FIGURE in a Sentence

Learn FIGURE 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.

409 example sentences for FIGURE, such as:

1. Her dress moulds to her figure.
2. She skated a perfect figure of eight.
3. He skated a figure of eight in the rink.
4. The figure is expressed as a percentage.
5. On each side of me was a figure in khaki.

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 Meanings and Examples of FIGURE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
figure
 n.  a person's bodily shape
 v.  judge, or think about
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  At present my attention was centred upon the single grim motionless figure which lay stretched upon the boards, with vacant sightless eyes staring up at the discoloured ceiling.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
2  As he stood, he leaned upon his weapon for support, and yet his tall figure and the massive framework of his bones suggested a wiry and vigorous constitution.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
3  At the same moment a vague shadowy figure emerged from the gap for which they had been making, and uttered the plaintive signal cry again, on which a second man appeared out of the obscurity.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE
4  Without a glance or a word to the cowering women, he walked up to the white silent figure which had once contained the pure soul of Lucy Ferrier.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
5  Tales were told in the City of the weird figure which was seen prowling about the suburbs, and which haunted the lonely mountain gorges.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
6  Clover was a stout motherly mare approaching middle life, who had never quite got her figure back after her fourth foal.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I
7  She never came out of a shop, for example, with the clothes she admired; nor did her figure, seen against the dark roll of trousering in a shop window, please her.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
8  She had given up dealing with her figure and thus gained freedom.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 3
9  And the human figure was seen to great advantage against a background of sky.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 5
10  And the pilgrims who had continued their march and their chant in the background, now gathered round the figure of Eliza on her soap box as if to form the audience at a play.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 6
11  Hands joined, heads knocking, they danced round the majestic figure of the Elizabethan age personified by Mrs. Clark, licensed to sell tobacco, on her soap box.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 7
12  And once more a huge symbolical figure emerged from the bushes.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
13  A very fine figure of a man he was, everyone agreed, his truncheon extended; his waterproof pendant.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
14  For a moment she looked like a tragic figure from another play.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 13
15  The figure was stiff; but the signature was good for more than that, if it was only genuine.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR
Example Sentence: (199 in 14 pages)
16  The central character of the novel is a sort of underworld figure.
17  Today's inflation figure is certainly too high.
18  He was an owlish figure, sitting in the corner of the library.
19  She could see a figure sitting immobile, facing the sea.
20  I could just make out a tall, pale, shadowy figure tramping through the undergrowth.
21  Amidst the current bunch of nonentities, he is a towering figure.
22  On each side of me was a figure in khaki.
23  She skated a perfect figure of eight.
24  He skated a figure of eight in the rink.
25  We eventually arrived at a figure that was mutually acceptable.
26  Everybody of us admired her slender figure.
27  The figure is expressed as a percentage.
28  As a controversial public figure he has breasted much hostile criticism.
29  Her dress moulds to her figure.
30  His figure is dwarfed by the huge red McDonald'ssign.