GNOME in a Sentence

Learn GNOME 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.

Example sentences for GNOME, such as:

1. I don't think garden gnomes are in very good taste.
2. In medieval mythology, gnome was the special guardian and inhabitant of subterranean mines.
3. And, Miss Eyre, so much was I flattered by this preference of the Gallic sylph for her British gnome, that I installed her in an hotel.

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 Meanings and Examples of GNOME
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
gnome
 n.  dwarf; fabled race of dwarflike creatures who live underground
Classic Sentence:
1  I began to think of genii, sylphs, gnomes, in short, of all the ministers of the occult sciences, until I laughed aloud at the freaks of my own imagination.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 60. The Telegraph.
2  Her fingers tightened about his thumb as she perceived the hot low room, the pounding of pressing-irons, the reek of scorched cloth, and Erik among giggling gnomes.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
Example Sentence:
1  In medieval mythology, gnome was the special guardian and inhabitant of subterranean mines.
2  And, Miss Eyre, so much was I flattered by this preference of the Gallic sylph for her British gnome, that I installed her in an hotel.
3  I don't think garden gnomes are in very good taste.