SOCIETY in a Sentence

Learn SOCIETY 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.
396 example sentences for SOCIETY, such as:
1. The basic unit of society is the family.
2. He wished me to seek amusement in society.
3. She opened a savings account at the building society.
4. The family is the basic social unit of modern society.
5. And yet you are still unhappy and still avoid our society.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of SOCIETY
society
 n.  the fashionable elite
 n.  the state of being with someone
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  While I listened to the instructions which Felix bestowed upon the Arabian, the strange system of human society was explained to me.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
2  The prospect of marrying a Christian and remaining in a country where women were allowed to take a rank in society was enchanting to her.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
3  His blind and aged father and his gentle sister lay in a noisome dungeon while he enjoyed the free air and the society of her whom he loved.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
4  And yet you are still unhappy and still avoid our society.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
5  Clerval eagerly desired to accept this invitation, and I, although I abhorred society, wished to view again mountains and streams and all the wondrous works with which Nature adorns her chosen dwelling-places.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
6  He wished me to seek amusement in society.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
7  My father yielded at length to my desire to avoid society and strove by various arguments to banish my despair.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
8  My rage is unspeakable when I reflect that the murderer, whom I have turned loose upon society, still exists.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23
9  The exception indicated the ever relentless vigour with which society frowned upon her sin.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In V. HESTER AT HER NEEDLE
10  In all her intercourse with society, however, there was nothing that made her feel as if she belonged to it.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In V. HESTER AT HER NEEDLE
11  In all seasons of calamity, indeed, whether general or of individuals, the outcast of society at once found her place.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER
12  Interpreting Hester Prynne's deportment as an appeal of this nature, society was inclined to show its former victim a more benign countenance than she cared to be favoured with, or, perchance, than she deserved.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER
13  It is remarkable that persons who speculate the most boldly often conform with the most perfect quietude to the external regulations of society.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER
14  As a first step, the whole system of society is to be torn down and built up anew.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER
15  In the society of his nephew and niece, and their children, the old Gentleman's days were comfortably spent.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1
Example Sentence: (186 in 13 pages)
1  One of the pillars of a civilized society must be that everyone has equal access to the legal system.
2  One of the pillars of society must be that everyone has access to the legal system.
3  She opened a savings account at the building society.
4  It is an act of moral cowardice for a society to neglect its poor.
5  The future of society is in the hands of mothers; if the world was lost through woman she alone can save it.
6  These changes strike at the heart of British/American/modern society.
7  His hard-nosed business approach is combined with a very real concern for the less fortunate in society.
8  Some environmentalists argue for a return to a pre-industrial society.
9  The authors' argument is not with the free market per se but with the western society in which it works.
10  The author uses disease as a metaphor for the corruption in society.
11  Your building society or bank will help arrange a mortgage.
12  The basic unit of society is the family.
13  The family is the basic social unit of modern society.
14  The local historical society put up a plaque at the site of the battle.
15  When society requires to be rebuilt, there is no use attempting to rebuild it on the old plan.