STRUCTURAL in a Sentence

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158 example sentences for STRUCTURAL, such as:

1. Draw a simple diagram of the leaf structure.
2. A new management structure has been introduced.
3. The structure had keeled over in the high winds.
4. The company has a complex organizational structure.
5. There's no career structure, you have to create your own.

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 Meanings and Examples of STRUCTURAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
structural
 a.  of, relating to, or affecting structure
 a.  relating to the physical makeup of a plant or animal body
Classic Sentence: (32 in 3 pages)
1  Hitherto, in descriptively treating of the Sperm Whale, I have chiefly dwelt upon the marvels of his outer aspect; or separately and in detail upon some few interior structural features.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 102. A Bower in the Arsacides.
2  The tall forewoman, a pinched perpendicular figure, dropped the condemned structure of wire and net on the table at Lily's side, and passed on to the next figure in the line.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
3  It was a tall lean shabby structure, three stories of yellow-streaked wood, the corners covered with sanded pine slabs purporting to symbolize stone.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
4  But to comprehend it aright, you must know something of the curious internal structure of the thing operated upon.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 77. The Great Heidelburgh Tun.
5  But owing to his marked internal structure which gives him regular lungs, like a human being's, the whale can only live by inhaling the disengaged air in the open atmosphere.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 85. The Fountain.
6  This triune structure, as much as anything else, imparts power to the tail.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 86. The Tail.
7  So, after all, there was a crack in the fine structure of Jurgis' faith in things as they are.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
8  All the fair structure of their hopes came crashing about their ears.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
9  A faint light glimmered through its cracks, however, and announced that, notwithstanding its imperfect structure, it was not without a tenant.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 26
10  The machinery had still to be installed, and Whymper was negotiating the purchase of it, but the structure was completed.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
11  The form was so much like an organic part of the entire motionless structure that to see it move would have impressed the mind as a strange phenomenon.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble
12  It was evidently the derelict remains of some vast structure, to what end built I could not determine.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In IV
13  While I was musing upon these things, my attention was attracted by a pretty little structure, like a well under a cupola.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In IV
14  Tom's whole structure of faith was shaken to its foundations.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
15  The wall was built of rough stones, among which, to give strength to the structure, blocks of hewn stone were at intervals imbedded.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15. Number 34 and Number 27.
Example Sentence: (126 in 9 pages)
16  The company has a complex organizational structure.
17  The sales to total assets ratio in particular is often used to compare the structure and capital requirements of different industries.
18  There's no career structure, you have to create your own.
19  The software allows you to define the network structure and performs the calculations and updates.
20  Changes in the occupational structure Sociologists from Marx and Weber onwards have debated how best to define social classes.
21  Draw a simple diagram of the leaf structure.
22  The chronological sequence gives the book an element of structure.
23  This entire rickety structure was hanging from the limb of an enormous leafy tree.
24  In the following sections and chapters the singularity and global structure of particular solutions will be analysed in more detail.
25  The structure had keeled over in the high winds.
26  It is important to take precise measurements of the structure.
27  These usually indicate the presence of steel tie-rods used to hold a defective structure together.
28  The typical family structure of Freud's patients involved two parents and two children.
29  A new management structure has been introduced.
30  My grumble is with the structure and organisation of the material.