FACULTY in a Sentence

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94 example sentences for FACULTY, such as:

1. Anna had the faculty of blushing.
2. Our faculty includes a world famous savant.
3. I 'spects it's what you may call a faculty.'
4. She has the faculty to learn languages easily.
5. The last faculty reception before commencement.

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 Meanings and Examples of FACULTY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
faculty
 n.  inherent power or ability; body of persons with specific professional powers
Classic Sentence: (85 in 6 pages)
1  Her faculty for "managing" deserted her, or she no longer took sufficient pride in it to exert it.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
2  Her faculty for adapting herself, for entering into other people's feelings, if it served her now and then in small contingencies, hampered her in the decisive moments of life.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
3  The last faculty reception before commencement.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
4  She saw the palms as a jungle, the pink-shaded electric globes as an opaline haze, and the eye-glassed faculty as Olympians.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
5  She was like someone in whom the faculty of becoming interested is worn out.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: I
6  She was part of the machine she tended, and every faculty that was not needed for the machine was doomed to be crushed out of existence.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
7  For several minutes Munro paced the chamber with long and rapid strides, his rigid features working convulsively, and every faculty seemingly absorbed in the musings of his own mind.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16
8  His work went on in his absence almost as well as in his presence; and he had the faculty of making us feel that he was ever present with us.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
9  I 'spects it's what you may call a faculty.'
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
10  I ardently desired to understand them, and bent every faculty towards that purpose, but found it utterly impossible.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
11  He had a ready faculty, indeed, of escaping from any topic that agitated his too sensitive and nervous temperament.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT
12  In a word, old Roger Chillingworth was a striking evidence of man's faculty of transforming himself into a devil, if he will only, for a reasonable space of time, undertake a devil's office.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XIV. HESTER AND THE PHYSICIAN
13  I don't know how it is, Agnes; I seem to want some faculty of mind that I ought to have.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 39. WICKFIELD AND HEEP
14  Anna had the faculty of blushing.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 20
15  He had left him, as often happens, only the external faculty of memory, that points out each step one has to take, one after the other.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 24
Example Sentence:
1  His status on the faculty is also at risk should he be seen as delivering low-quality care.
2  At Stanford University, department of linguistics is a language center of research and teaching, with 20 faculty members, over 40 graduate students.
3  Our faculty includes a world famous savant.
4  The mission of the counseling services is to help students, faculty and staff gain all they can from their experience at the university.
5  Man is the only animal that has the faculty of speech.
6  She has the faculty to learn languages easily.
7  He was one of the founders of the university's medical faculty.
8  They raged around Sid like a hail-storm; and before Aunt Polly could collect her surprised faculties and sally to the rescue, six or seven clods had taken personal effect, and Tom was over the fence and gone.
9  To begin with, we must consider the faculties of the staff all-sidedly.