SELDOM in a Sentence

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237 example sentences for SELDOM, such as:
1. Two of a trade seldom agree.
2. Great men's sons seldom do well.
3. Things are seldom what they seem.
4. An evil chance seldom comes alone.
5. He that is angry is seldom at ease.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of SELDOM
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  His mother had been a talker in her day, but after her "trouble" the sound of her voice was seldom heard, though she had not lost the power of speech.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
2  Eady and his assistant were both "down street," and young Denis, who seldom deigned to take their place, was lounging by the stove with a knot of the golden youth of Starkfield.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VI
3  She seldom abbreviated the girl's name, and when she did so it was always a sign of affability.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
4  Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
5  They carried on their farm operations with mules and they had no surplus of these, seldom more than four.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
6  And he was seldom tactful in doing it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
7  Gerald's voice was strangely quiet and he spoke slowly as if drawing his words from a store of thought seldom used.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
8  But, somehow, the cotton always failed, and the garden, due to Mrs. Slattery's constant childbearing, seldom furnished enough to feed her flock.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
9  She liked this position, for she seldom failed to go to sleep during prayers and, in this postures it escaped her mother's notice.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
10  Just the same, all the ladies felt pleasantly excited, for it was so seldom that they actually saw a scene or a quarrel.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
11  However, ladies have seldom held any charms for me.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
12  When a Southerner took the trouble to pack a trunk and travel twenty miles for a visit, the visit was seldom of shorter duration than a month, usually much longer.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
13  After tilts with him from which she seldom emerged the victor she vowed he was impossible, ill-bred and no gentleman and she would have nothing more to do with him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
14  She was seldom seen on Peachtree Street or in any nice neighborhood, but when she did appear respectable women made haste to cross the street to remove themselves from her vicinity.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
15  Now that she had Will and Ashley to attend to whatever business she might have in Jonesboro and Fayetteville, she seldom left the plantation.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
Example Sentence: (27 in 2 pages)
1  I seldom go home after five o'clook in the afternoon.
2  Two dogs over one bone seldom agree.
3  Two of a trade seldom agree.
4  An evil chance seldom comes alone.
5  Who undertakes many things at once, seldom does anything well.
6  He that is angry is seldom at ease.
7  True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
8  Men too seldom see their own faults.
9  A hasty man is seldom out of trouble.
10  Men of courage, men of sense, and menof letters are frequent: but a true gentleman is what one seldom seen.
11  It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest , but there is seldom any money in them.
12  An enemy's mouth seldom speaks well.
13  Great men's sons seldom do well.
14  Things are seldom what they seem.
15  He who despises small things seldom grows rich.