POSE in a Sentence

Learn POSE 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.

85 example sentences for POSE, such as:

1. The model was posing carefully.
2. The task poses no special problems.
3. I s'pose I'll do as well as the rest.
4. The model posed herself for the art students.
5. Pollution poses a great threat to our existence.

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 Meanings and Examples of POSE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
pose
 v.  pretend to be someone you are not; assume a posture as for artistic purposes
Classic Sentence: (51 in 4 pages)
1  Really, it took a lot of sense to cultivate and hold such a pose.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
2  There was no one there so handsome, thought Scarlett, as she marked how graceful was his negligent pose and how the sun gleamed on his gold hair and mustache.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  The others raised their heads, caught by her listening pose, and they too listened.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
4  He watched her in silence but there was a tenseness about his pose, as he waited for her next words, that was lost on her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER L
5  She was smaller and thinner than Lily Bart, with a restless pliability of pose, as if she could have been crumpled up and run through a ring, like the sinuous draperies she affected.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
6  She was growing a little stout, but it did not seem to detract an iota from the grace of every step, pose, gesture.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In IV
7  I s'pose I'll do as well as the rest.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
8  Oh, that's all true, I s'pose," replied the other; "but I'm not going to skedaddle.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
9  "Oh, well, I s'pose we got licked," he remarked sadly.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
10  S'pose not; you Kentucky folks spile your niggers.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
11  I s'pose I can bar it as well as any on 'em, he added, while something like a sob and a sigh shook his broad, rough chest convulsively.'
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
12  "Your master, I s'pose, don't keep no dogs," said Haley, thoughtfully, as he prepared to mount.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
13  "I s'pose you've got good dogs," said Haley.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
14  Well," said Aunt Chloe, "s'pose dere will; but de Lord lets drefful things happen, sometimes.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
15  "S'pose you'd be selling him tol'able cheap," said the stranger, mounting the pile of boxes, and sitting down comfortably.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
Example Sentence: (34 in 3 pages)
16  The move triggered protests from conservation groups and a frenzy on social media from opponents who posted pictures of Trump sons, who are avid hunters, posing with the cutoff tail of a slain elephant on Twitter.
17  A raft of new research published over the summer is posing ever more serious questions about whether neonicotinoids, the most common insecticides in the world, are affecting birds and bees more widely than previously thought.
18  Rising unemployment is posing serious problems for the administration.
19  The model was posing carefully.
20  The first man to be held - said to be a British arms dealer - was reportedly arrested when he met undercover FBI agents posing as terrorists wanting to buy the weapon.
21  The result of the vote poses a serious challenge to the government's credibility.
22  Officials claim the chemical poses no real threat.
23  Drug abuse poses a major threat to the fabric of our society.
24  Production of these chemicals poses serious environmental hazards.
25  Winter poses particular difficulties for the elderly.
26  The task poses no special problems.
27  Pollution poses a great threat to our existence.
28  Instead, the purpose of the story seems to be to show some really weird poses in skimpy outfits.
29  The religious crisis, which caused the Kaduna riots, has now taken on an ethnic dimension and this combination poses a threat to Nigeria's unity.
30  The model posed herself for the art students.