RADICAL in a Sentence

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43 example sentences for RADICAL, such as:

1. The patient got a radical cure in the hospital.
2. Such an economic organization is radically wrong.
3. Perhaps it would develop into a very radical anarchy.
4. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound.
5. The revolution caused a radical reformation of the society.

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 Meanings and Examples of RADICAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
radical
 a.  drastic; extreme; arising from or going to a root or source; basic
Classic Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1  Thus everything connected with the school underwent a radical alteration, and respect for authority and the authorities waned, and tutors and ushers came to be dubbed "Old Thedor," "Crusty," and the like.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I
2  But I believed that some radical change in my life was coming, and would inevitably come that day.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: III
3  Owing to its rarity, perhaps, any external event, however trivial, always made me feel as though some radical change in my life were at hand.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: III
4  I dare say it was with the best intentions; But I get reprimanded for permitting radical ideas to be instilled in the minds of the young.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT I
5  But they precisely agree in all their grand features; nor has there yet been presented a single determinate fact upon which to ground a radical distinction.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
6  And he mused seriously upon the radical differences between himself and those men who were dodging implike around the fires.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
7  Perhaps it would develop into a very radical anarchy.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
8  For a moment it seemed to me that there must be some radical mistake in my calculations.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. The Adventure of The Musgrave Ritual
9  When he reached the point about the fundamental and radical law, his opponent jumped up and began to protest.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 23
10  Nothing has come to replace that finer sympathy and love between some masters and house servants which the radical and more uncompromising drawing of the color-line in recent years has caused almost completely to disappear.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In IX
11  Contrary to what one would have expected, all this radicalism did not hurt the hotel business; the radicals flocked to it, and the commercial travelers all found it diverting.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 30
12  The South interpreted it in different ways: the radicals received it as a complete surrender of the demand for civil and political equality; the conservatives, as a generously conceived working basis for mutual understanding.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In III
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  The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound.
The Importance of Being Earnest By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In FIRST ACT
15  Such an economic organization is radically wrong.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
Example Sentence: (24 in 2 pages)
1  With such a majority, the administration was emboldened to introduce radical new policies.
2  He's trying to bring together various strands of radical philosophic thought.
3  The radical group in the ruling party is becoming increasingly isolated.
4  What he contributes as a participant in collective life ranges from reform to radical re-structuring.
5  The way we work has undergone a radical transformation in the past decade.
6  The patient got a radical cure in the hospital.
7  The country needs a period of calm without more surges of radical change.
8  The professor's a radical in politics but a conservative dresser.
9  The Football League has announced its proposals for a radical reform of the way football is run in England.
10  The government is putting through some radical social reforms.
11  The revolution caused a radical reformation of the society.
12  The eighteenth century was thus a period of slow evolution rather than radical change in military affairs.
13  Twenty-one developing nations have come together to say, that they believe the meeting will be doomed unless there's a radical shift by the rich nations.
14  President Correa has shown he is determined to follow a radical program of reforms to tackle poverty in Ecuador.
15  A radical committed to social change, Reed had no patience with the conservative views prevalent in the America of his day.