GLOBE in a Sentence

Learn GLOBE 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.

52 example sentences for GLOBE, such as:

1. Satellites route data all over the globe.
2. America's media companies bestride the globe.
3. He circumnavigated the globe with his family.
4. The silvery globe of the moon hung in the sky.
5. The railway network soon spread across the globe.

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 Meanings and Examples of GLOBE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
globe
 n.  body with the shape of a sphere, especially a representation of the earth
Classic Sentence: (36 in 3 pages)
1  Let America add Mexico to Texas, and pile Cuba upon Canada; let the English overswarm all India, and hang out their blazing banner from the sun; two thirds of this terraqueous globe are the Nantucketer's.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14. Nantucket.
2  In this enchanted mood, thy spirit ebbs away to whence it came; becomes diffused through time and space; like Crammer's sprinkled Pantheistic ashes, forming at last a part of every shore the round globe over.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 35. The Mast-Head.
3  The hated whale has the round watery world to swim in, as the small gold-fish has its glassy globe.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 38. Dusk.
4  Meanwhile, the whale he had struck must also have been on its travels; no doubt it had thrice circumnavigated the globe, brushing with its flanks all the coasts of Africa; but to no purpose.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 45. The Affidavit.
5  Panting and snorting like a mad battle steed that has lost its rider, the masterless ocean overruns the globe.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 58. Brit.
6  As we walked homeward across the fields, the sun dropped and lay like a great golden globe in the low west.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: IV
7  Our house stood within a few rods of the Chesapeake Bay, whose broad bosom was ever white with sails from every quarter of the habitable globe.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
8  On the chimney-piece, under a glass globe, stood a woman's head-dress in silver wire and orange flowers.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
9  The globe does not perish, because it has these wounds, craters, eruptions, sulphur pits, here and there, nor because of a volcano which ejects its pus.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE
10  Europe will have her amphictyons; the globe will have its amphictyons.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT O...
11  The sores of the human race, those great sores which cover the globe, do not halt at the red or blue lines traced upon the map.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER VI—THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES
12  A globe of fire appeared above the glazed opening of the ceiling, casting a strong light into my chamber; and I perceived with terror that a man was standing within a few paces of me.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 56 CAPTIVITY: THE FIFTH DAY
13  At these words he blew a whistle; the globe of fire which lighted the room reascended and disappeared.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 56 CAPTIVITY: THE FIFTH DAY
14  The same noise of a door opening and shutting was repeated the instant afterward; the flaming globe descended afresh, and I was completely alone.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 56 CAPTIVITY: THE FIFTH DAY
15  Above the figure was nothing that could be mapped elsewhere than on a celestial globe.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble
Example Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  This is the world's largest aquarium with 8 million gallons of fresh and marine water and more than 100000 animals representing 500 species from around the globe.
2  Radiation reflected in the southern hemisphere is just as reflected as anywhere else in the globe.
3  Instead of being perfectly round like a globe, the universe might be a bit stretched in shape like an oval.
4  By their use of the Internet, propagandists have been able to disseminate their pet doctrines to new audiences around the globe.
5  Hollywood producers scour the globe desperate for TV show ideas, it's not just about Britain anymore.
6  And there they lay sprawling about, reminding her very much of a globe of goldfish she had accidentally upset the week before.
7  Steve Fossett achieves his goal of becoming first solo balloonist to circle the globe.
8  The average temperature of the globe is well below the optimal for humans and their crops.
9  Satellites route data all over the globe.
10  He circumnavigated the globe with his family.
11  America's media companies bestride the globe.
12  The railway network soon spread across the globe.
13  The scientist developed one model to simulate a full year of the globe's climate.
14  The silvery globe of the moon hung in the sky.
15  Maybe they're so good at getting around they can escape local competition from relatives and start anew elsewhere, producing bursts of new species at different times and in different parts of the globe.