PUNCTUALITY in a Sentence

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57 example sentences for PUNCTUALITY, such as:
1. He's always very punctual.
2. He arrived punctually at four o'clock.
3. I am not myself a particularly punctual person.
4. My cat makes a punctual appearance at mealtimes.
5. Please make every endeavour to arrive punctually.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of PUNCTUALITY
punctuality
 n.  the quality or habit of adhering to an appointed time
Classic Sentence: (51 in 4 pages)
1  Morrel, and I shall say that he is a man honorable to the last degree, and who has up to this time fulfilled every engagement with scrupulous punctuality.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 28. The Prison Register.
2  The bills signed by Morrel were presented at his office with scrupulous exactitude, and, thanks to the delay granted by the Englishman, were paid by Cocles with equal punctuality.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 30. The Fifth of September.
3  Great, therefore, was the astonishment when at the end of the month, he cancelled all his obligations with his usual punctuality.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 30. The Fifth of September.
4  Good-morning, Lucien, good-morning," said Albert; "your punctuality really alarms me.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 39. The Guests.
5  The following morning, with the banker's usual punctuality, the eighty thousand francs were placed in the young man's hands as he was on the point of starting, after having left two hundred francs for Caderousse.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 81. The Room of the Retired Baker.
6  Bessie would rather have stayed, but she was obliged to go, because punctuality at meals was rigidly enforced at Gateshead Hall.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
7  On Tuesday there was a large party assembled at Longbourn; and the two who were most anxiously expected, to the credit of their punctuality as sportsmen, were in very good time.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 54
8  This convinced us that something great was to happen, and threw me into an unusual flutter when I repaired to my guardian's office, a model of punctuality.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXVI
9  And to make time to get through all that lay before him every day, he adhered to the strictest punctuality.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 33
10  I am not punctual myself, I know, but I do like punctuality in others, and waiting, even to be married, is quite out of the question.
The Importance of Being Earnest By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In THIRD ACT
11  He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4
12  D'Artagnan, although he was not a Musketeer, performed the duty of one with remarkable punctuality.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 7 THE INTERIOR* OF THE MUSKETEERS
13  The clerks, who, as it appeared, had smelled unusual perfumes in the house, were of military punctuality, and held their stools in hand quite ready to sit down.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 32 A PROCURATOR'S DINNER
14  In punctuality, she was as inevitable as a clock, and as inexorable as a railroad engine; and she held in most decided contempt and abomination anything of a contrary character.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
15  Everything went on in pretty good order, strict cleanliness, and strict punctuality; even pretty strict honesty.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
Example Sentence:
1  Please make every endeavour to arrive punctually.
2  He arrived punctually at four o'clock.
3  I am not myself a particularly punctual person.
4  He's always very punctual.
5  She is always punctual, but her friend is always late.
6  My cat makes a punctual appearance at mealtimes.