COMPLEXITY in a Sentence

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95 example sentences for COMPLEXITY, such as:

1. He had not a particularly complex mind.
2. This case of yours is very complex, Sir Henry.
3. The company has a complex organizational structure.
4. The structure of this protein is particularly complex.
5. We next had to navigate a complex network of committees.

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 Meanings and Examples of COMPLEXITY
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complexity
 n.  complication
Classic Sentence: (38 in 3 pages)
1  Nor could I consider the magnitude and complexity of my plan as any argument of its impracticability.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
2  Levin often put his views before her in all their complexity, and not uncommonly he argued with her and did not agree with her comments.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 30
3  At once the whole of his picture lived before him in all the indescribable complexity of everything living.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 11
4  The complexity of Petersburg, as a rule, had a stimulating effect on him, rousing him out of his Moscow stagnation.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 22
5  The world for all its solid substance and complexity no longer existed for his soul save as a theorem of divine power and love and universality.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
6  And the complexity of it increased and increased, for Samosvitov surpassed himself in importance and daring.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
7  Now and again a case turns up which is a little more complex.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
8  This case of yours is very complex, Sir Henry.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5. Three Broken Threads
9  Holmes himself had said that no more complex case had come to him in all the long series of his sensational investigations.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7. The Stapletons of Merripit House
10  It fills up a gap which I had been unable to bridge in this most complex affair.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12. Death on the Moor
11  A minute examination of the circumstances served only to make the case more complex.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE
12  I have no desire to make mysteries, but it is impossible at the moment of action to enter into long and complex explanations.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
13  Now, Watson, I think that we shall find that we have a long and rather complex day's work before us.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS
14  Perhaps, when a man has special knowledge and special powers like my own, it rather encourages him to seek a complex explanation when a simpler one is at hand.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ABBEY GRANGE
15  Yet these people were clothed in pleasant fabrics that must at times need renewal, and their sandals, though undecorated, were fairly complex specimens of metalwork.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In V
Example Sentence: (57 in 4 pages)
16  Wye Lea is a collection of farm buildings that have been converted into an attractive complex.
17  The company has a complex organizational structure.
18  Also present is the concept of aesthetic pleasure emerging as a by-product of the successful ordering of complex data.
19  As the world becomes more complex, some things do, of course, standardize and globalize.
20  Solving complex problems may require choosing from so many alternatives at each step that it is very difficult to algorithmically define solutions.
21  Later centuries saw the development of a complex transport system.
22  Our personalities result from the complex interplay between our genes and our environment.
23  The architect had produced a scale model of the proposed shopping complex.
24  A complex system of muscles is brought into play for each body movement.
25  We next had to navigate a complex network of committees.
26  It is impossible to understand the complex nature of the human mind.
27  Our new apartment complex has a tennis court, swimming pool, playground - the whole nine yards.
28  An Oedipal situation between one child and its parent may disrupt the whole complex of relationships within the family.
29  The structure of this protein is particularly complex.
30  He had not a particularly complex mind.