EQUALITY in a Sentence

Learn EQUALITY 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.
317 example sentences for EQUALITY, such as:
1. It is not by equality of merit that you can be won.
2. All people have the right to equality of opportunity.
3. She was herself a vehement protagonist of sexual equality.
4. Beware of making any distinctions which may infringe equality.
5. They have long been involved in a crusade for racial equality.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of EQUALITY
equality
 n.  the quality of being the same in quantity or measure or value or status
 n.  a state of being essentially equal or equivalent; equally balanced
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Liberty and equality," said the vicomte contemptuously, as if at last deciding seriously to prove to this youth how foolish his words were, "high-sounding words which have long been discredited.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V
2  "I imagine that Freemasonry is the fraternity and equality of men who have virtuous aims," said Pierre, feeling ashamed of the inadequacy of his words for the solemnity of the moment, as he spoke.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III
3  Beware of making any distinctions which may infringe equality.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV
4  He said that Freemasonry is the teaching of Christianity freed from the bonds of State and Church, a teaching of equality, brotherhood, and love.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XII
5  The most usual generalizations adopted by almost all the historians are: freedom, equality, enlightenment, progress, civilization, and culture.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER IV
6  And corresponding to the event its justification appears in people's belief that this was necessary for the welfare of France, for liberty, and for equality.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER VII
7  A too rigid equality in rations, Squealer explained, would have been contrary to the principles of Animalism.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IX
8  This was a necessary precaution, in order to secure equality betwixt the two bodies who should be opposed to each other.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
9  His companion, who attended on this great personage, had nearly the same dress in all respects, but his extreme deference towards his Superior showed that no other equality subsisted between them.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
10  It is not by equality of merit that you can be won.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
11  Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect equality, as they were frequently together.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
12  Let a commonwealth, then, be constituted in the country where a great equality is found or has been made; and, conversely, let a princedom be constituted where great inequality prevails.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER LV.
13  These Etruscans, therefore, living with one another on a footing of complete equality, when they sought to extend their power, followed that first method of which I have just now spoken.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV.
14  Children, I confess, are not born in this full state of equality, though they are born to it.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
15  The South interpreted it in different ways: the radicals received it as a complete surrender of the demand for civil and political equality; the conservatives, as a generously conceived working basis for mutual understanding.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In III
Example Sentence: (107 in 8 pages)
1  Martin Luther King, Jr., they believe he could champion the oppressed in their struggle for equality.
2  You can see equality of mass and net electric charge of reacting species on each side of an equation.
3  In sense capacity, in perceptive and discriminative ability, there is likewise a practical equality.
4  The equality between her and me was real; not the mere result of condescension on her par.
5  In pondering the great mystery, I thought of Helen Burns, recalled her dying words -- her faith -- her doctrine of the equality of disembodied souls.
6  Feminists should be delighted by their enlightened commitment to sexual equality, their assumption that what's sauce for the gander is sauce for the goose, too.
7  She understands that the fight for marriage equality is not just about marriage, but economic security.
8  New reforms are largely uncontroversial, such as gender equality measures and improved rights of privacy.
9  Women have yet to achieve full equality with men in the workplace.
10  Civil rights include freedom, equality in law and in employment, and the right to vote.
11  They have long been involved in a crusade for racial equality.
12  All people have the right to equality of opportunity.
13  In this country women are clamoring for improvements in the sexual equality laws.
14  She was herself a vehement protagonist of sexual equality.
15  I'm all for sexual equality, but I don't want my wife earning more than I do.