DOMESTIC in a Sentence

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1. We share the domestic chores.
2. China's austerity program has cut domestic consumption.
3. Rising import prices tend to feed back into domestic prices.
4. The size of the machines makes them inappropriate for domestic use.
5. All his wishes centered in domestic comfort and the quiet of private life.

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 Meanings and Examples of DOMESTIC
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
domestic
 a.  house-hold; of or relating to the home ; within the country or home
Classic Sentence: (141 in 10 pages)
1  My life had hitherto been remarkably secluded and domestic, and this had given me invincible repugnance to new countenances.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
2  You minutely described in these papers every step you took in the progress of your work; this history was mingled with accounts of domestic occurrences.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
3  All his wishes centered in domestic comfort and the quiet of private life.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3
4  Lady Middleton piqued herself upon the elegance of her table, and of all her domestic arrangements; and from this kind of vanity was her greatest enjoyment in any of their parties.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7
5  His wife was not always out of humour, nor his home always uncomfortable; and in his breed of horses and dogs, and in sporting of every kind, he found no inconsiderable degree of domestic felicity.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 50
6  She managed our whole domestic life, and wonderfully too; but I did not mean that, though that made what I did mean more surprising.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XVII
7  There was a supper-tray after we got home at night, and I think we should all have enjoyed ourselves, but for a rather disagreeable domestic occurrence.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXIII
8  In her desire to be matrimonially established, you might suppose her to have passed her short existence in the perpetual contemplation of domestic bliss.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXX
9  Mr. Pocket was out lecturing; for, he was a most delightful lecturer on domestic economy, and his treatises on the management of children and servants were considered the very best text-books on those themes.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXIII
10  Quite as comfortable as we can expect a young mother to be, under these melancholy domestic circumstances.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1. I AM BORN
11  This unhappy boy, Miss Trotwood, has been the occasion of much domestic trouble and uneasiness; both during the lifetime of my late dear wife, and since.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14. MY AUNT MAKES UP HER MIND ABOUT ME
12  I felt as if I had come into the knowledge of those domestic weaknesses and tendernesses in a sacred confidence, and that to disclose them, even to Steerforth, would be wrong.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 23. I CORROBORATE Mr. DICK, AND CHOOSE A PROFESSI...
13  On the occasion of this domestic little party, I did not repeat my former extensive preparations.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 28. Mr. MICAWBER'S GAUNTLET
14  But in a merely domestic view it is not so bad as it might be, because Sophy takes her place.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 34. MY AUNT ASTONISHES ME
15  My aunt, being uncommonly neat and ingenious, made so many little improvements in our domestic arrangements, that I seemed to be richer instead of poorer.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 37. A LITTLE COLD WATER
Example Sentence: (41 in 3 pages)
16  China's austerity program has cut domestic consumption.
17  As a general point banks in many countries were highly regulated in relation to deposits and lending conducted in their own domestic currency.
18  Meanwhile, the domestic debate on Denmark's future role in Europe rages on.
19  We share the domestic chores.
20  The size of the machines makes them inappropriate for domestic use.
21  Rising import prices tend to feed back into domestic prices.
22  The taskforce's main recommendation is to reduce Government operating spending to 29 per cent of gross domestic product by 2012.
23  Only a substantial increase in the price of domestic fuel will make local refineries more profitable.
24  In the last year, the Australian government has introduced legislation to tighten up the relatively relaxed domestic security.
25  I would say Americans are more thoughtful about foreign policy and domestic policy.
26  According to conventional wisdom, voters usually make their choice on the basis of domestic issues.
27  A recent study showed that up to two million people in France now live in areas blighted by social exclusion, domestic violence and racial discrimination.
28  They provided toys for children in traumatic situations such as fires, kidnappings, and domestic violence.
29  In other words, there's little evidence that the feline is anything more than a very large domestic cat.
30  She says the leaders will brief each other on their respective domestic development plan.