PHENOMENA in a Sentence

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19 example sentences for PHENOMENA, such as:

1. Ade couldn't relate the phenomena with any theory he knew.
2. Those words only denote a certain stage of understanding of phenomena.
3. Science may be able to provide some explanations of paranormal phenomena.
4. His writings are concerned with religious phenomena at the individual level.
5. We kept careful records of the phenomena we noted in the course of these experiments.

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 Meanings and Examples of PHENOMENA
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
phenomena
 n.  observable facts; subjects of scientific investigation
Classic Sentence:
1  Among the innumerable categories applicable to the phenomena of human life one may discriminate between those in which substance prevails and those in which form prevails.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER VI
2  The Battle of Borodino, with the occupation of Moscow that followed it and the flight of the French without further conflicts, is one of the most instructive phenomena in history.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER I
3  Those words only denote a certain stage of understanding of phenomena.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER II
4  But for history, the state and power are merely phenomena, just as for modern physics fire is not an element but a phenomenon.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER IV
5  But to understand phenomena man has, besides abstract reasoning, experience by which he verifies his reflections.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER V
6  Or in other words, the conception of a cause is inapplicable to the phenomena we are examining.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER VII
7  If history dealt only with external phenomena, the establishment of this simple and obvious law would suffice and we should have finished our argument.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER VIII
8  Its productions and features may be without example, as the phenomena of the heavenly bodies undoubtedly are in those undiscovered solitudes.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 1
9  One of the phenomena which had peculiarly attracted my attention was the structure of the human frame, and, indeed, any animal endued with life.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
10  It ought to be like the natural sciences, and to observe given phenomena and the laborer in his economic, ethnographical.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 14
11  When we come to the phenomena of artistic conception, artistic gestation, and artistic reproduction I require a new terminology and a new personal experience.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
12  Caesar and Tacitus are two successive phenomena, a meeting between whom seems to be mysteriously avoided, by the One who, when He sets the centuries on the stage, regulates the entrances and the exits.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER
13  Even in the country something of this segregation is manifest in the smaller areas, and of course in the larger phenomena of the Black Belt.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In IX
Example Sentence:
1  Firstly, unless and until definitions are agreed, we may be attempting to compare the incidence of different phenomena.
2  His writings are concerned with religious phenomena at the individual level.
3  Science may be able to provide some explanations of paranormal phenomena.
4  Ade couldn't relate the phenomena with any theory he knew.
5  In physics, magnetism is one of the phenomena by which materials exert attractive or repulsive forces on other materials.
6  We kept careful records of the phenomena we noted in the course of these experiments.