FINDS in a Sentence

Learn FINDS 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.

331 example sentences for FINDS, such as:

1. One finds it difficult to recognize.
2. An eye finds more truth than two ears.
3. Soul seeks soul, gropingly, and finds it.
4. Mum's going to kill me when she finds out.
5. He finds it hard to live within his income.

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 Meanings and Examples of FINDS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
finding
 n.  the decision of a court on issues of fact or law
 n.  the act of determining the properties of something, usually by research or calculation
findings
 n.  a collection of tools and other articles used by an artisan to make jewelry or clothing or shoes
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Whoever chooses to enter finds himself at once in my brother's room.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—THE BROTHER AS DEPICTED BY THE SISTER
2  He escaped impetuously, like the wolf who finds his cage open.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR
3  Soul seeks soul, gropingly, and finds it.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—M. MADELEINE IN MOURNING
4  The jail being in a bad condition, the examining magistrate finds it convenient to transfer Champmathieu to Arras, where the departmental prison is situated.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP
5  By taking from this mournful field the wherewithal to make a monument to it, its real relief has been taken away, and history, disconcerted, no longer finds her bearings there.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR
6  In the evening, thanks to a few sous, which he always finds means to procure, the homuncio enters a theatre.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—HE IS AGREEABLE
7  One left them children but yesterday; today, one finds them disquieting to the feelings.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—LUX FACTA EST
8  The man who picks it up opens it and finds in it a note addressed to some prisoner in that yard.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—EMBRYONIC FORMATION OF CRIMES IN THE INCUBATIO...
9  He strolled out beyond the Salpetriere into deserted regions; that is where windfalls are to be found; where there is no one, one always finds something.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAI...
10  One finds it difficult to recognize.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—ORIGIN
11  Great accidents are the law; the order of things cannot do without them; and, judging from the apparition of comets, one would be tempted to think that Heaven itself finds actors needed for its performance.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER II—PRELIMINARY GAYETIES
12  For our own part, we never pronounce those words without pain and without respect, for when philosophy fathoms the facts to which they correspond, it often finds many a grandeur beside these miseries.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND...
13  Youth is made thus; it quickly dries its eyes; it finds sorrow useless and does not accept it.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—DAWN
14  Carol had the empty expression of one who finds that she has been affectionately bowing to a complete stranger.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
15  All dressed and dusty as he is, Jonah throws himself into his berth, and finds the little state-room ceiling almost resting on his forehead.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9. The Sermon.
Example Sentence: (121 in 9 pages)
16  An eye finds more truth than two ears.
17  He is the happiest,be he King or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
18  He finds it hard to live within his income.
19  Revered by many, the institution now finds itself confronted by critics.
20  My mother will kill me when she finds out what I've done.
21  Mum's going to kill me when she finds out.
22  She finds it impossible to shut out the memory of the accident.
23  When she finds the right neighborhood, she interviews neighbors and mail carriers to verify the addresses.
24  There's sure to be a fuss when the owner of the house finds the window's broken.
25  A youthful teacher, he finds himself an unwilling participant in school politics.
26  The dry riverbed finds no thanks for its past.
27  Laurie finds it difficult to relate to children.
28  Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.
29  His furniture is in storage while he finds a new house.
30  It finds that students in coed dorms are far more likely than those in single-sex dorms to drink alcohol regularly.