GEOGRAPHY in a Sentence

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16 example sentences for GEOGRAPHY, such as:

1. Everyone dosses about in geography classes.
2. Perhaps it is a grammar, perhaps a history, or geography.
3. A little boy had been taught geography by an old woman who kept two brushes in her wardrobe.
4. With a fine disregard for geography, she decided to start her journey to Paris by sailing to the Hook of Holland.
5. A hydrosphere in physical geography describes the collective mass of water found on, under, and over the surface of a planet.

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 Meanings and Examples of GEOGRAPHY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
geography
 n.  study of the earth's surface; includes people's responses to topography and climate and soil and vegetation
Classic Sentence:
1  There was a picture of the earth on the first page of his geography: a big ball in the middle of clouds.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
2  He opened the geography to study the lesson; but he could not learn the names of places in America.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
3  He turned to the flyleaf of the geography and read what he had written there: himself, his name and where he was.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
4  A little boy had been taught geography by an old woman who kept two brushes in her wardrobe.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
5  I had no compass with me and was so slenderly acquainted with the geography of this part of the world that the sun was of little benefit to me.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
6  Perhaps it is a grammar, perhaps a history, or geography.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE
7  And suddenly he saw vividly before him a long-forgotten, kindly old man who had given him geography lessons in Switzerland.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER XV
8  And yet the former history continues to be studied side by side with the laws of statistics, geography, political economy, comparative philology, and geology, which directly contradict its assumptions.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER XII
9  He was now to go to bed; that was an old turn-up bedstead; in it he lay and thought about his geography lesson, and of Zealand, and of all that his master had told him.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE DREAM OF LITTLE TUK
10  These could already read, write, and sew; and to them I taught the elements of grammar, geography, history, and the finer kinds of needlework.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
11  Indians were everywhere; they camped in dooryards, stalked into kitchens to demand doughnuts, came with rifles across their backs into schoolhouses and begged to see the pictures in the geographies.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
Example Sentence:
1  Now the master, mellow almost to the verge of geniality, put his chair aside, turned his back to the audience, and began to draw a map of America on the blackboard, to exercise the geography class upon.
2  The superintendent of Lowood (for such was this lady) having taken her seat before a pair of globes placed on one of the tables, summoned the first class round her, and commenced giving a lesson on geography; the lower classes were called by the teachers: repetitions in history, grammar, &c., went on for an hour.
3  A hydrosphere in physical geography describes the collective mass of water found on, under, and over the surface of a planet.
4  Everyone dosses about in geography classes.
5  With a fine disregard for geography, she decided to start her journey to Paris by sailing to the Hook of Holland.