CODE in a Sentence

Learn CODE 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.
72 example sentences for CODE, such as:
1. The code was difficult to crack.
2. The message was written in code.
3. Tap your code number into the machine.
4. Deciphering the code requires an expert.
5. The shipping industry promulgated a voluntary code.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of CODE
code
 n.  a coding system used for transmitting messages requiring brevity or secrecy
 n.  a set of rules or principles or laws (especially written ones)
Classic Sentence: (29 in 2 pages)
1  Mammy was black, but her code of conduct and her sense of pride were as high as or higher than those of her owners.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  But after all, according to the Continental code of etiquette, it's very bad form for husband and wife to love each other.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
3  These women, so swift to kindness, so tender to the sorrowing, so untiring in times of stress, could be as implacable as furies to any renegade who broke one small law of their unwritten code.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
4  Between them, Scarlett and Rhett had outraged every tenet of this code.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
5  Perhaps the only formal whaling code authorized by legislative enactment, was that of Holland.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 89. Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish.
6  But what plays the mischief with this masterly code is the admirable brevity of it, which necessitates a vast volume of commentaries to expound it.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 89. Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish.
7  The word came by long-distance telephone in a cipher code, just a little while before each race; and any man who could get the secret had as good as a fortune.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 25
8  I confess that neither the structure of languages, nor the code of governments, nor the politics of various states possessed attractions for me.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
9  Jordan Baker instinctively avoided clever shrewd men and now I saw that this was because she felt safer on a plane where any divergence from a code would be thought impossible.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
10  This personage prefigured and represented in his aspect the whole dismal severity of the Puritanic code of law, which it was his business to administer in its final and closest application to the offender.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In II. THE MARKET-PLACE
11  In truth, nothing short of a total change of dynasty and moral code, in that interior kingdom, was adequate to account for the impulses now communicated to the unfortunate and startled minister.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XX.THE MINISTER IN A MAZE
12  It was clearly and precisely defined in the code of principles by which he was guided.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 20
13  And he felt that this fact and what she expected of him called for something not fully defined in that code of principles by which he had hitherto steered his course in life.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 20
14  This case, provided for by a special code, was punished by an addition of five years, two of them in the double chain.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN
15  They are called fathers and mothers by the civil code, which is puerile and honest.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX—A MERRY END TO MIRTH
Example Sentence: (43 in 3 pages)
1  In the event of the machine not operating correctly, an error code will appear.
2  Most evenings there's a party and the dress code is strict - black tie only.
3  Each person's genetic code is unique except in the case of identical twins.
4  The newspaper breached the code of conduct on privacy.
5  Clinics will be subject to a new code of conduct and stronger controls by local authorities.
6  The new code of conduct lays down the ground rules for management-union relations.
7  It is about time tour operators respected the law and their own code of conduct.
8  The code was difficult to crack.
9  Deciphering the code requires an expert.
10  Scientists provided the key to understanding the genetic code that determines every bodily feature.
11  The shipping industry promulgated a voluntary code.
12  Every item found on the archaeological dig is given a code number.
13  Tap your code number into the machine.
14  The message was written in code.
15  Knights in the Middle Ages had a strong code of honour.