DATED in a Sentence

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221 example sentences for DATED, such as:
1. These ideas seem a bit dated now.
2. Write today's date at the top of the page.
3. They haven't set a date for the wedding yet.
4. It was dated an hour and a half before dinner.
5. We haven't decided on a date for the wedding yet.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of DATED
dated
 a.  marked by features of the immediate and usually discounted past
Classic Sentence: (94 in 7 pages)
1  The weather was fine; it was about the middle of the month of August, nearly two months after the death of Justine, that miserable epoch from which I dated all my woe.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
2  If the minister's voice had not kept her there, there would, nevertheless, have been an inevitable magnetism in that spot, whence she dated the first hour of her life of ignominy.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XXII. THE PROCESSION
3  Young as I was, I believe that I dated a new admiration of Joe from that night.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
4  It was dated an hour and a half before dinner.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 28. Mr. MICAWBER'S GAUNTLET
5  He caught up the next paper; it was a brief note in the doctor's hand and dated at the top.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THE LAST NIGHT
6  The boards round and the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building of the house.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND
7  Well, of course it can be explained; your father may have forgotten to date his signature, and someone else may have dated it haphazard before they knew of his death.
A Doll's House By Henrik Ibsen
Context  Highlight   In ACT I
8  On his desk the coroner found a letter, dated at five o'clock that afternoon.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: II
9  It is only a line dated from Castle Dracula, and says that he is just starting for home.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
10  To rebuild the windmill, with walls twice as thick as before, and to finish it by the appointed date, together with the regular work of the farm, was a tremendous labour.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
11  On the other hand there were new-comers, the Manresas, bringing the old houses up to date, adding bathrooms.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 5
12  There was no mirror, at that date, in my room; that which stands beside me as I write, was brought there later on and for the very purpose of these transformations.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
13  My provision of the salt, which had never been renewed since the date of the first experiment, began to run low.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
14  Yet, though quarter-staff play be out of date, what we can in prose we will do for these bold champions.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
15  I'm afraid I am a little out of date, and my collieries are like me.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
Example Sentence: (127 in 9 pages)
1  Not all old photographs are dated, but internal evidence may help to establish an approximate date.
2  Those TV comedies were OK in their day but seem incredibly dated now.
3  These ideas seem a bit dated now.
4  Although I acknowledge that the Beatles' tunes sound pretty dated today, I still prefer them to the songs my brothers play.
5  For an average insurance requirement and an average dated car the breakeven point declines to 15 000 km a year.
6  Please give your name, address and date of birth.
7  When archaeologists date objects that are thousands of years old, they allow a margin of error of several hundred years.
8  He hopes to be able to announce a date for inter-party talks.
9  At a future date, managers will be invited to apply for a management buy-out.
10  Write today's date at the top of the page.
11  This type of games console is starting to look well past its sell-by date.
12  I think we can date the decline of Western Civilization quite precisely.
13  Don't forgot to write/enter the date of the meeting in your diary.
14  We haven't decided on a date for the wedding yet.
15  They haven't set a date for the wedding yet.