DEMAND in a Sentence

Learn DEMAND 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.

351 example sentences for DEMAND, such as:

1. Lack of demand will slow our economic growth.
2. The demand for fish this month exceeds the supply.
3. We propose to expand credit in order to create demand.
4. I demand the submission of the signature to an expert.
5. The product was developed in response to customer demand.

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 Meanings and Examples of DEMAND
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
demand
 v.  lay legal claim to
 v.  summon to court
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  He therefore made his demand with the awkwardness of a proud man who will not admit to himself that he is stooping; and he was not much surprised at Hale's refusal.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
2  He had foreseen an immediate demand for money, but not a permanent drain on his scant resources.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
3  After all, the Governor had defied Jeff Davis' demand for them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
4  The demand for building materials was far greater than could be supplied.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
5  But she could not accuse him now, could not rage at him, demand fidelity or try to shame him, any more than she could bring herself to apologize for accusing him of Bonnie's death.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LX
6  The idea of bargaining for the letters was intolerable to her, but she knew that, if she appeared to weaken, Mrs. Haffen would at once increase her original demand.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
7  She conceded Mrs. Mott's demand so violently that for two days she dropped her own campaign.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
8  Indians were everywhere; they camped in dooryards, stalked into kitchens to demand doughnuts, came with rifles across their backs into schoolhouses and begged to see the pictures in the geographies.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
9  Only the Henty books and the Elsie books and the latest optimisms by moral female novelists and virile clergymen were in general demand, and the board themselves were interested only in old, stilted volumes.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
10  You didn't demand that each baby be a philosopher and artist before you weighed him, as you do with the rest of us.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
11  She felt the demand for standardized behavior coming in waves from all the citizens who sat in their sitting-rooms watching her with respectable eyes, waiting, demanding, unyielding.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
12  I now demand of you to speak out and tell me who and what this harpooneer is, and whether I shall be in all respects safe to spend the night with him.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
13  In fact, I was so afraid of him that I was not game enough just then to address him, and demand a satisfactory answer concerning what seemed inexplicable in him.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
14  Emboldened by this, the Captain reiterated his demand to the rest, but Steelkilt shouted up to him a terrific hint to stop his babbling and betake himself where he belonged.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
15  But in this particular, the demand has long been on the decline.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 75. The Right Whale's Head—Contrasted View.
Example Sentence: (141 in 10 pages)
16  Consumer demand led to higher imports of manufactured goods.
17  The government hopes to increase consumer demand and therefore industrial production by reflating.
18  We propose to expand credit in order to create demand.
19  It is the job of the marketing manager to create demand for the new product.
20  This cheaper model was produced in response to customer demand.
21  The product was developed in response to customer demand.
22  It is self-evident that we will never have enough resources to meet the demand.
23  I demand the submission of the signature to an expert.
24  The federal appeals court agreed with him, saying that the White House demand for secrecy would lead to abuses.
25  Carers from all over the UK lobbied Parliament last week to demand a better financial deal.
26  The demand for fish this month exceeds the supply.
27  That helped drive world growth, boosting global demand for everything from oil and aeroplanes to soya beans.
28  Lack of demand will slow our economic growth.
29  The slowdown in domestic demand was offset by an increase in exports.
30  Increased supplies are needed to meet the level of demand.