SUCCESS in a Sentence

Learn SUCCESS 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 SUCCESS, such as:
1. Work hard is absolutely basic to success.
2. Ability and hard work cinched his success.
3. Only those who struggle on can achieve success.
4. I think we should go and help to make it a success, all of us.
5. Unanalytical she was trying to analyze now and with no success.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of SUCCESS
success
 n.  a person with a record of successes
 n.  a state of prosperity or fame
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  If he could get Mrs. Hale's ear he felt certain of success, and with fifty dollars in his pocket nothing could keep him from Mattie.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
2  With her younger daughters, she had success, for Suellen was so anxious to be attractive she lent an attentive and obedient ear to her mother's teachings, and Carreen was shy and easily led.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
3  Ellen ignored all things contrary to her ideas of propriety and tried to teach Scarlett to do the same, but with poor success.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
4  I think we should go and help to make it a success, all of us.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
5  There were set rules to be followed, and if you followed them success crowned your efforts.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
6  She looked about the hall at the familiar faces, so assured of success, so brave, so devoted, and somehow a cold little chill set in at her heart.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
7  That in itself was enough to make the affair a success, for now a dollar in silver was worth sixty dollars in Confederate paper money.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
8  This was not the turn she had anticipated and she tried again without success to pull her hand free.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
9  Oh, you could be a success at anything you turned your hand to, Mr. Kennedy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
10  All you've done is to be different from other women and you've made a little success at it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
11  He was so smart and he had read so many books and there was no reason at all why he should not make a brilliant success and lots of money.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
12  The men whose lives Rhett had saved attempted, out of decency and a sense of gratitude, to keep their women silent but they had little success.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
13  As Bonnie grew older Scarlett tried to discipline her, tried to keep her from becoming too headstrong and spoiled, but with little success.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIX
14  Unanalytical she was trying to analyze now and with no success.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LX
15  The clothes are the background, the frame, if you like: they don't make success, but they are a part of it.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Sometimes you are not without effort, but chose the wrong direction; sometimes, success is not your ability, but by the power of others.
2  Ability and hard work cinched his success.
3  There is only one success --- to be able to spend your life in your own way.
4  Work hard is absolutely basic to success.
5  You taught me to aim for success and to accept failure with courage.
6  It is an unpalatable fact of life that the most deserving people do not often achieve the most success.
7  He has the ability to achieve success in whatever field of endeavour he should choose.
8  She was so hungry for success that she'd do anything to achieve it.
9  Her persistence and enthusiasm have helped the group to achieve its international success.
10  Only those who struggle on can achieve success.
11  Her testimony works against his chance of success as a politician.
12  Our success was the cue for other companies to press ahead with new investment.
13  I wouldn't care success oilure, for I will only struggle ahead as long as I have been destined to the distance.
14  I have long since abandoned the notion that higher education is essential to either success or happiness.
15  Success in making money is not always a good criterion of success in life.