DECADENT in a Sentence
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142 example sentences for DECADENT, such as:
1. There have been quotas on textile trade for decades.
2. At USA the network of railroads hasn't increased in past decades.
3. Before me stretched the portentous menacing road of a new decade.
4. I remain haunted by a book called the Gammage Cup which I read decades ago.
5. It took Libyan authorities almost three decades to mend relations with the west.
2. At USA the network of railroads hasn't increased in past decades.
3. Before me stretched the portentous menacing road of a new decade.
4. I remain haunted by a book called the Gammage Cup which I read decades ago.
5. It took Libyan authorities almost three decades to mend relations with the west.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of DECADENT
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decadent
a. marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay
n. a person who has fallen into a decadent state (morally or artistically)
Classic Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1 I must confess that my satisfaction with my first theories of an automatic civilization and a decadent humanity did not long endure.
2 At last I saw again the dim shadows of houses, the evidences of decadent humanity.
3 In the unholy crimson glow that bathed them, his dark profile stood out as clearly as the head on an ancient coin, beautiful, cruel and decadent.
4 As she finished her prayers and Suellen, then Carreen, began their decades, her mind was still speeding onward with her entrancing new thought.
5 Three decades ago, Dr. Westlake, Julius Flickerbaugh the lawyer, Merriman Peedy the Congregational pastor and himself had been the arbiters.
6 In rough approximation we may point out four varying decades of work in Southern education since the Civil War.
7 First, it became almost entirely Baptist and Methodist in faith; secondly, as a social institution it antedated by many decades the monogamic Negro home.
8 But the bird, like many other philosophers, seemed as he looked at the reddleman to think that a present moment of comfortable reality was worth a decade of memories.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: 10 A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: 10 A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion
9 It would be a poor expert who could not give the date of a document within a decade or so.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In Chapter 2. The Curse of the Baskervilles
Context Highlight In Chapter 2. The Curse of the Baskervilles
10 In normal cases one can place a man in his true decade with tolerable confidence.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In VII. The Adventure of The Reigate Squires
Context Highlight In VII. The Adventure of The Reigate Squires
11 Before me stretched the portentous menacing road of a new decade.
12 Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.
13 Ellen finished and Gerald, who could never find his beads at prayer time, began furtively counting his decade on his fingers.
14 Hastily she began her decade, telling off the beads automatically but with a depth of emotion in her voice that caused Mammy to open her eyes and shoot a searching glance at her.
15 In a single decade the cotton output increased four-fold and the value of lands was tripled.
Example Sentence: (126 in 9 pages)
1 I'm not getting any younger, and seriously, I feel the excesses of my decadent life slowly catching up with me.
2 At USA the network of railroads hasn't increased in past decades.
3 Supplying daycare services for the elderly is a business that is certain to continue to grow in the coming decades.
4 This was a harsh blow for the families of missing people who'd waited for decades for news of them.
5 In the three decades after 1945, Britain shed virtually all of the colonies that had taken centuries to acquire.
6 There have been quotas on textile trade for decades.
7 He made this factory tick two decades with strong knowledge of the economics and technology.
8 A literature professor by training and a self-taught art connoisseur, Charles Ryskamp served three decades as director first of the Pierpont Morgan Library.
9 American foreign policy has for decades been trapped in infantile behavior that mature men are supposed to outgrow once they get past adolescence.
10 The Museum of Graphic Arts is holding a retrospective showing of the paintings of Michael Whelan over the past two decades.
11 This collection of stereotypes reads like it fell through a time warp from a couple of decades ago.
12 I remain haunted by a book called the Gammage Cup which I read decades ago.
13 It took Libyan authorities almost three decades to mend relations with the west.
14 The only thing we need to subsidize is a massive Manhattan style project to come up with better ways that won't take decades to implement.
15 For decades, successive French governments have sought solutions to the Corsica problem; none has yet worked.