EXTERIOR in a Sentence

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40 example sentences for EXTERIOR, such as:

1. You mustn't judge people by their exteriors.
2. The male reproductive organs are exterior to the body.
3. A letter, like a man, may have an unprepossessing exterior.
4. The exterior slope presented an inclined plane to the attack.
5. These interior facades were even more tragic than the exterior.

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 Meanings and Examples of EXTERIOR
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
exterior
 n.  outside; external or outward appearance
Classic Sentence: (31 in 3 pages)
1  These interior facades were even more tragic than the exterior.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE BEGINNING OF AN ENIGMA
2  One of the facts of which his exterior relief and his internal satisfaction was composed, was, as we have just hinted, that he had remained a brisk spark, and that he passed energetically for such.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—IN WHICH MAGNON AND HER TWO CHILDREN ARE SEEN
3  Nothing of this sort, however, was betrayed on the exterior, as we have already said.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN
4  Beneath the apparent similarities of the exterior mind, the difference between him and Tholomyes was very great.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
5  He had a comic foundation under a tragic exterior, he asked nothing better than to frighten you, very much like those snuff-boxes which are in the shape of a pistol.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER I—HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION
6  The exterior slope presented an inclined plane to the attack.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXII—FOOT TO FOOT
7  A letter, like a man, may have an unprepossessing exterior.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITEN...
8  We say Aramis, because the young man entertained no doubt that it was his friend who held this dialogue from the interior with the lady of the exterior.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 11 IN WHICH THE PLOT THICKENS
9  D'Artagnan walked quickly in the direction indicated, and found one of those exterior staircases that are still to be seen in the yards of our old-fashioned taverns.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 26 ARAMIS AND HIS THESIS
10  Thanks to the cares of Mousqueton, the exterior was far from announcing the distress of the interior.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 29 HUNTING FOR THE EQUIPMENTS
11  Around the exterior wall was a deep moat, supplied with water from a neighbouring rivulet.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
12  It contained neither secret passage nor trap-door, and unless where the door by which she had entered joined the main building, seemed to be circumscribed by the round exterior wall of the turret.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
13  It was an exterior fortification of no great height or strength, intended to protect the postern-gate, through which Cedric had been recently dismissed by Front-de-Boeuf.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
14  Our scene now returns to the exterior of the Castle, or Preceptory, of Templestowe, about the hour when the bloody die was to be cast for the life or death of Rebecca.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
15  The beauty here visible would in no long time be ruthlessly over-run by its parasite, thought, which might just as well have fed upon a plainer exterior where there was nothing it could harm.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 6 The Two Stand Face to Face
Example Sentence:
1  In short the crystal is about the exterior form, not about the displays or the experience inside the building.
2  I like the interior but the exterior is a bit plain, stale, and hard looking.
3  His coarse, hard-bitten exterior does belie his inner sensitivity.
4  At eighteen most people wish to please, and the conviction that they have not an exterior likely to second that desire brings anything but gratification.
5  Each beautifully designed teapot has a raised pattern on the exterior.
6  Her rather tough and worldly exterior hides a very soft and sensitive heart.
7  According to Mandy, Pat's tough exterior hides a shy and sensitive soul.
8  The male reproductive organs are exterior to the body.
9  You mustn't judge people by their exteriors.