TYPICAL in a Sentence

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59 example sentences for TYPICAL, such as:

1. It was typical of her to forget.
2. This is a typical schoolgirl fantasy.
3. This painting is typical of his work.
4. I hastened to assure him I was not in the least typical.
5. They plan to recreate a typical English village in Japan.

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 Meanings and Examples of TYPICAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
typical
 a.  conforming to a type; representative
Classic Sentence:
1  No one, for instance, could have made a more typical Goya than Carry Fisher, with her short dark-skinned face, the exaggerated glow of her eyes, the provocation of her frankly-painted smile.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
2  Though Juanita Haydock was highly advanced in the matters of finger-bowls, doilies, and bath-mats, her "refreshments" were typical of all the afternoon-coffees.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
3  She turned her shoulder on him, stared through the back window, studying this typical center of a typical Main Street block, a vista hidden from casual strollers.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
4  He escorted them to the house, which was one of a long row of the typical frame dwellings of the neighborhood, where architecture is a luxury that is dispensed with.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
5  In Clym Yeobright's face could be dimly seen the typical countenance of the future.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 1 "My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is"
6  The appearance of our visitor was a surprise to me, since I had expected a typical country practitioner.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1. Mr. Sherlock Holmes
7  His aversion to women and his disinclination to form new friendships were both typical of his unemotional character, but not more so than his complete suppression of every reference to his own people.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. The Adventure of The Greek Interpreter
8  Ye that have wronged me are not sinful, save in a kind of typical illusion; neither am I fiend-like, who have snatched a fiend's office from his hands.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XIV. HESTER AND THE PHYSICIAN
9  He saw it now as he looked at Stepan Arkadyevitch, radiant in his rags, graceful, well-fed, and joyous, a typical Russian nobleman.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 8
10  My dream was very peculiar, and was almost typical of the way that waking thoughts become merged in, or continued in, dreams.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
11  I hastened to assure him I was not in the least typical.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In I
12  I was born in a typical log cabin, about fourteen by sixteen feet square.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I.
Example Sentence: (47 in 4 pages)
16  Such decoration was a typical feature of the baroque period.
17  It was typical of her to forget.
18  The typical family structure of Freud's patients involved two parents and two children.
19  It's a typical country estate with a large house for the owner, farm buildings and estate workers' houses.
20  This painting is typical of his work.
21  The typical career pattern was geared to men whose wives didn't work.
22  Pratfalls and other physical gags are typical of Carey's shtick.
23  They plan to recreate a typical English village in Japan.
24  The stronger argument is a functional one, that brains do not respond to damage like typical interactive systems.
25  Isak's story is typical of a child who has a specific learning disability.
26  This is a typical schoolgirl fantasy.
27  Its producer plans to shoot the project on a very modest budget, well below the tens, or even hundreds of millions, spent on a typical Hollywood blockbuster in the United States.
28  As America's children acquire more and more behavior problems, the schools remain remiss in doing anything about it except typical punishment.
29  If you've ever stood on Park Avenue, Manhattan, and felt a subway train rumble by underfoot, you know what a typical quake feels like.
30  That would be awesome - a typical abacus can count up to something like 11 million.