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50 example sentences for PRUDENCE, such as:
1. He exhibited ambiguous prudence and awkward daring.
2. I have the prudence of Amphiaraus and the baldness of Caesar.
3. De Winter has changed his usual stupidity into a strange prudence.
4. His natural prudence, however, never forsook him for a single instant.
5. The army, always a sad thing in civil wars, opposed prudence to audacity.
2. I have the prudence of Amphiaraus and the baldness of Caesar.
3. De Winter has changed his usual stupidity into a strange prudence.
4. His natural prudence, however, never forsook him for a single instant.
5. The army, always a sad thing in civil wars, opposed prudence to audacity.
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Meanings and Examples of PRUDENCE
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prudence
n. knowing how to avoid embarrassment or distress
n. discretion in practical affairs
Classic Sentence: (49 in 4 pages)
1 I have the prudence of Amphiaraus and the baldness of Caesar.
2 When those we love are in question, our prudence invents every sort of madness.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII—THE ENIGMA BECOMES DOUBLY MYSTERIOUS
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII—THE ENIGMA BECOMES DOUBLY MYSTERIOUS
3 Still, he did not pass in front of it any more, in obedience to the instinct of timidity and to the instinct of prudence common to lovers.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VII—ADVENTURES OF THE LETTER U DELIVERED OVER TO ...
Context Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VII—ADVENTURES OF THE LETTER U DELIVERED OVER TO ...
4 He exhibited ambiguous prudence and awkward daring.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—TO ONE SADNESS OPPOSE A SADNESS AND A HALF
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—TO ONE SADNESS OPPOSE A SADNESS AND A HALF
5 The army, always a sad thing in civil wars, opposed prudence to audacity.
6 The child was dressed as a National Guardsman, owing to the insurrection, and the father had remained clad as a bourgeois out of prudence.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER
7 In spite of his prudence, d'Artagnan restrained himself with great difficulty from taking a part in the scene that was going on below.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context Highlight In 10 A MOUSETRAP IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
Context Highlight In 10 A MOUSETRAP IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
8 His natural prudence, however, never forsook him for a single instant.
9 Porthos, abated, no doubt, of his too-great confidence by his adventure of Chantilly, played with skill and prudence.
10 Athos listened to his projects, then shook his head, and recommended prudence to him with a shade of bitterness.
11 De Winter has changed his usual stupidity into a strange prudence.
12 The bed, which she had kept from prudence and that they might believe her seriously wounded, burned her like a bed of fire.
13 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.
14 There were a thousand chances to one against her meeting anybody, but one could never tell, and she always paid for her rare indiscretions by a violent reaction of prudence.
15 He had the kind of character in which prudence is a vice, and good advice the most dangerous nourishment.
Example Sentence:
1 It's because we have to preserve a country that we built to be great and prudence is the only way to do it.