STRESS in a Sentence

Learn STRESS 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.
83 example sentences for STRESS, such as:
1. We all have to learn to handle stress.
2. Some tribes lay great stress on the honor of.
3. Separation is a time of high emotional stress.
4. Lightness of stress or behaviour was far from her.
5. Techniques of deep meditation help people under stress.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of STRESS
stress
 v.  to stress, single out as important
 n.  special emphasis attached to something
Classic Sentence: (38 in 3 pages)
1  These women, so swift to kindness, so tender to the sorrowing, so untiring in times of stress, could be as implacable as furies to any renegade who broke one small law of their unwritten code.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
2  They had always been a clannish tribe, presenting an unbroken phalanx of overlapping shields to the world in time of stress, no matter what their private opinions of the conduct of individual kinsmen might be.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LV
3  She sat quiet, her lips parted by the stress of the ascent, her eyes wandering peacefully over the broken ranges of the landscape.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
4  Mrs. Trenor's unconsciousness of the real stress of the situation had the effect of making it more galling to Lily.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
5  Gradually, to be sure, the stress of the old thoughts would return; but at least they did not importune her waking hour.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
6  He smiled at Kennicott, to imply that whatever he might say in the stress of being witty was not to count against him in the commercio-medical warfare.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
7  Carol worried about their struggle, but she forgot it in the stress of sickness and fear.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
8  Lightness of stress or behaviour was far from her.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: III
9  And the speaker's voice broke suddenly, with the stress of his feelings; he stood with his arms stretched out above him, and the power of his vision seemed to lift him from the floor.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 28
10  And Jurgis was with them, he was shouting to tear his throat; shouting because he could not help it, because the stress of his feeling was more than he could bear.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 28
11  Some tribes lay great stress on the honor of.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3
12  His face was drawn hard and tight with the stress of his endeavor.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
13  In the barroom he found assembled quite a miscellaneous company, whom stress of weather had driven to harbor, and the place presented the usual scenery of such reunions.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
14  Which facts being made known to Hanno the Carthaginian, he, as I have already related, warned the Carthaginian senate not to lay too much stress upon their victory.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXXI.
15  Stern financial and social stress after the war cooled much of the previous humanitarian ardor.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In III
Example Sentence: (45 in 4 pages)
1  Family problems in childhood can set the stage for stress in adult life.
2  Howe was turning into an alcoholic because of the stress of his job.
3  Doctors stress that this kind of treatment is still experimental.
4  Techniques of deep meditation help people under stress.
5  This relaxation technique can serve as an effective weapon against stress.
6  A careless word may kindle strife; a cruel word may wreck a life, a timely word may level stress, a loving word may heal and bless.
7  Things can easily go wrong when people are under stress.
8  She is at pains to stress the cultural differences between the two countries.
9  Financial stress is well established as a chief reason for divorce.
10  It is generally assumed that stress is caused by too much work.
11  Separation is a time of high emotional stress.
12  It is important to disentangle all the factors that may be causing your stress.
13  The trend is suggested by biologists to indicate water stress due to the low humidity of the room.
14  We all have to learn to handle stress.
15  The norms of citizen behavior found in these texts stress the participant aspects of political culture.