children to tell complete strangers about such incidents.
24  The rebels had taken complete control.
25  Their marriage was a complete travesty.
26  The stones form a complete circle.
27  The talks have reached a complete deadlock.
28  There was complete mayhem after the explosion.
29  The train came to a complete standstill.
30  The timing of the decision was a complete surprise.