PRIDE in a Sentence
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242 example sentences for PRIDE, such as:
1. I'm glad there's pride in you, Puss.
2. Humility often gains more than pride.
3. This fine stamp is the pride of my collection.
4. Anger and hurt pride drove out some of the pain.
5. The predominant feature of his character was pride.
2. Humility often gains more than pride.
3. This fine stamp is the pride of my collection.
4. Anger and hurt pride drove out some of the pain.
5. The predominant feature of his character was pride.
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Meanings and Examples of PRIDE
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pride
n. satisfaction with your (or another's) achievements
n. a feeling of self-respect and personal worth
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 Ethan felt that if he had pleaded an urgent need Hale might have made shift to pay him; but pride, and an instinctive prudence, kept him from resorting to this argument.
2 "Not a bit," Ethan's pride retorted before his reason had time to intervene.
3 Completely reassured, she shone on him through tear-hung lashes, and his soul swelled with pride as he saw how his tone subdued her.
4 Mammy was black, but her code of conduct and her sense of pride were as high as or higher than those of her owners.
5 And, as her love for Scarlett and her pride in her were enormous, the chastening process was practically continuous.
6 Filled with her own anxieties, she nevertheless watched him with affectionate pride, for Gerald was an excellent horseman.
7 "There's none in the County can touch you, nor in the state," he informed his mount, with pride, the brogue of County Meath still heavy on his tongue in spite of thirty-nine years in America.
8 Anger and hurt pride drove out some of the pain.
9 I'm glad there's pride in you, Puss.
10 And I want to see pride in you tomorrow at the barbecue.
11 But only from life could Ellen's face have acquired its look of pride that had no haughtiness, its graciousness, its melancholy and its utter lack of humor.
12 If Ellen had ever regretted her sudden decision to marry him, no one ever knew it, certainly not Gerald, who almost burst with pride whenever he looked at her.
13 Then the trembling fell away from her, as happiness and pride surged through her.
14 He had never once crossed the borders of friendliness with her and, when she thought of this fresh anger rose, the anger of hurt pride and feminine vanity.
15 The mortification and hurt pride that she had suffered in the library with Ashley and with Rhett Butler were pin pricks to this.
Example Sentence: (32 in 3 pages)
1 She felt a great sense of pride as she watched him accept the award.
2 It is not a sign of humility to declaim against pride.
3 Where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.
4 By ignorance is pride increased; those most assume who know the least.
5 The spectacle of Xerxes's defeat tremendously reinforced the traditional conviction that pride goes before a fall.
6 Here comes today with special pride in all the achievements you have made.
7 This fine stamp is the pride of my collection.
8 I consider it important to instil a pride in the players.
9 I consider it important to instill a pride in the players.
10 His pride lies in the fact that he is the gold medal winner.
11 The predominant feature of his character was pride.
12 I just look at you now smiling silent pride lost so I follow you follow you happy and sad but I always stand now but you never stay in the past.
13 He felt a glow of pride as people stopped to admire his garden.
14 One should give up anger; one should abandon pride; one should overcome all fetters.
15 Humility often gains more than pride.