DEMAND in a Sentence

Learn DEMAND 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.
351 example sentences for DEMAND, such as:
1. This check is payable on demand.
2. Cold drinks are in demand in the summer.
3. Video games demand great manual dexterity.
4. Firms have to be responsive to consumer demand.
5. You should not demand such an excessive charge.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of DEMAND
demand
 v.  lay legal claim to
 v.  summon to court
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  He therefore made his demand with the awkwardness of a proud man who will not admit to himself that he is stooping; and he was not much surprised at Hale's refusal.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
2  He had foreseen an immediate demand for money, but not a permanent drain on his scant resources.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
3  After all, the Governor had defied Jeff Davis' demand for them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
4  The demand for building materials was far greater than could be supplied.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
5  But she could not accuse him now, could not rage at him, demand fidelity or try to shame him, any more than she could bring herself to apologize for accusing him of Bonnie's death.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LX
6  The idea of bargaining for the letters was intolerable to her, but she knew that, if she appeared to weaken, Mrs. Haffen would at once increase her original demand.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
7  She conceded Mrs. Mott's demand so violently that for two days she dropped her own campaign.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
8  Indians were everywhere; they camped in dooryards, stalked into kitchens to demand doughnuts, came with rifles across their backs into schoolhouses and begged to see the pictures in the geographies.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
9  Only the Henty books and the Elsie books and the latest optimisms by moral female novelists and virile clergymen were in general demand, and the board themselves were interested only in old, stilted volumes.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
10  You didn't demand that each baby be a philosopher and artist before you weighed him, as you do with the rest of us.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
11  She felt the demand for standardized behavior coming in waves from all the citizens who sat in their sitting-rooms watching her with respectable eyes, waiting, demanding, unyielding.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
12  I now demand of you to speak out and tell me who and what this harpooneer is, and whether I shall be in all respects safe to spend the night with him.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
13  In fact, I was so afraid of him that I was not game enough just then to address him, and demand a satisfactory answer concerning what seemed inexplicable in him.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
14  Emboldened by this, the Captain reiterated his demand to the rest, but Steelkilt shouted up to him a terrific hint to stop his babbling and betake himself where he belonged.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
15  But in this particular, the demand has long been on the decline.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 75. The Right Whale's Head—Contrasted View.
Example Sentence: (141 in 10 pages)
1  It's safe to assume there will always be a demand for new software.
2  Cheap goods are available, but not in sufficient quantities to satisfy demand.
3  The old type of family party is played out, young people demand something more exciting nowadays.
4  Originally paper money could, upon demand, as of right be changed into gold.
5  Video games demand great manual dexterity.
6  We demand an immediate restoration of our right to vote.
7  You should not demand such an excessive charge.
8  This check is payable on demand.
9  Cold drinks are in demand in the summer.
10  The right to demand payment from the endorser of a commercial paper when the first party liable fails to pay.
11  The boom was fuelled by accelerated demand for consumer products.
12  Firms have to be responsive to consumer demand.
13  The factories are staying open all weekend to try to meet the consumer demand for this product.
14  The reduced consumer demand is also affecting company profits.
15  Supply normally exceeds demand for the bulk of consumer goods.