MENTAL in a Sentence

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215 example sentences for MENTAL, such as:

1. I made a mental note of her address.
2. She made a mental note of the title.
3. The problem is purely physical, not mental.
4. His physical and mental health had got worse.
5. I was talking about the mental life, laughed Dukes.

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 Meanings and Examples of MENTAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
mental
 a.  involving mind or intellectual process; affected by disorder of mind
Classic Sentence: (152 in 11 pages)
1  Before turning to those moral and mental aspects of the matter which present the greatest difficulties, let the enquirer begin by mastering more elementary problems.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
2  When I looked at him he had finished reading the note, and his eyes had assumed the vacant, lack-lustre expression which showed mental abstraction.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
3  His tail had grown rigid and twitched sharply from side to side, a sign in him of intense mental activity.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI
4  Then he began slowly to mount the street, pausing every step or two and putting his hand to his brow like a man in mental perplexity.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER SEARCH FOR MR. HYDE
5  With patient courage, strengthened by the interval which she had employed in mental devotion, Rebecca again took post at the lattice, sheltering herself, however, so as not to be visible from beneath.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
6  Meanwhile, the lord of the beleaguered and endangered castle lay upon a bed of bodily pain and mental agony.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
7  They loved their respective young men, and their respective young men loved them with all the passion of mental attraction.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
8  In their minds and their mental excitements, that is.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
9  I don't do any high and pure mental work, nothing but jot down a few ideas.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
10  Hammond she didn't really like; he seemed so selfish in a mental way.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
11  The tie that binds us just now is mental friction on one another.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
12  It's a curious thing that the mental life seems to flourish with its roots in spite, ineffable and fathomless spite.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
13  No, there's something wrong with the mental life, radically.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
14  And I do think you confuse the mental life with the critical activity.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
15  I was talking about the mental life, laughed Dukes.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
Example Sentence: (63 in 5 pages)
16  She has only told you about the latest episode in a long history of mental illness.
17  He went mad and spent the rest of his life locked up in a mental hospital.
18  The experience caused her huge amounts of mental suffering.
19  She had a sudden mental image of herself in a wedding dress.
20  The woman will be confined to a mental institution.
21  Recently escaped from the state mental institution.
22  I made a mental note of her address.
23  She made a mental note to have his prescription refilled.
24  She made a mental note of the title.
25  His physical and mental health had got worse.
26  The problem is purely physical, not mental.
27  The ordeal has affected both her mental and physical health.
28  Victorian "muscular Christianity" was all about achieving self-control through strict mental and physical discipline.
29  Stress has an effect on both your physical and mental health.
30  She was suffering from physical and mental exhaustion.