SHED in a Sentence

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239 example sentences for SHED, such as:

1. He planned to build on a shed.
2. There was a garden spade in the shed.
3. David built us a shed in the back yard.
4. Scarlett shed her bonnet and her cloak.
5. Vegetarianism has shed its cranky image.

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 Meanings and Examples of SHED
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
shed
 v.  get rid of ; cast off; cause to pour forth
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The villagers, being afoot, were the first to climb the slope to the main street, while the country neighbours packed themselves more slowly into the sleighs under the shed.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
2  "Hold on a minute while I unhitch the colt," Denis called to her, springing toward the shed.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
3  Ethan set about unloading the logs and when he had finished his job he pushed open the glazed door of the shed which the builder used as his office.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
4  Gerald O'Hara had three years' crops of cotton stored under the shed near the gin house at Tara, but little good it did him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
5  "Mr. Lincoln, the merciful and just, who cries large tears over Mrs. Bixby's five boys, hasn't any tears to shed about the thousands of Yankees dying at Andersonville," said Rhett, his mouth twisting.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
6  Lying in the pitiless sun, shoulder to shoulder, head to feet, were hundreds of wounded men, lining the tracks, the sidewalks, stretched out in endless rows under the car shed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
7  Without the wall of buildings on either side and with the car shed gone, the railroad tracks seemed bare and exposed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
8  The lamp on the table shed a quiet yellow glow on the four smooth heads bent to their needlework.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
9  Scarlett shed her bonnet and her cloak.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXI
10  Miss Bart was a keen reader of her own heart, and she saw that her sudden preoccupation with Selden was due to the fact that his presence shed a new light on her surroundings.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
11  She had, to a shade, the exact manner between victory and defeat: every insinuation was shed without an effort by the bright indifference of her manner.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
12  The quality of Mrs. Bry's hospitality, and of the tips her husband had presumably imparted, lent to the manner of the English ladies a general effusiveness which shed the rosiest light over their hostess's future.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
13  She dropped to the seat without answering, but the electric lamp at the bend of the path shed a gleam on the struggling misery of her face.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
14  Freddy, barely out of college, had risen above the horizon since Lily's eclipse, and she now saw with surprise what an effulgence he shed on the outer twilight of Mrs. Hatch's existence.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 9
15  She lay awake viewing her situation in the crude light which Rosedale's visit had shed on it.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 11
Example Sentence: (29 in 2 pages)
1  If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.
2  David built us a shed in the back yard.
3  He planned to build on a shed.
4  I managed to scrounge the materials to build a shed.
5  Too much blood has already been shed in this conflict.
6  I shut the shed door and wedged it with a log of wood.
7  There was a garden spade in the shed.
8  Vegetarianism has shed its cranky image.
9  The industry is trying to shed its negative image.
10  Their research aims to shed light on the workings of the human mind.
11  We're using the shed as a temporary store for all our stuff.
12  To make it more efficient and receive much needed World Bank funds, the government wants to shed 14,000 jobs.
13  The comet it had met was itself a visitor from the outer limits of the solar system and the dust particle it shed, and which Stardust caught, have been untouched since the Solar System formed billions of years ago.
14  After the ransom is paid and your dead body is found, I will shed many tears for the reality of your unreason.
15  In the three decades after 1945, Britain shed virtually all of the colonies that had taken centuries to acquire.