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346 example sentences for METHODICAL, such as:

1. We determined on a new method.
2. He invented a new method to make bread.
3. We have tried this method out many times.
4. The method / drug proved highly effective.
5. We hesitated at the propriety of the method.

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 Meanings and Examples of METHODICAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
methodical
 a.  systematic; arranged or proceeding in regular, systematic order
Classic Sentence: (186 in 13 pages)
1  There was something so methodical and so incomprehensible about the deeds of this unknown assassin, that it imparted a fresh ghastliness to his crimes.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
2  He spoke in a calm and methodical manner, as though the events which he narrated were commonplace enough.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
3  It must have been a private wrong, and not a political one, which called for such a methodical revenge.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION
4  And yet, to Connie, it was a methodical anarchy.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
5  He went over to the door, and turning the lock he examined it in his methodical way.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IX. The Adventure of The Resident Patient
6  I am a methodical man, you see, and you never know what turn events might take afterwards.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS
7  There was a circumstance which at first sight seemed to entangle his delirious but still methodical scheme.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 44. The Chart.
8  Cora betrayed a disposition to support her sister, and the sacred song proceeded, after the indispensable preliminaries of the pitchpipe, and the tune had been duly attended to by the methodical David.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 6
9  Javert was a complete character, who never had a wrinkle in his duty or in his uniform; methodical with malefactors, rigid with the buttons of his coat.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—JAVERT SATISFIED
10  The preparations for attack are always made with a certain methodical deliberation; after which, the lightning strikes.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII—THE VULTURE BECOME PREY
11  In his methodical brain there were distinctly formulated certain aspects of peasant life, deduced partly from that life itself, but chiefly from contrast with other modes of life.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 1
12  As touching reasons, it may be pleaded for the Roman method, that they are most fit to have charge of a thing, who least desire to pervert it to their own ends.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V.
13  But returning to the point first raised, I believe it necessary for us to follow the method of the Romans and not that of the other republics, for I know of no middle way.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI.
14  Whereupon the Romans, resorting to a method usual with them in seasons of peril, appointed a dictator; that is, gave power to one man to decide without advice, and carry out his resolves without appeal.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXXIII.
15  For which reason, that can never become a perfect republic wherein every contingency has not been foreseen and provided for by the laws, and the method of dealing with it defined.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXXIV.
Example Sentence: (160 in 11 pages)
16  The method / drug proved highly effective.
17  Another method, used especially for figures, was to pour the clay into a mould.
18  In his take-away, Teravainen defies the modern method, for he does not fan the club face open.
19  The professor has devised a new method of teaching foreign languages.
20  Within a generation flight has become the method used by many travellers.
21  They are using a new prospecting method to quest for oil.
22  Their new mining method rates with the coal-miners.
23  He invented a new method to make bread.
24  This method of cultivation produces higher yield.
25  We determined on a new method.
26  They attempted to rationalize the new working method.
27  He applied for a patent for a new method of removing paint.
28  We hesitated at the propriety of the method.
29  For Durkheim, comparison was the most important method of analysis in sociology.
30  We have tried this method out many times.