SEVER in a Sentence

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420 example sentences for SEVER, such as:

1. Allow me to pose several questions.
2. We bought our house several years ago.
3. The artist has several tubes of red paint.
4. The artist retouched the painting several times.
5. Kenneth takes several phone calls from his agent.

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 Meanings and Examples of SEVER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
sever
 v.  cut off from a whole; set or keep apart; divide or separate
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  I lifted up my head to look: the roof resolved to clouds, high and dim; the gleam was such as the moon imparts to vapours she is about to sever.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
2  It was let down to the ground, and there came the "headsman," whose task it was to sever the head, with two or three swift strokes.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
3  The pines are not tall or luxuriant, but they are sombre and add an air of severity to the scene.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
4  He looked upon me, however, with some degree of severity, and then, turning towards my conductors, he asked who appeared as witnesses on this occasion.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
5  But, in that early severity of the Puritan character, an inference of this kind could not so indubitably be drawn.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In II. THE MARKET-PLACE
6  This personage prefigured and represented in his aspect the whole dismal severity of the Puritanic code of law, which it was his business to administer in its final and closest application to the offender.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In II. THE MARKET-PLACE
7  Hester Prynne, nevertheless, the loving mother of this one child, ran little risk of erring on the side of undue severity.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In VI. PEARL
8  Such is frequently the fate, and such the stern development, of the feminine character and person, when the woman has encountered, and lived through, an experience of peculiar severity.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER
9  Frosts will soon set in, and in all probability with severity.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 27
10  A better proof of the severity of my bondage to that taskmaster could scarcely be afforded, than the degrading shifts to which I was constantly driven to find him employment.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXX
11  Mr. Chillip was fluttered again, by the extreme severity of my aunt's manner; so he made her a little bow and gave her a little smile, to mollify her.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1. I AM BORN
12  There was one advantage, and only one that I know of, in Mr. Creakle's severity.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7. MY 'FIRST HALF' AT SALEM HOUSE
13  Sir,' said Mrs. Crupp, in a tone approaching to severity, 'I've laundressed other young gentlemen besides yourself.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 26. I FALL INTO CAPTIVITY
14  Mr. Spenlow seemed quite cowed by the gentlemanly sternness of Miss Murdstone's manner, and deprecated her severity with a conciliatory little wave of his hand.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 38. A DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP
15  "Cessez," she said with playful severity.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 22
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  Kenneth takes several phone calls from his agent.
17  We bought our house several years ago.
18  The negotiators were meeting in secret for several months before the peace agreement was made public.
19  When archaeologists date objects that are thousands of years old, they allow a margin of error of several hundred years.
20  Allow me to pose several questions.
21  There wasn't much vegetarian food as such, although there were several different types of cheese.
22  They have found several fragments of a Roman vase in the area.
23  There were several kids lolling around outside the club.
24  She made several interesting points in the article.
25  The artist retouched the painting several times.
26  The artist has several tubes of red paint.
27  He referred the matter to the Attorney General for possible action against several newspapers.
28  Harry Reasoner, the lead attorney for the insurers, said they were justified in withholding payment on several grounds.
29  The author discovered that the translator had foisted several passages into his book.
30  The table is available in several different heights.