FACILE in a Sentence

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72 example sentences for FACILE, such as:
1. Carol had forgotten her facile hopes.
2. The hotel offers a wide range of facilities and services.
3. The bank plans various extensions to its credit facilities.
4. She's always lamenting the lack of sports facilities in town.
5. The money will enable us to upgrade the town's leisure facilities.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of FACILE
facile
 a.  arrived at without due care or effort; lacking depth
 a.  performing adroitly and without effort
Classic Sentence: (27 in 2 pages)
1  She longed to be able to throw into her voice the facile passion of a light woman.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
2  Carol had forgotten her facile hopes.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
3  In a thousand ways he smoothed for me the path of knowledge and made the most abstruse inquiries clear and facile to my apprehension.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
4  He invented a facile excuse, and having taken the vacant seat next to her, looked round to see who was there.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3
5  And there can be no more effectual means for checking calumny than by affording ample facilities for impeachment, which is as useful in a commonwealth as the other is pernicious.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII.
6  In this way the council was deprived of its facilities for stopping public business to the danger of the State.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER L.
7  But whatever he did was done with the aid of one of the counsellors of the tyrants, a certain Charon, through whom he had all facilities for executing his design.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI.
8  The facilities which nature had there offered to the march of the combatants were too obvious to be neglected.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1
9  Forts were erected at the different points that commanded the facilities of the route, and were taken and retaken, razed and rebuilt, as victory alighted on the hostile banners.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1
10  The prince had traveled a great deal, and considered one of the chief advantages of modern facilities of communication was the accessibility of the pleasures of all nations.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 1
11  His own, at the moment, lent it a festive readiness of welcome that might well, in a disenchanted eye, have turned to paint and facility.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
12  He gave most of the morning lectures, droning with equal unhappy facility about poetry, the Holy Land, and the injustice to employers in any system of profit-sharing.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
13  Thereby, the whale commanders are enabled to recognise each other upon the ocean, even at considerable distances and with no small facility.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 71. The Jeroboam's Story.
14  And he could string oaths with the facility of a maiden who strings beads.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
15  Certainly they will, in their gentleness, their lowly docility of heart, their aptitude to repose on a superior mind and rest on a higher power, their childlike simplicity of affection, and facility of forgiveness.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
Example Sentence: (45 in 4 pages)
1  Words came easily to Jonathan: he was a facile speaker and prided himself on being ready to make a speech at a moment's notice.
2  Disabled visitors are welcome; there is good wheelchair access to most facilities.
3  The facilities have been adapted to give access to wheelchair users.
4  Grill your travel agent about the facilities for families with children.
5  She's always lamenting the lack of sports facilities in town.
6  I can dive under the water without any facilities but I can't stop down there too much time.
7  The money will enable us to upgrade the town's leisure facilities.
8  The bank plans various extensions to its credit facilities.
9  The hotel offers a wide range of facilities and services.
10  Improved child-care facilities would benefit both sexes, not just women.
11  It is not helps, but obstaceles, not facilities but difficulties, that make men.
12  We want to preserve the character of the town while improving the facilities.
13  Childcare facilities in Britain compare unfavourably with other European countries.
14  At this stage they are encouraged to compare and contrast the facilities and user interfaces provided.
15  Three thousand factories and defense facilities are contaminated by radiation.