GROOVE in a Sentence
Learn GROOVE 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.
23 example sentences for GROOVE, such as:
1. They had slid down into grooves.
2. Wheels leave grooves in a dirt road.
3. The bolt slid easily into the groove.
4. A furrow or groove is formed by running water.
5. The groove ceased to avail me, and I mistrusted myself.
2. Wheels leave grooves in a dirt road.
3. The bolt slid easily into the groove.
4. A furrow or groove is formed by running water.
5. The groove ceased to avail me, and I mistrusted myself.
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Meanings and Examples of GROOVE
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groove
n. (anatomy) any furrow or channel on a bodily structure or part
v. hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove
Classic Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1 As day after day passed by, and he got no better, her mind ran more and more in this mournful groove, and she would go away from him into the garden and weep despairing tears.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: 2 He Is Set upon by Adversities but He Sings a Song
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: 2 He Is Set upon by Adversities but He Sings a Song
2 Venn retreated before him down the hill to a place where the path was merely a deep groove between the heather; here he mysteriously bent over the ground for a few minutes, and retired.
3 In vain I endeavoured to interest him in Afghanistan, in India, in social questions, in anything which might take his mind out of the groove.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty
Context Highlight In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty
4 I found a groove ripped in it, about midway between the pedestal of the sphinx and the marks of my feet where, on arrival, I had struggled with the overturned machine.
5 Not knowing what to trust, I did not know what to do; and so had only to keep on working in what had hitherto been the groove of my life.
6 The groove ceased to avail me, and I mistrusted myself.
7 THE cars came scudding in towards Dublin, running evenly like pellets in the groove of the Naas Road.
8 His glossy black hair was parted in the middle and brushed in a long curve behind his ears where it curled slightly beneath the groove left by his hat.
9 First he set the axes in a row, in a long groove which he had dug for them, and had made straight by line.
10 In the middle of the concave side, there is a groove twelve inches deep, in which the extremities of the axle are lodged, and turned round as there is occasion.
11 He returned to Russia, and tried to live his former life again; but he could not get back into the old groove.
12 He has to keep greasing the groove of events every moment.
13 They had slid down into grooves.
14 This was perfectly fresh, the grooves in the ancient black mortar were white, a tuft of nettles at the foot of the wall was powdered with the fine, fresh plaster.
15 There is green mould in the grooves of the letters and yellow streaks on the marble, which come from more years than men could count.
Example Sentence:
1 A furrow or groove is formed by running water.
2 If a groove is chipped across one of the concrete columns or through one of the bond beams within the walls, it will weaken the structure.
3 The bolt slid easily into the groove.
4 Wheels leave grooves in a dirt road.
5 The sink shelf is grooved so that the water will run off.