DEPORTMENT in a Sentence
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24 example sentences for DEPORTMENT, such as:
1. Young ladies used to have lessons in deportment.
2. The federal authorities deported him for illegal entry.
3. People with invalid papers are deported to another country.
4. One peculiarity of the child's deportment remains yet to be told.
5. The Home Secretary has recommended the two drug dealers for deportation.
2. The federal authorities deported him for illegal entry.
3. People with invalid papers are deported to another country.
4. One peculiarity of the child's deportment remains yet to be told.
5. The Home Secretary has recommended the two drug dealers for deportation.
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Meanings and Examples of DEPORTMENT
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deportment
n. (behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people
Classic Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1 She got through her lessons as well as she could, and managed to escape reprimands by being a model of deportment.
2 Now, Jo dear, the Chesters consider themselves very elegant people, so I want you to put on your best deportment.
3 His deportment had now for some weeks been more uniform towards me than at the first.
4 He maintained a hard, careless deportment, indicative of neither joy nor sorrow: if anything, it expressed a flinty gratification at a piece of difficult work successfully executed.
5 His features are strong and masculine, with an Austrian lip and arched nose, his complexion olive, his countenance erect, his body and limbs well proportioned, all his motions graceful, and his deportment majestic.
6 With almost a serene deportment, therefore, Hester Prynne passed through this portion of her ordeal, and came to a sort of scaffold, at the western extremity of the market-place.
7 One peculiarity of the child's deportment remains yet to be told.
8 Ah," replied Roger Chillingworth, with that quietness, which, whether imposed or natural, marked all his deportment, "it is thus that a young clergyman is apt to speak.
9 Interpreting Hester Prynne's deportment as an appeal of this nature, society was inclined to show its former victim a more benign countenance than she cared to be favoured with, or, perchance, than she deserved.
10 His deportment would have been fierce in a butcher or a brandy-merchant.
11 Seated, with her needlework or netting apparatus, at the window, she had a self-laudatory sense of correcting, by her ladylike deportment, the rude business aspect of the place.
12 "I shall not fly the trial," said the yeoman, with the composure which marked his whole deportment.
13 And so saying he imitated the solemn and stately deportment of a friar, and departed to execute his mission.
14 The serious people who took him seriously never felt quite sure of his deportment; they were somehow aware that trusting their reputations for judgment with him was like furnishing a nursery with egg-shell china.
15 She was more like her father than her younger sisters, for Carreen, who had been born Caroline Irene, was delicate and dreamy, and Suellen, christened Susan Elinor, prided herself on her elegance and ladylike deportment.
Example Sentence:
1 Young ladies used to have lessons in deportment.
2 People with invalid papers are deported to another country.
3 All the men were being deported even though the real culprits in the fight have not been identified.
4 The federal authorities deported him for illegal entry.
5 A Marine veteran was slated for deportation until the immigration agency realized he was a US citizen.
6 The Home Secretary has recommended the two drug dealers for deportation.