HAMLET in a Sentence

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22 example sentences for HAMLET, such as:
1. This hamlet is distant from the town.
2. I felt it would be degrading to faint with hunger on the causeway of a hamlet.
3. Donnithorpe is a little hamlet just to the north of Langmere, in the country of the Broads.
4. With new courage, therefore, I pressed on, and in two days arrived at a wretched hamlet on the seashore.
5. But at last, on the slope of some rising ground, appeared the small hamlet where Bazarov's parents lived.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of HAMLET
hamlet
 n.  a settlement smaller than a town
 n.  the hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who hoped to avenge the murder of his father
Classic Sentence: (21 in 2 pages)
1  Then Eve lets down her sombre tresses brown and spreads her lucent veil o'er hamlet, spire, and mead, etc.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 9
2  As they thus conversed, the heavy bell of the church of Saint Michael of Templestowe, a venerable building, situated in a hamlet at some distance from the Preceptory, broke short their argument.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
3  About half a mile below Clym's secluded dwelling lay a hamlet where lived one of the two constables who preserved the peace in the parish of Alderworth, and Wildeve went straight to the constable's cottage.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 4 Rough Coercion Is Employed
4  This small clump of buildings here is the hamlet of Grimpen, where our friend Dr. Mortimer has his headquarters.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3. The Problem
5  Donnithorpe is a little hamlet just to the north of Langmere, in the country of the Broads.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. The Adventure of The "Gloria Scott"
6  Whitcross is no town, nor even a hamlet; it is but a stone pillar set up where four roads meet: whitewashed, I suppose, to be more obvious at a distance and in darkness.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
7  I turned in the direction of the sound, and there, amongst the romantic hills, whose changes and aspect I had ceased to note an hour ago, I saw a hamlet and a spire.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
8  I felt it would be degrading to faint with hunger on the causeway of a hamlet.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
9  I rambled round the hamlet, going sometimes to a little distance and returning again, for an hour or more.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
10  She was staring out at Schoenstrom, a hamlet of perhaps a hundred and fifty inhabitants, at which the train was stopping.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
11  more than a scattered hamlet; but the name is in general.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 5
12  With new courage, therefore, I pressed on, and in two days arrived at a wretched hamlet on the seashore.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
13  But at last, on the slope of some rising ground, appeared the small hamlet where Bazarov's parents lived.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
14  He dwelt at a distance of three-quarters of an hour from the city, far from any hamlet, far from any road, in some hidden turn of a very wild valley, no one knew exactly where.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
15  The dwellings were scattered rather aimlessly, but they centred about the twin temples of the hamlet, the Methodist, and the Hard-Shell Baptist churches.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In IV
Example Sentence:
1  This hamlet is distant from the town.