SCOPE in a Sentence

Learn SCOPE 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.

29 example sentences for SCOPE, such as:

1. The land was flat, giving no scope for defence.
2. This group was within the scope of an investigation.
3. He believed in giving his staff scope for initiative.
4. Let us extend the scope of the study to examine more factors.
5. We have chosen to define the scope of our study quite broadly.

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 Meanings and Examples of SCOPE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
scope
 n.  range of one's perceptions, thoughts, or actions; extent; bound
Classic Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  Resolved to pursue no inglorious career, he turned his eyes toward the East, as affording scope for his spirit of enterprise.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
2  There was always scope for fear so long as anything I loved remained behind.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
3  She possessed an art that sufficed, even in a land that afforded comparatively little scope for its exercise, to supply food for her thriving infant and herself.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In V. HESTER AT HER NEEDLE
4  We were so exceedingly genteel, that our scope was very limited.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 25. GOOD AND BAD ANGELS
5  It will be of far wider scope, and will touch on almost all questions.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 7
6  It afforded scope for the full exercise of all his powers, and he seemed to be perfectly at home in it.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
7  Certain it was that he gave her unlimited scope in all her benevolent efforts for the comfort, instruction, and improvement of her servants, though he never took any decided part in them himself.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
8  It gives too free scope to the passions, altogether, which, in our climate, are hot enough.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
9  The first step in the direction of truth is to understand the frame and scope of the intellect itself, to comprehend the act itself of intellection.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
10  The first step in the direction of beauty is to understand the frame and scope of the imagination, to comprehend the act itself of esthetic apprehension.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
11  How well the man reasoned; lunatics always do within their own scope.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
12  Give him his scope in this matter, for thou canst not control him.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
13  I may not deny," said the Prior, crossing himself, "that such things have been, and have been of Heaven; but then such communications have had a visibly useful scope and tendency.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
14  The scope of the society's work was to be extensive: it was to bring lasting happiness to humanity at large, from the banks of the Thames to the shores of Kamtchatka.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I
15  I see a force producing effects beyond the scope of ordinary human agencies; I do not understand why this occurs and I talk of genius.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER II
Example Sentence:
1  He questioned whether the school curriculum was broad enough in scope.
2  A full discussion of that issue is beyond the scope of this book.
3  I'm afraid that problem is beyond/outside the scope of my lecture.
4  We have chosen to define the scope of our study quite broadly.
5  These criteria were used to determine the scope of the curriculum.
6  Let us extend the scope of the study to examine more factors.
7  The extra money will give us the scope to improve our facilities.
8  I should scope out his real goal before I give him a definite reply.
9  The land was flat, giving no scope for defence.
10  Issues on establishing defendant participant mode to extend the scope of application of summary procedure should be analyzed and resol.
11  With this resource behind us there must be scope for creating a successful enterprise.
12  He believed in giving his staff scope for initiative.
13  This group was within the scope of an investigation.