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72 example sentences for REFINE, such as:

1. Their daily work is to refine crude oil.
2. The new model has a number of refinements.
3. This particular model has a further refinement.
4. Oil is refined to remove naturally occurring impurities.
5. The senses could refine, and the intellect could degrade.

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 Meanings and Examples of REFINE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
refine
 v.  purify; make more precise; improve
Classic Sentence: (56 in 4 pages)
1  I had ample leisure to refine upon my uneasiness: for Steerforth was at Oxford, as he wrote to me, and when I was not at the Commons, I was very much alone.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 26. I FALL INTO CAPTIVITY
2  The senses could refine, and the intellect could degrade.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4
3  In the matter of civilization, he must not refine, but he must sublime.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE N...
4  were pre-eminently careful and refined in their choice of words and phrases.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII
5  Your sort, you gentry, can never get beyond refined submission or refined indignation, and that's no good.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
6  On the contrary, your acquaintances will be people of the most refined type, counts, and society aristocrats.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
7  Seeing the self-confident and refined expression on the faces of those present he was always expecting to hear something very profound.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II
8  Anna Mikhaylovna regarded the refined sadness that united her son to the wealthy Julie with emotion, and resignation to the Divine will.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V
9  Countess Bezukhova was present among other Russian ladies who had followed the sovereign from Petersburg to Vilna and eclipsed the refined Polish ladies by her massive, so-called Russian type of beauty.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER III
10  It was the same face he had seen before, there was the same general expression of refined, inner, spiritual labor, but now it was quite differently lit up.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER VII
11  That pale, sad, refined face, that radiant look, those gentle graceful gestures, and especially the deep and tender sorrow expressed in all her features agitated him and evoked his sympathy.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER VII
12  The role she enacted was that of a refined sweet Southern lady in distress.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
13  Yet here was Melanie, usually so gentle and refined, screaming like a shrew and in front of Yankees too, that both of them were too drunk to walk.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
14  They were so lately come from nothing and so uncertain of themselves they were doubly anxious to appear refined and feared to show their temper or make retorts in kind, lest they be considered unladylike.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
15  Carol was her attendant, and as the wedding was at the Episcopal Church, all the women wore new kid slippers and long white kid gloves, and looked refined.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
Example Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  They refine many valuable nutrients out of the foods in our modern diet.
2  Their daily work is to refine crude oil.
3  Much of the really nutritive material actually was refined out of food.
4  Let him be cordial in his ways and refined in conduct ; thereby full of joy he will make an end of ill.
5  Oil is refined to remove naturally occurring impurities.
6  Laser surgery has become much more refined over the last decade.
7  I dropped the Ann from my name to defy my mother, who had insisted I be called by the refined name of Carole Ann, not plain old Carole.
8  Miss Temple had always something of serenity in her air, of state in her mien, of refined propriety in her language, which precluded deviation into the ardent, the excited, and the eager.
9  To Horace, the satirist is a refined man who sees stupidity and insanity everywhere, but is moved to gentle laughter rather than to rage.
10  The next refinement is to take into account that the luminous screen is typically round: any alpha particles striking outside the round area will not be visible.
11  Wood engraving is a refinement of the technique of woodcut, the carving of a design into a block of wood.
12  This particular model has a further refinement.
13  They've copied the basic design from the Japanese model and added a few of their own refinements.
14  The new model has a number of refinements.
15  The raw material for the tyre is a by-product of petrol refining.