GRANT in a Sentence

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206 example sentences for GRANT, such as:
1. God grant you health and long life.
2. May God grant that you get a generalship.
3. She won a grant to develop her own business.
4. They had a great porpoise grant from the crown.
5. We supplicate Your Majesty to grant him amnesty.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of GRANT
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 n.  18th President of the United States; commander of the Union armies in the American Civil War (1822-1885)
Classic Sentence: (152 in 11 pages)
1  Scarlett O'Hara, with the County at her feet, a hundred slaves to do her bidding, the wealth of Tara like a wall behind her and doting parents anxious to grant any desire of her heart.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
2  Let's grant that he does the best he can but I don't imagine he's much help.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
3  They had a great porpoise grant from the crown.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 65. The Whale as a Dish.
4  At any rate, if we yield to it, we must grant a far greater age to the Right Whale than at first glance will seem reasonable.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 75. The Right Whale's Head—Contrasted View.
5  Look ye, pudding-heads should never grant premises.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 108. Ahab and the Carpenter.
6  "I will grant you Jesus," interrupted the other.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 31
7  "In some respects, some of them are well off, I grant," said the lady to whose remark she had answered.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
8  "So, good-by, Eliza; good-by, George; the Lord grant thee a safe journey;" and, with a few tripping steps, Ruth was out of the apartment.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
9  Ah, well, in New England, and in the free States, you have the better of us, I grant.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
10  I grant that this Liberia may have subserved all sorts of purposes, by being played off, in the hands of our oppressors, against us.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
11  Should you grant that request, all will be forgotten and blotted out and pardoned, for I myself will intercede with the Throne on your behalf.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
12  I even prayed as I approached him that God would grant me determination.
Notes from the Underground By Fyodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: I
13  God grant you health and long life.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT III
14  May God grant that you get a generalship.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
15  Well, well, God grant it, he added, not noticing his visitor's sarcastic smile.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII
Example Sentence: (54 in 4 pages)
1  Anyone wishing to apply for a grant should write to the Treasurer.
2  The grant helped defray the expenses of the trip.
3  The board has decided to withhold part of their grant money from certain students.
4  The school has received a large capital grant to improve its buildings.
5  She won a grant to develop her own business.
6  They'd got a special grant to encourage research.
7  The grant was a real godsend, especially considering the theatre was due to close next month.
8  He requested that the Premier grant him an interview.
9  The government put the skids under the plan by stopping their research grant.
10  An additional grant has enabled the team to push forward with research plans.
11  I grant the genius of your plan, but you still will not find backers.
12  I should be certain that whatever charter you might grant under coercion, your first act, when released, would be to violate its conditions.
13  We supplicate Your Majesty to grant him amnesty.
14  He became more vituperative as he realized that we were not going to grant him his wish.
15  The number and variety of handicraft courses which grant an appreciation for the skill, time and money needed to produce high quality craftwork.