CONSISTENT in a Sentence

Learn CONSISTENT 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.
277 example sentences for CONSISTENT, such as:
1. She is a consistent girl in her feeling.
2. We need to be consistent in our approach.
3. You preach, about as consistent as they did.
4. He appears to be a very consistent character.
5. Your conduct is not consistent with what you say.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of CONSISTENT
consistent
 a.  (sometimes followed by `with') in agreement or consistent or reliable
 a.  capable of being reproduced
Classic Sentence: (200 in 14 pages)
1  He was as much amused and interested, at present, as it became so fine a gentleman to be; perhaps even more than it would have been consistent with his reputation to confess.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
2  It was not consistent with Wamba's humour to travel long in silence.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
3  Her countenance expressed the deepest sorrow that is consistent with resignation.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
4  His kindness to his little cousin was consistent with his situation and rights: he made her some very pretty presents, and laughed at her.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
5  Fanny is the only one who has judged rightly throughout; who has been consistent.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
6  Readers can therefore choose between the endings, and those with an austere artistic code can assume the more consistent conclusion to be the true one.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: 3 The Serious Discourse of Clym with His Cousin
7  He appears to be a very consistent character.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13. Fixing the Nets
8  At last, I desperately considered that the thing I contemplated must be done, and that it had best be done in the least improbable manner consistent with the circumstances.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II
9  After I had turned the worst point of my illness, I began to notice that while all its other features changed, this one consistent feature did not change.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LVII
10  "You don't eat 'em," returned Mr. Pumblechook, sighing and nodding his head several times, as if he might have expected that, and as if abstinence from watercresses were consistent with my downfall.'
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LVIII
11  You preach, about as consistent as they did.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 52. I ASSIST AT AN EXPLOSION
12  He made a joke or two, and talked just as much as was consistent with due decorum, and began work.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5
13  You have already as good as put your hand to the plough: you are too consistent to withdraw it.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
14  But I thought it more consistent with prudence and justice to pass the remainder of my days with my wife and family.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER IX.
15  She therefore put the boy on the ground, and, adjusting her dress and bonnet, she walked on at as rapid a pace as she thought consistent with the preservation of appearances.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
Example Sentence: (77 in 6 pages)
1  We need to be consistent in our approach.
2  There has been a consistent improvement in her attitude.
3  Your conduct is not consistent with what you say.
4  We do not consider his behaviour to be consistent with the holding of a high-ranking job.
5  Yet the way men define their role has remained remarkably consistent.
6  She is a consistent girl in her feeling.
7  He has been Milan's most consistent player this season.
8  However the quantities derived from these parameters, which relate to biologically meaningful quantities, are very consistent.
9  We need results that are consistent throughout the year.
10  He's recently signed a new 120 million dollar contract with his British-based record company after more than five years of consistent album hits and number one singles.
11  At the very least, to be consistent, you should remain mute when confronted with those who do feel they have some grasp on Truth.
12  His consistent support of the party has proved that he is a stalwart and loyal member.
13  A standardized test is a test administered and scored in a consistent manner.
14  A device consisting of a dial and an arrow that is spun to indicate the next move in some board games.
15  In geology and earth science, a plateau is an area of highland, usually consisting of relatively flat terrain.