UNIVERSAL in a Sentence

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324 example sentences for UNIVERSAL, such as:

1. All this adds up to a new concept of the universe.
2. But universal and joyous youth rather resembled Erik.
3. When was universal suffrage introduced in your country?
4. Some people believe the universe was created by a big explosion.
5. Scientific findings that help explain the origins of the universe.

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 Meanings and Examples of UNIVERSAL
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universal
 a.  relating to the entire world or all within the world; affecting all; present everywhere
Classic Sentence: (181 in 13 pages)
1  White flour was scarce and so expensive that corn bread was universal instead of biscuits, rolls and waffles.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
2  There was universal rejoicing in that holiday season, rejoicing and thankfulness that the tide was turning.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
3  Scarlett, though filled with the universal Southern desire to believe only the pleasantest and most reassuring things about the progress of the fighting, felt cold as she watched the motley ranks go by.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
4  "I wouldn't put much beyond her," was the universal attitude.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LV
5  Since she had been brought up to be ornamental, she could hardly blame herself for failing to serve any practical purpose; but the discovery put an end to her consoling sense of universal efficiency.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 11
6  Carol kicked off her silver slippers, and ignored the universal glance at her arches.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
7  Dave had given verdict, "What these mouthy youngsters that hang around the pool-room need is universal military training."
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
8  It was not Erik to whom she must escape, but universal and joyous youth, in class-rooms, in studios, in offices, in meetings to protest against Things in General.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
9  But universal and joyous youth rather resembled Erik.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
10  She had left a city which sat up nights to talk of universal transition; of European revolution, guild socialism, free verse.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
11  They it was who by universal prescription commanded three of the Pequod's boats as headsmen.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 27. Knights and Squires.
12  Consider, once more, the universal cannibalism of the sea; all whose creatures prey upon each other, carrying on eternal war since the world began.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 58. Brit.
13  How at such an apparently unassailable surface, they contrive to gouge out such symmetrical mouthfuls, remains a part of the universal problem of all things.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 64. Stubb's Supper.
14  An intense copper calm, like a universal yellow lotus, was more and more unfolding its noiseless measureless leaves upon the sea.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 70. The Sphynx.
15  Thus the most vexatious and violent disputes would often arise between the fishermen, were there not some written or unwritten, universal, undisputed law applicable to all cases.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 89. Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish.
Example Sentence: (143 in 10 pages)
16  That sort of private payment, and the two-tiered medicine it implies, is becoming common in supposedly universal systems.
17  This discovery of literature has as yet only partially penetrated the universal consciousness.
18  When was universal suffrage introduced in your country?
19  Although Jane Austen sets her novels in small rural communities, her concerns are universal, not parochial,.
20  In the Senate, every proponent of the universal health care measure lobbied to gain additional support for the controversial legislation.
21  We are interdependent, therefore, we have no other choice than to develop a sense of universal responsibility.
22  The modern tourist will encounter very little linguistic difficulty as English has become an almost universal language.
23  China has promised some form of universal suffrage for the next chief executive election in 2017 with the caveat that candidates must be vetted.
24  A heart will not be hurt for pursuing a dream, when you truly want something, all the universe conspires to help you complete the.
25  Some people believe the universe was created by a big explosion.
26  You are not in charge of the universe; you are in charge of yourself.
27  All this adds up to a new concept of the universe.
28  Early astronomers thought that our planet was the centre of the universe.
29  Scientific findings that help explain the origins of the universe.
30  Well before a billionth of a second had elapsed the universe started to grow exponentially.