RIGHTS in a Sentence

Learn RIGHTS 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.

281 example sentences for RIGHTS, such as:

1. I stand for freedom and constitutional rights.
2. Only the negroes had rights or redress these days.
3. There is a call for the concession of certain rights.
4. The law would strike at the most basic of civil rights.
5. All rights carry with them corresponding responsibilities.

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 Meanings and Examples of RIGHTS
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rights
 n.  anything in accord with principles of justice
 a.  free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth
Classic Sentence: (139 in 10 pages)
1  He had no rights at all where she was concerned; this afternoon he had forfeited them all, forever.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
2  The rights of Suellen and Frank Kennedy did not even enter her mind, save to cause a grim inward chuckle.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
3  And should this happen, she had no legal rights, no legal redress, except those same drumhead courts of which Tony had spoken so bitterly, those military courts with their arbitrary powers.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
4  Only the negroes had rights or redress these days.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
5  I stand for freedom and constitutional rights.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
6  But in her work in the library, children had become individuals to her, citizens of the State with their own rights and their own senses of humor.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
7  You are within your legal rights in refusing to be subjected to this summing-up.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
8  I bet we could get the rights to 'The Girl from Kankakee,' and that's a real show.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
9  By good rights he should only be treated of in imperial folio.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 104. The Fossil Whale.
10  Though but a point at best; whencesoe'er I came; wheresoe'er I go; yet while I earthly live, the queenly personality lives in me, and feels her royal rights.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 119. The Candles.
11  Thoughtful Afro-Americans with the strong arm of the government withdrawn and with the hope to stop such wholesale massacres urged the race to sacrifice its political rights for sake of peace.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In IV
12  By the right exercise of his power as the industrial factor of the South, the Afro-American can demand and secure his rights, the punishment of lynchers, and a fair trial for accused rapists.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In VII
13  She was a disagreeable little woman, no longer young, who had quarreled with almost every one, owing to a temper which was self-assertive and a disposition to trample upon the rights of others.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In IX
14  She began to set the toilet-stand to rights, grumbling at the negligence of the quadroon, who was in the adjoining room putting the children to bed.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XV
15  He had had no experience with unions, and he had to have it explained to him that the men were banded together for the purpose of fighting for their rights.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
Example Sentence: (142 in 10 pages)
16  Education is one of the basic human rights written into the United Nations Charter.
17  The prisoners were brutalized and deprived of basic rights.
18  The delegation submitted a memorandum to the Commons on the blatant violations of basic human rights.
19  The law would strike at the most basic of civil rights.
20  The promise of some basic working rights draws murmurs of approval.
21  Union leaders are heading for victory in their battle over workplace rights.
22  They will campaign for the return of traditional lands and respect for aboriginal rights and customs.
23  Using his daughter's case as a jumping-off point, he described a justice system that ignores the rights of the victim.
24  Civil rights include freedom, equality in law and in employment, and the right to vote.
25  Liberty and civilization are only fragments of rights wrung from the strong hands of wealth and book learning.
26  There is a call for the concession of certain rights.
27  The candidate nailed his colours to the mast on the question of civil rights.
28  All rights carry with them corresponding responsibilities.
29  An honorable Chinese citizen should be jealous of his own rights.
30  His courage in defending religious and civil rights inspired many outside the church.