DEPARTMENT in a Sentence
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326 example sentences for DEPARTMENT, such as:
1. Organizing a whole department is beyond his capability.
2. The department store carries a variety of leather shoes.
3. The department was badly organized until she took charge of it.
4. Discussions are held on an informal basis within the department.
5. The Tokyo police department is clamping down on organized crime.
2. The department store carries a variety of leather shoes.
3. The department was badly organized until she took charge of it.
4. Discussions are held on an informal basis within the department.
5. The Tokyo police department is clamping down on organized crime.
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Meanings and Examples of DEPARTMENT
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department
n. the territorial and administrative division of some countries (such as France)
n. a specialized division of a large organization
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 At Christmas time Frank Kennedy and a small troop from the commissary department jogged up to Tara on a futile hunt for grain and animals for the army.
2 "What with Yankees and our commissary department," they finished and she flushed.
3 Just as soon as the commissary department was safely on its way, she'd start Pork for Macon and take the chance of having the precious horse picked up by the army.
4 Everybody gave parties in celebration and the fire department was kept busy fighting the flames that spread from the bonfires of jubilant small boys.
5 She went to Minneapolis, to scamper through department stores and small Tenth Street shops devoted to ceramics and high thought.
6 Either I'm your partner, in charge of the household department of our business, with a regular budget for it, or else I'm nothing.
7 In those days, the captain's authority was restricted to the navigation and general management of the vessel; while over the whale-hunting department and all its concerns, the Specksnyder or Chief Harpooneer reigned supreme.
8 The Hindoo whale referred to, occurs in a separate department of the wall, depicting the incarnation of Vishnu in the form of leviathan, learnedly known as the Matse Avatar.
9 The packers used to leave the creek that way, till every now and then the surface would catch on fire and burn furiously, and the fire department would have to come and put it out.
10 It seemed as if every time you met a person from a new department, you heard of new swindles and new crimes.
11 For a long time Ona had seen that Miss Henderson, the forelady in her department, did not like her.
12 At the end of it the girl who had carried the red flag went downtown and got a position in a great department store, at a salary of two dollars and a half a week.
13 The men and women who worked in this department were precisely the color of the "fresh country sausage" they made.
14 It was only when the whole ham was spoiled that it came into the department of Elzbieta.
15 The wife of the prisoner had been employed in a department near him, and had been discharged for impudence to him.
Example Sentence: (116 in 8 pages)
1 If this project fails it will affect not only our department, but also the whole organization.
2 The art department and the main college are in two separate buildings.
3 The department has successfully integrated new ideas into the traditional course structure.
4 The unit has become part of a larger department and no longer exists as a separate entity.
5 The department store carries a variety of leather shoes.
6 The school has received various grants from the education department.
7 The accounts department is/are having a Christmas party this week.
8 Discussions are held on an informal basis within the department.
9 The company is cutting back its spending and I wonder what the implications will be for our department.
10 Organizing a whole department is beyond his capability.
11 The department made a nip here and a tuck there, but they were still way over budget.
12 The department has been shrinking year by year because of budget cuts.
13 The department was badly organized until she took charge of it.
14 The college biology department has diversified by adding new courses in biotechnology.
15 The Tokyo police department is clamping down on organized crime.