MASS in a Sentence

Learn MASS 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.
292 example sentences for MASS, such as:
1. The mass rally was a total fiasco.
2. There is a mass of sand in the yard.
3. There was a mass of children in the yard.
4. For months no male emerged from the mass.
5. The hill appeared as a black mass in the distance.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of MASS
mass
 n.  the property of something that is great in magnitude
 n.  a body of matter without definite shape
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The sled swerved in response, but he righted it again, kept it straight, and drove down on the black projecting mass.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
2  The thought of the animal's suffering was intolerable to him and he struggled to raise himself, and could not because a rock, or some huge mass, seemed to be lying on him.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
3  "That," answered Scarlett, pointing at the fluffy mass of green flowered muslin.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
4  Frail, fine-boned, so white of skin that her flaming hair seemed to have drawn all the color from her face into its vital burnished mass, she was nevertheless possessed of exuberant health and untiring energy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
5  Turning she saw a tall handsome woman with a bold face and a mass of red hair, too red to be true.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
6  A shadow disengaged itself from the mass and came to the gate.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
7  His hip bones stood out like an old cow's, his ribs showed like a washboard and his back was a mass of sores.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
8  Then they topped the rise and before them lay the oaks of Tara, a towering dark mass against the darkening sky.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
9  Jumbled together was a mass of bills, United States greenbacks mingling with Confederate money and, glinting from between them, were one ten-dollar gold piece and two five-dollar gold pieces.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
10  The uprights which held the thick vines were rotten and that night Scarlett hacked at them with the kitchen knife until they fell and the tangled mass ran wild over the grave.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
11  Of all the heterogeneous mass of people who had poured into Atlanta, the army people alone she refused to receive or tolerate.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
12  Lily had never conceived of these victims of fate otherwise than in the mass.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
13  With the slow unalterable persistency which she had always felt in him, he was making his way through the dense mass of social antagonisms.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 5
14  For months no male emerged from the mass.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
15  UNDER the rolling clouds of the prairie a moving mass of steel.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
Example Sentence: (82 in 6 pages)
1  They now have access to the mass markets of Japan and the UK.
2  The government is fighting a rearguard action against the mass of public opinion.
3  The mass movement for technical innovation is vigorously forging ahead in the factory.
4  The energy an animal uses is in direct relation to speed and body mass.
5  From this you can calculate the total mass in the Galaxy.
6  The mass rally was a total fiasco.
7  There was a mass of children in the yard.
8  There is a mass of sand in the yard.
9  The hill appeared as a black mass in the distance.
10  Pope John Paul celebrated mass today in a city in central Poland.
11  The explosion reduced the church to a mass of rubble.
12  Any attempts to bring under the mass movement for civil rights are doomed to failure.
13  The group is calling for a mass consumer boycott of these products.
14  Only in this way can the critical mass of participation be reached.
15  The report was marred by a mass of superfluous detail.