EXPLORE in a Sentence

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95 example sentences for EXPLORE, such as:

1. The phallos alone could explore it.
2. He proposed to explore another passage.
3. It is certainly a strategy worth exploring.
4. She was about to explore another life with Frank.
5. Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it.

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 Meanings and Examples of EXPLORE
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explore
 v.  investigate systematically; search and discover about something
Classic Sentence: (48 in 4 pages)
1  He had indeed begun to wonder if it might not be wise to send some one out to explore the garden paths.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
2  Then Tom hid himself away in a shady nook to sleep till noon, and the other pirates got ready to fish and explore.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
3  He wanted to explore its borders, but concluded that it would be best to sit down and rest awhile, first.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
4  It would be better to explore some of these than bear the weight of the heavy time in idleness.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
5  He proposed to explore another passage.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
6  The phallos alone could explore it.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
7  Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
8  From there I should explore every hut upon the moor until I lighted upon the right one.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11. The Man on the Tor
9  Upon that machine,' said the Time Traveller, holding the lamp aloft, 'I intend to explore time.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In I
10  This difference in aspect suggested a difference in use, and I was minded to push on and explore.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In VI
11  Only the trained diver can go down into those depths and explore them and come to the surface again.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
12  I knew he had left the castle now, and thought to use the opportunity to explore more than I had dared to do as yet.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
13  She was about to explore another life with Frank.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In EVELINE
14  When he sees the clear sky quite unbroken, he gives from the stern his shrill signal; we disencamp and explore the way, and spread the wings of our sails.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK THIRD
15  Up then, and, glad with the first sunbeam, let us explore and search all abroad from our harbour, what is the country, who its habitants, where is the town of the nation.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SEVENTH
Example Sentence: (47 in 4 pages)
16  The cat walked round, exploring its new environment.
17  It is certainly a strategy worth exploring.
18  But rarely was the music they played anchored in indigenous sounds of their homelands, as the groups eagerly explored musical hybrids.
19  Man, having explored the far corners of the earth, is now reaching out into illimitable space.
20  Leo W. Buss in a pioneering monograph has explored the transition from unicellular to multicellular organisms in great detail.
21  He explored the wound with his finger, trying to establish its extent.
22  The paintings are a development of ideas she explored in the preceding decade.
23  NASA rang in 2019 in stellar style by celebrating a successful excursion to the most distant world ever explored - some billion miles beyond Pluto.
24  The exploration leader sent a fellow to go ahead to see if the road was clear.
25  Drillholes for oil and other resource exploration are major sources of information for geologists.
26  The moon landing inaugurated a new era in space exploration.
27  This book is indispensable to anyone interested in space exploration.
28  Extensive exploration was carried out using the latest drilling technology.
29  No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important for the long-range exploration of space.
30  NASA is engaged in an ongoing program of spatial exploration.