DEVELOPMENT in a Sentence

Learn DEVELOPMENT 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.
377 example sentences for DEVELOPMENT, such as:
1. The town has been designated a development area.
2. You will let me know any fresh development, Miss Smith.
3. Cell divisions during development occur in a fixed sequence.
4. Money will also go into local development projects in Vietnam.
5. Government tax policy has tilted toward industrial development.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of DEVELOPMENT
development
 n.  a state in which things are improving; the result of developing (as in the early part of a game of chess)
 n.  a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation
Classic Sentence: (167 in 12 pages)
1  This fresh development has shown me that I was completely mistaken.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
2  The same great manufacturer, always with an immense variety of work on hand, in every stage of development, passed Sissy onward in his mill, and worked her up into a very pretty article indeed.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIV
3  I can only suppose that the circumstances of your early life were too unfavourable to the development of your reasoning powers, and that we began too late.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIV
4  It's what endures through one's life that matters; my own life matters to me, in its long continuance and development.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
5  Her power was limited, and the consciousness of this limitation had biassed her development.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 7 Queen of Night
6  He already showed that thought is a disease of flesh, and indirectly bore evidence that ideal physical beauty is incompatible with emotional development and a full recognition of the coil of things.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 6 The Two Stand Face to Face
7  Much of this development he may have owed to his studious life in Paris, where he had become acquainted with ethical systems popular at the time.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 2 The New Course Causes Disappointment
8  I had hardly expected so dolichocephalic a skull or such well-marked supra-orbital development.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1. Mr. Sherlock Holmes
9  At the same time I recognise that the evidence is purely circumstantial, and that some new development may upset it.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In I. The Adventure of Silver Blaze
10  Matters were in this state, when a new development quite drew our attention away from the original mystery.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. The Adventure of The Musgrave Ritual
11  Phelps and I talked it over on our journey, but neither of us could devise a satisfactory reason for this new development.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty
12  You will let me know any fresh development, Miss Smith.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST
13  The case certainly presents more features of interest and more possibility of development than I had originally thought.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST
14  Sherlock Holmes's face showed that he was thoroughly taken aback by this new development.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. THE ADVENTURE OF BLACK PETER
15  The development for which my friend had asked came in a quicker and an infinitely more tragic form than he could have imagined.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Money will also go into local development projects in Vietnam.
2  The basin favours the development of farming and animal husbandry.
3  The town has been designated a development area.
4  Road development in the area has been severely affected by the conservation programmes of the council.
5  Government tax policy has tilted toward industrial development.
6  As parents we recognize the value of you in our child's development.
7  A more powerful version of this electric bus is currently in development.
8  From an economic point of view , the new development will benefit the town greatly.
9  Let black and white as brothers, South Africa to the prosperity and development.
10  Between the eighth week of development and birth a human embryo is called a foetus.
11  They spend a fair slice of the budget on research and development.
12  The protests were part of their campaign against the proposed building development in the area.
13  Cell divisions during development occur in a fixed sequence.
14  The company has struck gold with its new holiday development, Center Parcs.
15  Materials in the center are organized into three distinct categories: reference, child-use, and staff development.