ESTATE in a Sentence

Learn ESTATE 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.
219 example sentences for ESTATE, such as:
1. He is a real estate agent.
2. Frugality is an estate alone.
3. Remember, the estate agent is working for the vendor.
4. The estate agent described the flat as a bijou residence.
5. We went straight to the estate agent and wrote out a cheque.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of ESTATE
estate
 n.  everything you own; all of your assets (whether real property or personal property) and liabilities
 n.  a major social class or order of persons regarded collectively as part of the body politic of the country (especially in the United Kingdom) and formerly possessing distinct political rights
Classic Sentence: (178 in 12 pages)
1  But, unfortunately, neither money nor real estate, whether improved or non-improved, can purchase such a stomach.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV
2  I myself managed to sell everything from my estate at a good price.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV
3  Sobakevitch's country house and estate were of very fair size, and on each side of the mansion were expanses of birch and pine forest in two shades of green.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V
4  Among commissions entrusted to him was that of placing in the hands of the Public Trustee several hundred peasants who belonged to a ruined estate.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER XI
5  That is to say, I am the owner of three hundred peasant souls, a badly administered estate, and a fool of a bailiff.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I
6  And for long afterwards he would feel as though his man's intellect and estate were a burden.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I
7  There is nothing for me to do at home, since the management of the estate is in my brother's hands, and my going would cause him no inconvenience.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
8  Again, everything on his estate is made to perform at least three or four different functions.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
9  I cannot let you go, for, in addition to my honour having become involved, it behoves me to show my people how the regular, the organised, administration of an estate may be conducted.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
10  Yes, no sooner does a man get a little education into his head than he becomes a Don Quixote, and establishes schools on his estate such as even a madman would never have dreamed of.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
11  He is a man who, were he not the director of an estate, might well be a director of the Empire.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
12  All, that is to say, except Chichikov, whose thoughts remained wakeful, and who kept wondering and wondering how best he could become the owner, not of a fictitious, but of a real, estate.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
13  And another project which was occupying Chichikov's mind was the project of purchasing the estate of a certain landowner named Khlobuev.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
14  Next day, with Platon and Constantine, Chichikov set forth to interview Khlobuev, the owner whose estate Constantine had consented to help Chichikov to purchase with a non-interest-bearing, uncovenanted loan of ten thousand roubles.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
15  Also, the village in Khlobuev's estate had about it a deserted air, and as for the proprietor himself, he was discovered in a state of drowsy dishevelment, having not long left his bed.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
Example Sentence: (41 in 3 pages)
1  Patriotism is a arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
2  Their brief is to undertake outreach work aimed at young African Caribbeans on the estate.
3  He is a real estate agent.
4  The estate agent had pictures of the house from the outside but none of its interior.
5  An estate agent is a person who buys and sells buildings and land for others.
6  My father commissioned a real estate agent to sell our house.
7  The estate agent described the flat as a bijou residence.
8  Remember, the estate agent is working for the vendor.
9  Transactions in land are frequently handled by an estate agent.
10  We went straight to the estate agent and wrote out a cheque.
11  Frugality is an estate alone.
12  The Advertising Standards Authority accused estate agents of using blatant untruths.
13  The young prince is the heir to a vast estate in the west of the country.
14  She receives rent from all the people whose cottages are on estate land.
15  The young heir's contingent of the estate was smaller than he had hoped for.