SEVERAL in a Sentence

Learn SEVERAL 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.
420 example sentences for SEVERAL, such as:
1. Allow me to pose several questions.
2. We bought our house several years ago.
3. Kenneth takes several phone calls from his agent.
4. He has made several withdrawals from his bank account.
5. The administration had several reasons for holding back.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of SEVERAL
several
 a.  considered individually
 a.  distinct and individual
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Zeena answered in her every-day tone and, warming to the theme, regaled them with several vivid descriptions of intestinal disturbances among her friends and relatives.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
2  He still took refuge there in summer, but when Mattie came to live at the farm he had to give her his stove, and consequently the room was uninhabitable for several months of the year.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
3  Cade Calvert was there and, after I settled about Dilcey, we all set on the gallery and had several toddies.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
4  Pork, the only trained house negro on the place, had general supervision over the other servants, but even he had grown slack and careless after several years of exposure to Gerald's happy-go-lucky mode of living.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
5  As he was several cuts above the Slatterys in education, it was only natural that he should not want to marry Emmie, no matter how often he might walk with her in the twilight.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
6  Opposite the winding stair stood a walnut sideboard, too large for use in the dining room, bearing on its wide top several lamps and a long row of candles in candlesticks.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
7  Palmetto fans were wagging more slowly, and several gentlemen were nodding from the heat and overloaded stomachs.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
8  Evidently, she was not the only one to whom this idea occurred, for several of the boys were beginning to stick out their chins.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
9  "Of course, it will mean fighting," said Charles, after several more embarrassed attempts.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
10  He stuttered several times, closed his mouth and opened it again, and again became geranium colored.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
11  Charles' aunt, Miss Pittypat Hamilton, had written her several times, urging her to permit Scarlett to come to Atlanta for a long visit, and now for the first time Ellen considered it seriously.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
12  Visitors presented no problem, for houses were large, servants numerous and the feeding of several extra mouths a minor matter in that land of plenty.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
13  He laughed too, and so loudly that several of the chaperons in the corner looked their way.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
14  Scrapes about women, several shootings, gun running to the revolutionists in Central America and, worst of all, professional gambling were included in his career, as Atlanta heard it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
15  Pittypat fluttered, too upset by the accusation to recall that Mrs. Merriwether had also been Rhett Butler's hostess on several occasions.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Her new book is several notches above anything else she has written.
2  He has made several withdrawals from his bank account.
3  The various building programmes add up to several thousand new homes.
4  The administration had several reasons for holding back.
5  The fragile economies of several southern African nations could be irreparably damaged.
6  We export tractors from the East Coast to several African countries.
7  After several attempts to untie the knot, I admitted defeat and cut through it with a knife.
8  The relief agency will distribute the food among several countries.
9  For several years she operated a dating agency from her basement flat.
10  Kenneth takes several phone calls from his agent.
11  We bought our house several years ago.
12  The negotiators were meeting in secret for several months before the peace agreement was made public.
13  When archaeologists date objects that are thousands of years old, they allow a margin of error of several hundred years.
14  Allow me to pose several questions.
15  There wasn't much vegetarian food as such, although there were several different types of cheese.