FILE in a Sentence

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178 example sentences for FILE, such as:
1. Mendoza read over the file on the murders.
2. Start a new file and put this letter in it.
3. This card should be kept on file for reference.
4. The file on the murder was closed five years ago.
5. Select the landscape option when printing the file.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of FILE
file
 n.  a steel hand tool with small sharp teeth on some or all of its surfaces; used for smoothing wood or metal
 v.  record in a public office or in a court of law
Classic Sentence: (88 in 6 pages)
1  You bring me, to-morrow morning early, that file and them wittles.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I
2  I said that I would get him the file, and I would get him what broken bits of food I could, and I would come to him at the Battery, early in the morning.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I
3  There was a door in the kitchen, communicating with the forge; I unlocked and unbolted that door, and got a file from among Joe's tools.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II
4  The last I heard of him, I stopped in the mist to listen, and the file was still going.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III
5  I got a dreadful start, when I thought I heard the file still going; but it was only a sheep-bell.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V
6  And he stirred it and he tasted it; not with a spoon that was brought to him, but with a file.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X
7  He did this so that nobody but I saw the file; and when he had done it he wiped the file and put it in a breast-pocket.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X
8  I knew it to be Joe's file, and I knew that he knew my convict, the moment I saw the instrument.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X
9  A dread possessed me that when I least expected it, the file would reappear.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X
10  Either Orlick, or the strange man who had shown me the file.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XVI
11  It almost seemed to me as if he must stoop down presently, to file at his leg.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXIX
12  He'd no more heart than a iron file, he was as cold as death, and he had the head of the Devil afore mentioned.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XLII
13  Again, the dreaded Sunday comes round, and I file into the old pew first, like a guarded captive brought to a condemned service.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE
14  The door was then thrown open, and the general population began to come in, in a long file: several waiting outside, while one entered, affixed his signature, and went out.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11. I BEGIN LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT, AND DON'T LIK...
15  The rest, like the rank and file before an engagement, though they were getting ready for the fight, sought for other distractions in the interval.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 29
Example Sentence: (90 in 7 pages)
1  Search the index to find the address of the data file.
2  The file on the murder was closed five years ago.
3  A trumpet called behind, ordering another troop to file right into a field of growing wheat.
4  Make a file for these documents and write 'finance' on the tab.
5  The party's rank and file are beginning to question the prime minister's choice of advisers.
6  This card should be kept on file for reference.
7  The police file was reactivated because of new evidence.
8  You have to file away for hours to get this metal smooth.
9  I've been jumping about the file instead of working straight through it.
10  Start a new file and put this letter in it.
11  If one of the file servers goes down, you lose the whole network.
12  Select the landscape option when printing the file.
13  If the input data specified it, the file will close and the process terminates.
14  This opportunity to file or publish modified accounts does not limit the requirement to prepare full accounts for the shareholders.
15  Mendoza read over the file on the murders.