OBJECT in a Sentence

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368 example sentences for OBJECT, such as:

1. We were all too polite to object.
2. The shrine was an object of pilgrimage.
3. The object was a dim blur in the moonlight.
4. Working people everywhere object to paying taxes.
5. A bright moving object appeared in the sky at sunset.

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 Meanings and Examples of OBJECT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
object
 n.  a material thing that can be seen and touched
 v.  refuse to permit some action, speech
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  I keep a bull pup," I said, "and I object to rows because my nerves are shaken, and I get up at all sorts of ungodly hours, and I am extremely lazy.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES
2  He said that he would acquire no knowledge which did not bear upon his object.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
3  In a moment the young fellows had dismounted, fastened their horses, and were ascending the precipitous slope which led up to the object which had excited their curiosity.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
4  He therefore accosted him when he got up to him, with the object of finding out what Lucy Ferrier's fate had been.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
5  Year passed into year, his black hair turned grizzled, but still he wandered on, a human bloodhound, with his mind wholly set upon the one object upon which he had devoted his life.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
6  Robbery had not been the object of the murder, for nothing was taken.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION
7  Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III
8  Napoleon had commanded that once a week there should be held something called a Spontaneous Demonstration, the object of which was to celebrate the struggles and triumphs of Animal Farm.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IX
9  He looked round for an object corresponding to this description.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
10  His friends were those of his own blood or those whom he had known the longest; his affections, like ivy, were the growth of time, they implied no aptness in the object.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR
11  You are not to have, in any object of use or ornament, what would be a contradiction in fact.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II
12  The first object with which they had an association, or of which they had a remembrance, was a large black board with a dry Ogre chalking ghastly white figures on it.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III
13  The object of his miserable existence was to prevent its recognition by any one among the various people he encountered.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII
14  That object is, to be fed on turtle soup and venison with a gold spoon.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II
15  He went in and went out in an unaccountable way, like a man without an object.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I
Example Sentence: (158 in 11 pages)
16  The microscope magnified the object two hundred times.
17  The object of the game is to improve children's math skills.
18  This method involves cutting a very thin slice from the object.
19  A fool attempting to be witty is an object of profoundest pity.
20  She tried to object, but the chairman slapped her down.
21  The object was a dim blur in the moonlight.
22  A bright moving object appeared in the sky at sunset.
23  Pursue your object, be it what it will, steadily and indefatigably.
24  We were all too polite to object.
25  It was an object lesson in how to use television as a means of persuasion.
26  Working people everywhere object to paying taxes.
27  I don't object to what she says, but I strongly disapprove of her manner of saying it.
28  The shrine was an object of pilgrimage.
29  Let this accident be an object lesson in the dangers of drinking and driving.
30  There are many ways of generating a two - dimensional representation of an object.