FRATERNITY in a Sentence

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26 example sentences for FRATERNITY, such as:

1. Mrs Zuckerman does not fraternize widely.
2. I voted for fraternity, concord, the dawn.
3. The life of the four young men had become fraternal.
4. Bob needs the fraternity of others who share his mission.
5. The party sent its fraternal greetings to the trade union meeting.

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 Meanings and Examples of FRATERNITY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
fraternity
 n.  state or quality of being fraternal or brotherly; brotherhood; a body of men associated for common interest; company
Classic Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1  Our grand master is still to be named; for like royal kings of old times, we find the head waters of our fraternity in nothing short of the great gods themselves.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 82. The Honour and Glory of Whaling.
2  It was a mysterious fraternity born of the smoke and danger of death.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
3  Ah, I know your fraternity thoroughly, and know that you keep lists of all who have mortgages to repay.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
4  "I imagine that Freemasonry is the fraternity and equality of men who have virtuous aims," said Pierre, feeling ashamed of the inadequacy of his words for the solemnity of the moment, as he spoke.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III
5  I voted for fraternity, concord, the dawn.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
6  Great perils have this fine characteristic, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER IV—AN ATTEMPT TO CONSOLE THE WIDOW HUCHELOUP
7  This artist is much encouraged and esteemed by the whole fraternity.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER V.
8  An advantage this, a strengthener of love, in which even the conjugal tie is beneath the fraternal.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
9  She sat and cried con amore as her uncle intended, but it was con amore fraternal and no other.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
10  Captain Wentworth was come to Kellynch as to a home, to stay as long as he liked, being as thoroughly the object of the Admiral's fraternal kindness as of his wife's.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
11  The life of the four young men had become fraternal.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 7 THE INTERIOR* OF THE MUSKETEERS
12  Besides, to do all this, time is necessary--months, years; and she has ten or twelve days, as Lord de Winter, her fraternal and terrible jailer, has told her.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 52 CAPTIVITY: THE FIRST DAY
13  I wondered if the fact that he was not drinking helped to set him off from his guests, for it seemed to me that he grew more correct as the fraternal hilarity increased.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
14  He wore the rings and pins and badges of different fraternal orders to which he belonged.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: I
15  And so the obscurity in the air and the obscurity in the land closed together in a black fraternization towards which each advanced halfway.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 1 A Face on Which Time Makes but Little Impression
Example Sentence:
1  Bob needs the fraternity of others who share his mission.
2  The racing world is a pretty close-knit fraternity.
3  An association of men, such as a fraternity or union, united for common purposes.
4  The party sent its fraternal greetings to the trade union meeting.
5  The President's official visit marks the start of a more fraternal relationship between the two countries.
6  After the game, the members of the two teams fraternize as cheerfully as if they have never been rivals.
7  Mrs Zuckerman does not fraternize widely.