UNIT in a Sentence

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275 example sentences for UNIT, such as:

1. He detailed a unit on a special service.
2. The unit is stable enough on level ground.
3. The research unit is attached to the university.
4. The pound is the standard unit of money in Britain.
5. This unit is now an established part of the course.

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 Meanings and Examples of UNIT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
unit
 n.  a single thing or person
 n.  any group or individual
Classic Sentence: (131 in 9 pages)
1  In a moment, the Home Guard and the militia unit in their bright uniforms shook the narrow stairs and crowded into the room, bowing, saluting, shaking hands.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
2  That afternoon the Elsing home was crowded with soldiers on leave and men from the hospitals, members of the Home Guard and the militia unit, and matrons, widows and young girls.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
3  But the town as a separate unit is not the husband of the Thanatopsis.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
4  was held stiff and upright between them, they formed now a single unit so that if any one of them had been knocked down all of them must have fallen.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Ten End
5  They formed a unit of the sort that normally can be formed only by matter that is lifeless.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Ten End
6  as he moved slightly towards the edge and directed the group in that direction as a single unit.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Ten End
7  The only thing that is a unit, non-organic, composed of many different, yet equally essential parts, is the machine.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
8  What was more, he was ready at once to be the first unit sacrificed.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 2 The New Course Causes Disappointment
9  We often forget that each unit in the mass is a throbbing human soul.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
10  A thread united them--visible, invisible, like those threads, now seen, now not, that unite trembling grass blades in autumn before the sun rises.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 4
11  Like quicksilver sliding, filings magnetized, the distracted united.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
12  Compelled from the ends of the horizon; recalled from the edge of appalling crevasses; they crashed; solved; united.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
13  Hence, no doubt, the bond that united him to Mr. Richard Enfield, his distant kinsman, the well-known man about town.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR
14  And when they were united in holy matrimony, they went home to breakfast at Stone Lodge aforesaid.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI
15  Recovering their horses however, and wheeling them round, the whole three pursued their united purpose of bearing to the earth the Disinherited Knight.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
Example Sentence: (144 in 10 pages)
16  Pushing the number of unit sales up every quarter can't be continued indefinitely.
17  In most countries, the family unit is still the cornerstone of society.
18  This unit teaches students how to administer First Aid.
19  This unit is now an established part of the course.
20  The cancer research unit is attached to the local university.
21  The research unit is attached to the university.
22  The babies in this unit have various devices attached to them which monitor the vital signs.
23  The fleet is manoeuvring in combination with the air unit.
24  He detailed a unit on a special service.
25  During this period the family unit becomes the natural social grouping.
26  The pound is the standard unit of money in Britain.
27  The unit is stable enough on level ground.
28  Their baby is still in the hospital's neonatal unit.
29  Each unit of the course book focuses on a different grammar point.
30  This police unit was established to fight corruption.