RESPONSIVENESS in a Sentence

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409 example sentences for RESPONSIVENESS, such as:

1. He is directly responsible for this.
2. I'm sure you are largely responsible.
3. He's directly responsible to the boss.
4. The council is responsible for refuse collection.
5. The insurance company is responsible for this case.

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 Meanings and Examples of RESPONSIVENESS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
responsiveness
 n.  quality of being responsive; reacting quickly
Classic Sentence: (199 in 14 pages)
1  Their enthusiasm and responsiveness are a constant delight.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XV.
2  The only Latin he knew was the responses of the Mass and the only history the manifold wrongs of Ireland.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
3  Scarlett came abruptly out of her dream of delight, for she had neglected to make the responses and her mother was looking at her reprovingly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
4  But his guttural responses satisfied me at once that he but ill comprehended my meaning.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
5  A faded world of fervent love and virginal responses seemed to be evoked for his soul by the reading of its pages in which the imagery of the canticles was interwoven with the communicant's prayers.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
6  The calling of the roll began and the responses to the names were given out in all tones until the name of Peter Byrne was reached.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
7  Again, I listen to Miss Murdstone mumbling the responses, and emphasizing all the dread words with a cruel relish.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE
8  Inside herself she was curiously and complicatedly angry, and all her responses were numb.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
9  The religion of the Gentiles had its beginning in the responses of the oracles and in the prognostics of the augurs and soothsayers.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII.
10  Perhaps Zeena had failed to see the new doctor or had not liked his counsels: Ethan knew that in such cases the first person she met was likely to be held responsible for her grievance.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VI
11  "Mrs. Bonnell's children have the measles," said Mrs. Merriwether abruptly, showing plainly that she held Mrs. Bonnell personally responsible for permitting such a thing to happen.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
12  Always remember, dear," Ellen had said, "you are responsible for the moral as well as the physical welfare of the darkies God has intrusted to your care.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
13  They were responsible for a situation that forced a woman to keep a murderer at her side to protect her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
14  Yes, he is my legal ward and I am responsible for him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
15  I'm sure you are largely responsible.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  Sooner or later,the time comes when we all must become responsible adults,and learn to give up what we want,so we can choose to do what is right.
17  A combination of factors may be responsible for the increase in cancer.
18  We are responsible for the care and well-being of all our patients.
19  The insurance company is responsible for this case.
20  He's an honest, responsible citizen who respects the law and is dedicated to his family.
21  He says I don't think he's a responsible enough citizen.
22  The council is responsible for refuse collection.
23  The elders were responsible for the proper conduct of community life.
24  Even where parents no longer live together, they each continue to be responsible for their children.
25  The tumultuous Cultural Revolution was chiefly responsible for the searing desire for change in China.
26  The department is responsible for the provision of residential care services.
27  He is directly responsible for this.
28  He's directly responsible to the boss.
29  Economic conditions may be responsible for the creation of social unrest.
30  The government is responsible for the provision of education for all the children.