READY in a Sentence

Learn READY 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.

356 example sentences for READY, such as:

1. If everyone is ready, I'll begin.
2. I'm not ready for married life yet.
3. Who are ready to believe are easy to deceive.
4. A ready way to lose friend is to lend him money.
5. He may now be ready to sanction the use of force.

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 Meanings and Examples of READY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
ready
 a.  in a suitable state for an action or situation; fully prepared
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  With the unreasonable petulance of mankind I rang the bell and gave a curt intimation that I was ready.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
2  It shows that the man we are after is not as lonely as I imagined he was, but has friends who are ready to risk something for him.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR
3  Look here, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," he said, "we are all ready to acknowledge that you are a smart man, and that you have your own methods of working.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
4  He had hardly completed his arrangements before the farmer returned with his daughter all dressed and ready for a start.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE
5  June came and the hay was almost ready for cutting.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II
6  At the graveside Snowball made a little speech, emphasising the need for all animals to be ready to die for Animal Farm if need be.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV
7  They were just getting their clutches ready for the spring sitting, and they protested that to take the eggs away now was murder.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
8  This brought them to the fireside, where the easy-chair was drawn cosily up, and the tea-things stood ready to the sitter's elbow, the very sugar in the cup.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THE LAST NIGHT
9  These particulars struck me, I confess, disagreeably; and as I followed him into the bright light of the consulting-room, I kept my hand ready on my weapon.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER DR. LANYON'S NARRATIVE
10  I made this choice perhaps with some unconscious reservation, for I neither gave up the house in Soho, nor destroyed the clothes of Edward Hyde, which still lay ready in my cabinet.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
11  With a rule and a pair of scales, and the multiplication table always in his pocket, sir, ready to weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you exactly what it comes to.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II
12  A man with a pervading appearance on him of being inflated like a balloon, and ready to start.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV
13  Mr. Gradgrind and his friend Bounderby stood near the door, ready to take her away.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V
14  I keep the nine oils ready for him, and I know he will come back.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX
15  The bell was ringing, and the Serpent was a Serpent of many coils, and the Elephant was getting ready.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII
Example Sentence: (146 in 10 pages)
16  He may now be ready to sanction the use of force.
17  The definitive version of the text is ready to be published.
18  I'm ready to go home now but I don't want to drag you away if you're enjoying yourself.
19  A ready way to lose friend is to lend him money.
20  If everyone is ready, I'll begin.
21  We hid himself behind the bushes, ready to pounce on the intruder.
22  Who are ready to believe are easy to deceive.
23  I'm not ready for married life yet.
24  They're ready to cut the federal budget deficit for the next fiscal year.
25  At the age when most people retire, he is ready to face a new career.
26  He's ready to play and just waiting to get the nod from the team coach.
27  Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
28  Reading make a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
29  Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
30  The builders have marked off a corner of field ready for the new building.