WEB in a Sentence

Learn WEB from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

49 example sentences for WEB, such as:

1. I felt as if I was in a monstrous spider's web.
2. She discovered a web of intrigue in the company.
3. When I have spun the web they may take the flies, but not before.
4. When he reached the centre of the web he found the fly no longer there.
5. Alex has written a fascinating article about a possible forefather of the web.

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 Meanings and Examples of WEB
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web
 n.  textile fabric; complex, interconnected structure or arrangement; the World Wide Web; radio or television network
Classic Sentence: (27 in 2 pages)
1  The little grapes above them were green buds; the leaves thin and yellow as the web between birds' claws.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 8
2  No spider ever took more pains to repair the shattered meshes of his web, than did Waldemar Fitzurse to reunite and combine the scattered members of Prince John's cabal.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
3  It is hard, when you have done nothing to deserve it, that you should have got involved in such a web as this.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 1 "Wherefore Is Light Given to Him That Is in Misery"
4  He unlocked the gate, and found that a spider had already constructed a large web, tying the door to the lintel, on the supposition that it was never to be opened again.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 2 A Lurid Light Breaks in upon a Darkened Understanding
5  I think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our web to weave, while theirs is already woven.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS
6  When I have spun the web they may take the flies, but not before.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS
7  He sits motionless, like a spider in the centre of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. The Adventure of The Final Problem
8  I felt as if I was in a monstrous spider's web.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In IX
9  There was not a single spider's web, not a grain of dust, on the glass window of that conscience.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—SISTER SIMPLICE
10  The Thenardier hostelry was like a spider's web, in which Cosette had been caught, and where she lay trembling.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS
11  When he reached the centre of the web he found the fly no longer there.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT
12  They were both caught in the immense and gloomy web of death, and Jean Valjean felt the terrible spider running along those black strands and quivering in the shadows.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES T...
13  A fine web, which spread far and wide, and was very black and ornamented with dead flies, formed a wheel on one of the window-panes.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—THE LOWER CHAMBER
14  This was what she said, and we assented; whereon we could see her working on her great web all day long, but at night she would unpick the stitches again by torchlight.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK II
15  This was what I said, and they assented; whereon I used to keep working at my great web all day long, but at night I would unpick the stitches again by torch light.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XIX
Example Sentence: (22 in 2 pages)
1  Recently, a non-programmer friend pointed out that there is no simple explanation of capability available on the web.
2  The easy way for a group to thrive is to have an active web presence getting its message out.
3  For web developers interested in HTML5, this article looks at support for the specification from the view of industry.
4  Bureau of meteorology web homepage provides the Australian community with access to weather forecasts and severe weather warnings.
5  By convention, many web site names start with triple W, that means world wide web.
6  I convince that the web is the best way to deploy educational content right now.
7  This web includes an excellent page describing in technical detail the differences between different accordion keyboards - piano, chromatic, and uniform.
8  A ray of sunlight illuminated every filament of the spider web, turning the web into a net of gold.
9  The journal's web site hasn't been updated to the current issue, so not even the abstract is available at the moment.
10  Khronos has set up a working group to create a standard for accelerated 3D graphics on the web.
11  Alex has written a fascinating article about a possible forefather of the web.
12  Whether you are a man or woman surfing around and socializing on the web, the choice of doing it safely and securely is yours.
13  The diploma course would offer remote access to course materials via the Internet's world wide web.
14  Press the "reload" button on your web browser to refresh the site and get the most current version.
15  She discovered a web of intrigue in the company.