ELEMENTS in a Sentence

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213 example sentences for ELEMENTS, such as:

1. Cost was a key element in our decision.
2. There is an element of truth in what you say.
3. These rumours do contain an element of truth.
4. A clash of principles resembles a clash of elements.
5. Customer relations is an important element of the job.

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 Meanings and Examples of ELEMENTS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
element
 n.  a part of something abstract, especially one that is essential or characteristic
elemental
 a.  relating to or being an element
 a.  of or being the essential or basic part
Classic Sentence: (106 in 8 pages)
1  Only Ashley and Rhett eluded her understanding and her control for they were both adults, and the elements of boyishness were lacking in them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
2  In such emergencies, Judy would usually have turned to Lily to fuse the discordant elements; and Miss Bart, assuming that such a service was expected of her, threw herself into it with her accustomed zeal.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
3  She had learned the elements of the game from the Sam Clarks.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
4  During all this blackness of the elements, Ahab, though assuming for the time the almost continual command of the drenched and dangerous deck, manifested the gloomiest reserve; and more seldom than ever addressed his mates.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 51. The Spirit-Spout.
5  If this be so, fancy the irresistibleness of that might, to which the most impalpable and destructive of all elements contributes.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 76. The Battering-Ram.
6  The isolated subterraneousness of the cabin made a certain humming silence to reign there, though it was hooped round by all the roar of the elements.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 123. The Musket.
7  Rains and spray had damped it; sun and wind had warped it; all the elements had combined to rot a thing that hung so idly.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 125. The Log and Line.
8  Rarely have I found any of their age, on whom nature has so freely bestowed the elements of psalmody; and surely, surely, there are none who neglect them more.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 22
9  To that mission its stern, inflexible, energetic elements, were well adapted; but, as a Christian, I look for another era to arise.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
10  Probably the principles and the elements, on which the regular gravitations of the moral, as of the material, world depend, had complained.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—THE UNEXPECTED
11  The elements which constitute the consideration of the gamins for each other are very various.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—THE GAMIN SHOULD HAVE HIS PLACE IN THE CLASSI...
12  He was, himself, moreover, composed of two elements, which were, to all appearance, incompatible.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
13  A clash of principles resembles a clash of elements.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION
14  A badly constituted grandeur in which are combined all the material elements and into which no moral element enters.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION
15  Five years' sojourn between these four walls and of disappearance had necessarily destroyed or dispersed the elements of fear.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE HOUSE WITH A SECRET
Example Sentence: (107 in 8 pages)
16  Limnology is essentially a synthetic science composed of elements.
17  Before making her presentation at the conference, Ellen wrote up a neat precis of the major elements she would cover.
18  There, a fundamental peculiarity is that the image elements do not influence each other while the image is being reconstructed.
19  Both the reduction and the stabilization surgery are common practices in spinal cord injuries and clearly were vital elements of Everett's care.
20  There is not the least element of truth in his account of what happened.
21  There is an element of truth in what you say.
22  The promise of tax cuts became the dominant element in the campaign.
23  His testimony was an important element of the Prosecution case.
24  The victim's conduct had involved an element of provocation.
25  His version of events does contain an element of truth.
26  These rumours do contain an element of truth.
27  Cost was a key element in our decision.
28  Customer relations is an important element of the job.
29  The first element of success is the determination to succeed.
30  Natural selection is a key element of Darwin's theory of evolution.