STRESS in a Sentence

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83 example sentences for STRESS, such as:

1. Headaches may be a sign of stress.
2. Put the stress on the second syllable.
3. Some tribes lay great stress on the honor of.
4. High winds put great stress on the structure.
5. Lightness of stress or behaviour was far from her.

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 Meanings and Examples of STRESS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
stress
 n.  put special emphasis on; utter with an accent; state of extreme difficulty, pressure, or strain
Classic Sentence: (38 in 3 pages)
1  These women, so swift to kindness, so tender to the sorrowing, so untiring in times of stress, could be as implacable as furies to any renegade who broke one small law of their unwritten code.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
2  They had always been a clannish tribe, presenting an unbroken phalanx of overlapping shields to the world in time of stress, no matter what their private opinions of the conduct of individual kinsmen might be.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LV
3  She sat quiet, her lips parted by the stress of the ascent, her eyes wandering peacefully over the broken ranges of the landscape.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
4  Mrs. Trenor's unconsciousness of the real stress of the situation had the effect of making it more galling to Lily.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
5  Gradually, to be sure, the stress of the old thoughts would return; but at least they did not importune her waking hour.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
6  He smiled at Kennicott, to imply that whatever he might say in the stress of being witty was not to count against him in the commercio-medical warfare.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
7  Carol worried about their struggle, but she forgot it in the stress of sickness and fear.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
8  Lightness of stress or behaviour was far from her.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: III
9  And the speaker's voice broke suddenly, with the stress of his feelings; he stood with his arms stretched out above him, and the power of his vision seemed to lift him from the floor.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 28
10  And Jurgis was with them, he was shouting to tear his throat; shouting because he could not help it, because the stress of his feeling was more than he could bear.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 28
11  Some tribes lay great stress on the honor of.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3
12  His face was drawn hard and tight with the stress of his endeavor.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
13  In the barroom he found assembled quite a miscellaneous company, whom stress of weather had driven to harbor, and the place presented the usual scenery of such reunions.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
14  Which facts being made known to Hanno the Carthaginian, he, as I have already related, warned the Carthaginian senate not to lay too much stress upon their victory.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXXI.
15  Stern financial and social stress after the war cooled much of the previous humanitarian ardor.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In III
Example Sentence: (45 in 4 pages)
16  Pugh laid particular stress on the need for discipline.
17  Physical stress caused by expansion and contraction can damage components within the computer.
18  A family can provide a buffer against stress at work.
19  People under stress tend to express their full range of potential.
20  Only then did she realize the stress he was under.
21  Put the stress on the second syllable.
22  Headaches may be a sign of stress.
23  A significant cause of stress in the workplace is a sense of powerlessness and lack of control.
24  There is equal stress on all parts of the structure.
25  High winds put great stress on the structure.
26  I can tell when he is under stress by the way the veins distend on his forehead.
27  He presided over the economy during the period of its greatest stress and danger.
28  Swearing on the job can reduce stress and boost employee morale, a British study has found.
29  The other main theory is that stress during birth somehow leads to left-handedness.
30  After the verdict, his lawyers claimed he had a mental stress caused by confinement, and called for the court to suspend the appeals trial until improved.