EFFICACY in a Sentence

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17 example sentences for EFFICACY, such as:

1. Example is always more efficacious than precept.
2. That was sure, efficacious, and free from danger.
3. Elizabeth had nothing to propose of deeper efficacy.
4. No study is more efficacious and more fecund in instruction.
5. It soon proved its efficacy, and redeemed the leech's pledge.

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 Meanings and Examples of EFFICACY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
efficacy
 n.  power to produce desired effect
Classic Sentence:
1  It soon proved its efficacy, and redeemed the leech's pledge.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE INTERVIEW
2  Souls, it is said, more souls than one, were brought to the truth by the efficacy of that sermon, and vowed within themselves to cherish a holy gratitude towards Mr. Dimmesdale throughout the long hereafter.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE MINISTER'S VIGIL
3  It was impossible to doubt that, whatever painful efficacy there might be in the secret sting of remorse, a deadlier venom had been infused into it by the hand that proffered relief.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER
4  The evil side of my nature, to which I had now transferred the stamping efficacy, was less robust and less developed than the good which I had just deposed.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
5  It is worthy of remark, as a curious physical instance of the efficacy of a sudden surprise in counteracting the effects of extreme fear, that her voice had quite recovered all its official asperity.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
6  Elizabeth had nothing to propose of deeper efficacy.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
7  It is also to be said that their position enables them to operate changes with less effort and greater efficacy.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V.
8  Such commands are useful in a republic, as restoring its ordinances to their original efficacy and excellence.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: Chapter XXII.—That the severity of Manlius Torquatus and ...
9  The scout listened to the tremulous voice in which the veteran delivered these words, and shook his head slowly when they were ended, as one who doubted their efficacy.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33
10  That was sure, efficacious, and free from danger.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER X—TARIFF OF LICENSED CABS: TWO FRANCS AN HOUR
11  No study is more efficacious and more fecund in instruction.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—ROOTS
12  Science, after having long groped about, now knows that the most fecundating and the most efficacious of fertilizers is human manure.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA
13  The design was efficacious; for I remember that my mother seemed more at ease during the rest of the evening, and that Peggotty observed her less.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 8. MY HOLIDAYS. ESPECIALLY ONE HAPPY AFTERNOON
14  For although this last may sometimes, as in the case of Rome, afford an efficacious remedy, it is too hazardous a remedy to make us ever wish to employ it.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I.
Example Sentence:
1  The efficacy of this drug depends on the regularity of the dosage.
2  Example is always more efficacious than precept.
3  It occurs to me that example is always more efficacious than precept.