LIBRARY in a Sentence

Learn LIBRARY 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.
200 example sentences for LIBRARY, such as:
1. The library has many art treasures.
2. My library books are a week overdue.
3. I prize my library above my kingdom.
4. The library looked as she had pictured it.
5. The city is planning to build a municipal library.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of LIBRARY
library
 n.  a depository built to contain books and other materials for reading and study
 n.  a collection of literary documents or records kept for reference or borrowing
Classic Sentence: (140 in 10 pages)
1  Across the wide hall was the open door of the library and she sped into it noiselessly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  The library was in semidarkness, for the blinds had been drawn against the sun.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  The mortification and hurt pride that she had suffered in the library with Ashley and with Rhett Butler were pin pricks to this.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
4  Even Aunt Pitty, downstairs in the library, was not rocking her creaking chair in deference to Scarlett's sorrow.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
5  He stood aside to let her pass before him into the library.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
6  Once in Scarlett's front hall, she bowed briefly to the gathering in the library, to the frightened Miss Pittypat, the stately old Mrs. Butler, Will and Suellen.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIX
7  She saw at a glance that Rhett was not in the parlor or the library and her heart sank.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXIII
8  The library at Bellomont was in fact never used for reading, though it had a certain popularity as a smoking-room or a quiet retreat for flirtation.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
9  The library looked as she had pictured it.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 12
10  Judge Milford's pedagogical scheme was to let the children read whatever they pleased, and in his brown library Carol absorbed Balzac and Rabelais and Thoreau and Max Muller.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
11  She almost gave up library work to become one of the young women who dance in cheese-cloth in the moonlight.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
12  She decided that she would give up library work and, by a miracle whose nature was not very clearly revealed to her, turn a prairie town into Georgian houses and Japanese bungalows.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
13  Marbury tells me you're a high mogul in the public library.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
14  I spoke to the library about it, and they took it off the shelves.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
15  But in her work in the library, children had become individuals to her, citizens of the State with their own rights and their own senses of humor.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
Example Sentence: (60 in 5 pages)
1  I prize my library above my kingdom.
2  The books in the library are classified by/according to subject.
3  The books in the library are classified according to subject.
4  The library has many art treasures.
5  The teacher divided the class and took one section to the library and left the other to write an article.
6  Author and subject indexes are available on a library database.
7  All new students are given lessons in / on how to use the library.
8  My library books are a week overdue.
9  Building of the new library should begin in the latter part of next year.
10  The city is planning to build a municipal library.
11  The community will get a boost from a new library and recreation center.
12  He dignified a small collection of books by calling it a library.
13  I chanced on a copy of the collection of Shakespeare's poems in the library.
14  The new computer looked incongruous in the dark book-filled library.
15  The library was modelled after the library of Congress of Washington.