ROD in a Sentence

Learn ROD 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.

33 example sentences for ROD, such as:

1. Spare the rod and spoil the child.
2. He that spares the rod, hates his son.
3. He seized a rod and cleared out the Temple.
4. The curtain rod is hung to low and is the wrong colour.
5. Spare the rod and spile the child, as the Good Book says.

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 Meanings and Examples of ROD
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
rod
 n.  stick; a long thin implement made of metal or wood
Classic Sentence: (26 in 2 pages)
1  The archer vindicated their opinion of his skill: his arrow split the willow rod against which it was aimed.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
2  While the Saxon was plunged in these painful reflections, the door of their prison opened, and gave entrance to a sewer, holding his white rod of office.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
3  I fastened the rod on end, marked out the direction of the shadow, and measured it.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. The Adventure of The Musgrave Ritual
4  I gave it a last tap, tried all the screws again, put one more drop of oil on the quartz rod, and sat myself in the saddle.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In III
5  Beyond the undeviating barbed-wire fences were clumps of golden rod.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
6  The vast white headless phantom floats further and further from the ship, and every rod that it so floats, what seem square roods of sharks and cubic roods of fowls, augment the murderous din.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 69. The Funeral.
7  The biggest coward I ever knew as called Lyon; and his wife, Patience, would scold you out of hearing in less time than a hunted deer would run a rod.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 6
8  He seized a rod and cleared out the Temple.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
9  Struck by lightning he was, but he was also content; and he would have been greatly angered had he had a lightning rod to ward off such lightning as that.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITEN...
10  In thunderstorms, we raised a tall rod of iron by the side of our hole, and we watched it from below.
Anthem By Ayn Rand
Context  Highlight   In PART THREE
11  A rod farther on we noted another ear on the ground; and between that creeping mule and town we counted twenty-six ears of corn.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
12  Spare the rod and spile the child, as the Good Book says.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
13  If she struck me with that rod, I should get it from her hand; I should break it under her nose.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
14  After the departure of the doctor, he wanted to go with a fishing rod to the river.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 2
15  Then his heaving breast allays its anger, and he says no more; but marvelling at the awful gift, the fated rod so long unseen, he steers in his dusky vessel and draws to shore.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SIXTH
Example Sentence:
1  Does not bid good-bye forever, our hand connecting rod walks together.
2  Spare the rod and spoil the child.
3  A piston links to a drive shaft by means of a connecting rod.
4  He that spares the rod, hates his son.
5  The curtain rod is hung to low and is the wrong colour.
6  There were hundreds of warrior-robots of various sizes walking about, waving arms and rods, having no tasks to do, but in compulsive, meaningless motion.
7  The model is an odd-looking structure of balls and rods.