ISSUE in a Sentence

Learn ISSUE 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.

394 example sentences for ISSUE, such as:

1. The issue was put to the vote.
2. And I'm through with free issue darkies.
3. There is wide disagreement on this issue.
4. This issue has caused wide public concern.
5. This issue has bitterly divided the community.

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 Meanings and Examples of ISSUE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
issue
 n.  subject; topic; problem; edition; publication; release; publish
Classic Sentence: (184 in 13 pages)
1  Many of the men were totally unarmed, for the Confederacy had neither rifles nor ammunition to issue to them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
2  "Ah ain no free issue nigger," declared the driver with heat.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
3  "Free issue country niggers," snorted Mammy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
4  Many loyal field hands also refused to avail themselves of the new freedom, but the hordes of "trashy free issue niggers," who were causing most of the trouble, were drawn largely from the field-hand class.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
5  And I'm through with free issue darkies.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
6  But she would not, she told him firmly, have any trashy free issue niggers in her nursery.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER L
7  How perverse of him to evade the issue so neatly, as if not caring whether children came had anything to do with their actual arrival.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LI
8  And in this case there was no doubt of the issue.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
9  In tempestuous times like these, after everything above and aloft has been secured, nothing more can be done but passively to await the issue of the gale.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 51. The Spirit-Spout.
10  The issue was, the loss of the extremities of both feet.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 112. The Blacksmith.
11  Eight negroes lynched since last issue of the Free Speech one at Little Rock, Ark.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In II
12  A negro organ printed in this city, in a recent issue publishes the following atrocious paragraph: "Nobody in this section of the country believes the old thread-bare lie that negro men rape white women."
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In II
13  From this exposition of the race issue in lynch law, the whole matter is explained by the well-known opposition growing out of slavery to the progress of the race.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In IV
14  It was something which announced itself; a chill breath that seemed to issue from some vast cavern wherein discords waited.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXX
15  They made an offer to submit the whole question at issue to arbitration; and at the end of ten days the unions accepted it, and the strike was called off.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 26
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  The issue was put to the vote.
17  There is wide disagreement on this issue.
18  This issue has caused wide public concern.
19  Europe remains the burning issue within the party.
20  A full discussion of that issue is beyond the scope of this book.
21  This is a big issue; we need more time to think about it.
22  The issue has moved front and center in his presidential campaign.
23  The central issue is that of widespread racism.
24  The issue disunited the members of the central committee.
25  The central issue of the debate was hardly touched on in his speech.
26  It was feared that the issue would split the church.
27  The government should issue clear guidelines on the content of religious education.
28  It is clearly undesirable for the issue to be ignored.
29  This issue has bitterly divided the community.
30  The President is deeply concerned about this issue.