FINER in a Sentence

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34 example sentences for FINER, such as:

1. I've never seen a finer wild animal.
2. She's a fine actor and an even finer dancer.
3. And with it all he was singularly free from recognition of the finer points of the conduct of prisoners of war.
4. This cold officer upon a monument, who dropped epithets unconcernedly down, would be finer as a dead man, he thought.
5. The haste of the column to reach the battle seemed to the forlorn young man to be something much finer than stout fighting.

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1  "Most of them would look a lot finer in gray uniforms and in Virginia," she said, and she did not trouble to lower her voice.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
2  He was just plain Cracker, a small farmer, half-educated, prone to grammatical errors and ignorant of some of the finer manners the O'Haras were accustomed to in gentlemen.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
3  As the walls went swiftly up she thought with satisfaction that, when finished, it would be larger and finer looking than any other house in town.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
4  The soft isolation of the falling day enveloped them: they seemed lifted into a finer air.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
5  These were young girls, like herself; some perhaps pretty, some not without a trace of her finer sensibilities.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 10
6  Gerty Farish, seated next to Selden, was lost in that indiscriminate and uncritical enjoyment so irritating to Miss Bart's finer perceptions.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
7  She seemed encased in a strong armour of indifference, as though the vigorous exertion of her will had finally benumbed her finer sensibilities.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 11
8  I found many, who had not been seven years out of their chains, living in finer houses, and evidently enjoying more of the comforts of life, than the average of slaveholders in Maryland.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
9  The haste of the column to reach the battle seemed to the forlorn young man to be something much finer than stout fighting.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
10  This cold officer upon a monument, who dropped epithets unconcernedly down, would be finer as a dead man, he thought.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
11  And with it all he was singularly free from recognition of the finer points of the conduct of prisoners of war.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23
12  The gift to appreciate and the sense to feel the finer shades and relations of moral things, often seems an attribute of those whose whole life shows a careless disregard of them.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
13  His coarse, strong nature craved, and could endure, a continual stimulation, that would have utterly wrecked and crazed a finer one.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
14  He was obviously an ecclesiastic of high rank; his dress was that of a Cistercian Monk, but composed of materials much finer than those which the rule of that order admitted.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
15  His feet had sandals of the same fashion with the peasants, but of finer materials, and secured in the front with golden clasps.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
Example Sentence:
1  I've never seen a finer wild animal.
2  She's a fine actor and an even finer dancer.