SIMPLE in a Sentence

Learn SIMPLE 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.

349 example sentences for SIMPLE, such as:

1. The church was austere and simple.
2. The tune was as simple as could be.
3. I need a simple yes or no to my questions.
4. It was a simple case of mistaken identity.
5. It's very simple, once you grasp the concept.

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 Meanings and Examples of SIMPLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
simple
 a.  easily understood or done
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  "It is simple enough as you explain it," I said, smiling.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
2  It is a simple calculation enough, though there is no use my boring you with figures.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
3  Weak or strong, clever or simple, we are all brothers.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I
4  Transporting the stone when it was once broken was comparatively simple.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI
5  Another voice, a third voice, was saying something simple.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 8
6  It was a simple tune, another voice speaking.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 8
7  Meanwhile the good wife on the table spreads her simple fare; and to the shepherd's flute, from toil released, the nymphs and swains join hands and foot it on the green.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 9
8  The tune was as simple as could be.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
9  It is a mere question of figures, a case of simple arithmetic.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II
10  The simple circumstance of being left alone with her husband and Mr. Bounderby, was sufficient to stun this admirable lady again without collision between herself and any other fact.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV
11  Once again, Stephen had to conquer an instinctive propensity to dislike this old woman, though her manner was as honest and simple as a manner possibly could be.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI
12  Difficulties had arisen in the construction of this machine, simple as it was; requisites had been found wanting, and messages had had to go and return.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI
13  Several domestics, whose dress held various proportions betwixt the richness of their master's, and the coarse and simple attire of Gurth the swine-herd, watched the looks and waited the commands of the Saxon dignitary.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
14  Having shut the door of his cell, he placed the torch in a candlestick made of wood, and looked around his sleeping apartment, the furniture of which was of the most simple kind.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
15  That's the real secret of marriage, not sex; at least not the simple function of sex.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
Example Sentence: (139 in 10 pages)
16  I need a simple yes or no to my questions.
17  Even the best teacher cannot get him beyond simple piano exercises.
18  Her brother's a bit simple, but he's quite harmless.
19  It was a simple case of mistaken identity.
20  It should have been a simple matter to check.
21  The church was austere and simple.
22  Naturally, we hope every citizen will vote, a simple obligation of democracy with results that profoundly affect our lives.
23  It's very simple, once you grasp the concept.
24  The concept of an arsenal ship is rather simple.
25  This simple physical concept of addictive disease and recovery has an obvious superficial attraction but may be far from the full picture.
26  How simple that concept seems now, but how inhuman, how futuristic, how absurd it sounded to me then.
27  Although the concept of fund accounting is relatively simple, specific applications of it can be difficult to understand.
28  The secret of happiness could be as simple as remembering the good times and forgetting the regrets.
29  I cut my purchases dramatically by the simple expedient of destroying my credit cards.
30  The golden rule when creating your design is: keep it simple.