GROOM in a Sentence

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83 example sentences for GROOM, such as:

1. We watched two apes grooming each other.
2. Tim was being groomed for a managerial position.
3. Help me to groom the horses for the show tonight.
4. It was the voice of the groom, trying to wake him.
5. The horses were exercised and groomed with special care.

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 Meanings and Examples of GROOM
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
groom
 n.  boy or young man; waiter; servant; man recently married, or about to be married; bridegroom
Classic Sentence: (70 in 5 pages)
1  A groom in livery was opening the carriage doors; a lady in a black veil and a black mantle was getting out of it.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
2  Having left that soldier who was evidently drunk, Rostov stopped the horse of a batman or groom of some important personage and began to question him.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XVIII
3  In front of him walked Kutuzov's groom leading horses in horsecloths.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XVIII
4  Hayne, the same groom who had been at Austerlitz, led up the Emperor's horse, and the faint creak of a footstep Rostov knew at once was heard on the stairs.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XX
5  She was followed by Petya who always kept close to her, by Michael, a huntsman, and by a groom appointed to look after her.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV
6  Some hundred paces farther along the edge of the wood stood Mitka, the count's other groom, a daring horseman and keen rider to hounds.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV
7  "That's Ilagin's huntsman having a row with our Ivan," said Nicholas' groom.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI
8  Every house in Mozhaysk had soldiers quartered in it, and at the hostel where Pierre was met by his groom and coachman there was no room to be had.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XVIII
9  The panes were rattling in the little windows and his groom was shaking him.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXX
10  "Hear the firing," said the groom, a discharged soldier.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXX
11  Telling the groom to follow him with the horses, Pierre went down the street to the knoll from which he had looked at the field of battle the day before.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXX
12  "Yes, I'll come with you," replied Pierre, looking round for his groom.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXXI
13  Pierre did not find his groom and rode along the hollow with the adjutant to Raevski's Redoubt.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXXI
14  The groom recognized Pierre in the darkness by his white hat.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER VIII
15  It was the voice of the groom, trying to wake him.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER IX
Example Sentence:
1  The prospective bride and groom hoped to forestall any potential arguments about money in the event of a divorce.
2  In the United States, on average a groom is 2.3 years older than his bride.
3  The groom stood by idly while his nervous bride-to-be began to primp before the mirror.
4  Help me to groom the horses for the show tonight.
5  This preference could not of course be satisfied for all members of the troop at once since baboons groom in couples.
6  Ladies and gentlemen, will you raise your glasses to the bride and groom.
7  My groom and my page sleep out of the house, and may beset aside altogether.
8  His was the last in a flotilla of boats ferrying guests from the five-star Hotel Cipriani on an island opposite St. Mark's Square, where the groom's wedding party have been staying.
9  We watched two apes grooming each other.
10  He had been groomed for a career in the Civil Service / groomed as a future civil servant.
11  Tim was being groomed for a managerial position.
12  The horses were exercised and groomed with special care.
13  A flat-earther who witnessed this week's SpaceX launch says it was a hoax – and that Elon Musk has been groomed to help fool people into thinking intergalactic travel is possible.