CONTRACT in a Sentence

Learn CONTRACT 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.
182 example sentences for CONTRACT, such as:
1. He crumpled the contract into a ball.
2. We should add this clause to the contract.
3. Your action has rendered our contract invalid.
4. Muscles contract and relax during physical activity.
5. She is under contract to a major American computer firm.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of CONTRACT
contract
 v.  compress or concentrate
 n.  (contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make
Classic Sentence: (93 in 7 pages)
1  His hands contract convulsively; they close, and grasp nothingness.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII—BILLOWS AND SHADOWS
2  Whoever buries himself in the opposite of day feels his heart contract.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE
3  Any man who has been a prisoner understands how to contract himself to fit the diameter of the escape.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—IN WHICH JEAN VALJEAN HAS QUITE THE AIR OF HAV...
4  All those words: rights of the people, rights of man, the social contract, the French Revolution, the Republic, democracy, humanity, civilization, religion, progress, came very near to signifying nothing whatever to Grantaire.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
5  He had endured everything in the way of destitution; he had done everything except contract debts.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MARIUS POOR
6  Never have the fingers of night which contract beneath this stifling ceiling, turned the leaves of a book nor unfolded a newspaper.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE LOWEST DEPTHS
7  Some say social contract; which is the same thing, the word contract being etymologically formed with the idea of a bond.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT O...
8  My friends, in bygone days, in those amiable days of yore, people married wisely; they had a good contract, and then they had a good carouse.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER ...
9  Napoleon had accepted, through Whymper, a contract for four hundred eggs a week.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
10  A spasm made the ribs contract; blood oozed.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 7
11  Dresses were made, jewellery was made, cakes and gloves were made, settlements were made, and an extensive assortment of Facts did appropriate honour to the contract.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI
12  In other respects, his profession and situation had taught him a ready command over his countenance, which he could contract at pleasure into solemnity, although its natural expression was that of good-humoured social indulgence.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
13  Matters being thus amicably and satisfactorily arranged, the contract was solemnly ratified in another teacupful of the peppermint mixture; which was rendered the more necessary, by the flutter and agitation of the lady's spirits.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
14  Before his removal, he had managed to contract a strong friendship for Mr. Grimwig, which that eccentric gentleman cordially reciprocated.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
15  The contract completed, she raised between them a barrier impenetrable as a wall.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 4 Eustacia Is Led on to an Adventure
Example Sentence: (89 in 6 pages)
1  Your action has rendered our contract invalid.
2  They could take legal action against you if you break the contract.
3  Muscles contract and relax during physical activity.
4  We should add this clause to the contract.
5  The contract will affect our national prestige in the world.
6  You cannot legally take possession of the property until three weeks after the contract is signed.
7  The advertising agency secured the contract on the back of their previous successful campaigns.
8  I wish I were a free agent, but my contract binds me for three more years.
9  She is under contract to a major American computer firm.
10  After all the argument, the writer finished up with a contract.
11  He crumpled the contract into a ball.
12  Companies are increasingly keen to contract out peripheral activities like training.
13  Under the terms of the contract the job should have been finished yesterday.
14  He will remain manager of the club until the end of his contract.
15  It is provided in the contract that the work should be accomplished within a year.