GREATNESS in a Sentence

Learn GREATNESS 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.

267 example sentences for GREATNESS, such as:

1. We benefit greatly by this frank talk.
2. Our stock of food is greatly depleted.
3. The car's design has been greatly improved.
4. His business suffered greatly during the war.
5. It was associated in their minds with greatness.

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 Meanings and Examples of GREATNESS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
greatness
 n.  unusual largeness in size, extent, or number
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  No, Scarlett, the seeds of greatness were never in me.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
2  It was unprotected and unprotecting; there was no dignity in it nor any hope of greatness.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
3  Carol had found the dignity and greatness which had failed her in Main Street.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
4  She was conscious of an unbroken sweep of land to the Rockies, to Alaska, a dominion which will rise to unexampled greatness when other empires have grown senile.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
5  Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16. The Ship.
6  "It was the Lenni Lenape," returned Magua, affecting to bend his head in reverence to their former greatness.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 29
7  It was associated in their minds with greatness.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
8  They seemed to think that the greatness of their masters was transferable to themselves.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
9  Oh, Anna Sergyevna,' cried Arkady, 'I shall think it the greatness happiness.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
10  This day the horrible appearance of the battlefield overcame that strength of mind which he thought constituted his merit and his greatness.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXXVIII
11  That speech was full of dignity and greatness as Napoleon understood it.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XIX
12  And it occurs to no one that to admit a greatness not commensurable with the standard of right and wrong is merely to admit one's own nothingness and immeasurable meanness.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER XVIII
13  And there is no greatness where simplicity, goodness, and truth are absent.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER XVIII
14  To a lackey no man can be great, for a lackey has his own conception of greatness.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER V
15  Natasha would have had no doubt as to the greatness of Pierre's idea, but one thing disconcerted her.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER XVI
Example Sentence: (57 in 4 pages)
16  The defect detracts greatly from the value of the vase.
17  From an economic point of view , the new development will benefit the town greatly.
18  Western fears, he insists, are greatly exaggerated.
19  The worker operated the machine expertly;we admired him greatly.
20  People would benefit greatly from a pollution-free vehicle.
21  We benefit greatly by this frank talk.
22  She had never been greatly concerned about her appearance.
23  The car's design has been greatly improved.
24  Our enemy has greatly strengthened during the truce talks.
25  His business suffered greatly during the war.
26  Our stock of food is greatly depleted.
27  My girl friend discoursed on a topic she had grown greatly interested in.
28  The impact of the new legislation has been greatly overstated.
29  Your kind cooperation on this issue is greatly appreciated.
30  The plague was greatly feared in the Middle Ages.