DISCOVERY in a Sentence
Learn DISCOVERY 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.
204 example sentences for DISCOVERY, such as:
1. There was no peril of discovery.
2. This new discovery challenges traditional beliefs.
3. By degrees I made a discovery of still greater moment.
4. No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
5. The discovery of Columbus was quite an event in the world.
2. This new discovery challenges traditional beliefs.
3. By degrees I made a discovery of still greater moment.
4. No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
5. The discovery of Columbus was quite an event in the world.
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Meanings and Examples of DISCOVERY
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discovery
n. a productive insight
n. something that is discovered
Classic Sentence: (159 in 11 pages)
1 You may remember that a history of all the voyages made for purposes of discovery composed the whole of our good Uncle Thomas' library.
2 I replied, however, that we were on a voyage of discovery towards the northern pole.
3 Overjoyed at this discovery, he hastened to the house, which was situated in a mean street near the Reuss.
4 A new light seemed to dawn upon my mind, and bounding with joy, I communicated my discovery to my father.
5 In other studies you go as far as others have gone before you, and there is nothing more to know; but in a scientific pursuit there is continual food for discovery and wonder.
6 Some miracle might have produced it, yet the stages of the discovery were distinct and probable.
7 The astonishment which I had at first experienced on this discovery soon gave place to delight and rapture.
8 But this discovery was so great and overwhelming that all the steps by which I had been progressively led to it were obliterated, and I beheld only the result.
9 I do not know what you mean," replied my brother, in accents of wonder, "but to us the discovery we have made completes our misery.
10 By degrees I made a discovery of still greater moment.
11 I heard of the discovery of the American hemisphere and wept with Safie over the hapless fate of its original inhabitants.
12 When night came I quitted my retreat and wandered in the wood; and now, no longer restrained by the fear of discovery, I gave vent to my anguish in fearful howlings.
13 Our little voyages of discovery were often prolonged by the successive objects that presented themselves.
14 There was no peril of discovery.
15 But though confidence between them was, by this public discovery, restored to its proper state, it was not a subject on which either of them were fond of dwelling when alone.
Example Sentence: (45 in 4 pages)
1 To him I owe the discovery that even very short periods of time add up to all useful hours I need, if I plunge in without delay.
2 The story tells of a man's journey of personal discovery up an African river.
3 This new discovery challenges traditional beliefs.
4 This discovery may shake traditional theories on how mountains are formed.
5 To tour Sri Lanka is to take a voyage of discovery through a land of endless variety.
6 Various ecological issues have come to the fore since the discovery of the hole in the Earth's ozone layer.
7 This discovery marks a quantum leap forward in the fight against cancer.
8 Gibbons failed to see the commercial value of his discovery.
9 My films try to describe a journey of discovery, both for myself and the watcher.
10 Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
11 The discovery of Columbus was quite an event in the world.
12 A wrongdoer is constantly haunted by the fear of discovery.
13 The discovery of America is generally referred to Columbus.
14 No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
15 Caltech in the fifties was becoming an international centre of cosmological discovery.