ESSENCE in a Sentence

Learn ESSENCE 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.

41 example sentences for ESSENCE, such as:

1. It is the very essence of the soul.
2. Add a few drops of vanilla essence.
3. In essence, all computers are the same.
4. The essence of language is human activity.
5. The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

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 Meanings and Examples of ESSENCE
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essence
 n.  most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
Classic Sentence: (25 in 2 pages)
1  That is just the essence of every sort of consciousness and reflection.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: V
2  Mercury is a fluid, volatile, spiritual essence.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER X
3  I experienced that feeling of love which is the very essence of the soul and does not require an object.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXXII
4  It is the very essence of the soul.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXXII
5  This relation of the men who command to those they command is what constitutes the essence of the conception called power.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER VI
6  Consciousness gives expression to the essence of freedom.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER X
7  Freedom not limited by anything is the essence of life, in man's consciousness.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER X
8  All that we know of the external world of nature is only a certain relation of the forces of nature to inevitability, or of the essence of life to the laws of reason.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER X
9  All knowledge is merely a bringing of this essence of life under the laws of reason.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER X
10  Vital force is only an expression for the unknown remainder over and above what we know of the essence of life.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER X
11  His mind when wearied of its search for the essence of beauty amid the spectral words of Aristotle or Aquinas turned often for its pleasure to the dainty songs of the Elizabethans.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
12  Time presses, and in our implied agreement with the old scytheman it is of the essence of the contract.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
13  The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
The Importance of Being Earnest By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In FIRST ACT
14  He used to wonder at the shallow psychology of those who conceive the ego in man as a thing simple, permanent, reliable, and of one essence.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
15  The room was a shell, singing of what was before time was; a vase stood in the heart of the house, alabaster, smooth, cold, holding the still, distilled essence of emptiness, silence.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 3
Example Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  In the above chapter, we have learned what the essence of translation is.
2  The essence of consultation is to listen to, and take account of, the views of those consulted.
3  The essence of language is human activity.
4  Add a few drops of vanilla essence.
5  The essence of his argument is that capitalism cannot succeed.
6  The essence of his argument was that education should continue throughout life.
7  The establishment of new international economic order is the essence of his article.
8  Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.
9  The essence of his religious teaching is love for all men.
10  In essence, all computers are the same.
11  The essence of Arsenal's style of football was speed.
12  The two things are the same in outward form but different in essence.
13  The essence of meek is to be patient with ignorance, slow to anger and never hold a grudge.
14  This hormone is the ultimate 'feel good' chemical because it is the essence of love, friendship, and tolerance of others.
15  The idea of penal sanction is the essence of law.