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79 example sentences for TEXT, such as:
1. I am not addicted to text.
2. Such was Feuilly's habitual text.
3. The details about the data suffix the text.
4. But when Leviathan is the text, the case is altered.
5. It was a text for business men and professional men.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of TEXT
text
 n.  the main body of a written work (as distinct from illustrations or footnotes etc.)
 n.  a book prepared for use in schools or colleges
Classic Sentence: (27 in 2 pages)
1  He seemed to like to give to his thoughts for text these funereal psalmodies filled with the vision of the other world.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE
2  We think that we have here reproduced the thing in strict accordance with the text.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—FORMS ASSUMED BY SUFFERING DURING SLEEP
3  Such was Feuilly's habitual text.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
4  God delivers over to men his visible will in events, an obscure text written in a mysterious tongue.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION
5  The most sagacious, the calmest, the most profound, decipher slowly, and when they arrive with their text, the task has long been completed; there are already twenty translations on the public place.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION
6  From each remaining springs a party, and from each misinterpretation a faction; and each party thinks that it alone has the true text, and each faction thinks that it possesses the light.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION
7  He knew enough Greek to enjoy the peculiarities of the text which he owned.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER III—M. MABEUF
8  It was a negro church; and the preacher's text was about the blackness of darkness, and the weeping and wailing and teeth-gnashing there.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2. The Carpet-Bag.
9  There's another rendering now; but still one text.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 99. The Doubloon.
10  But when Leviathan is the text, the case is altered.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 104. The Fossil Whale.
11  "Wal, it seems quite as plain a text, stranger," said John the drover, "to poor fellows like us, now;" and John smoked on like a volcano.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
12  Father Purdon developed the text with resonant assurance.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In GRACE
13  It was a text which might seem to the casual observer at variance with the lofty morality elsewhere preached by Jesus Christ.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In GRACE
14  It was a text for business men and professional men.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In GRACE
15  Such a book being there was wonderful enough; but still more astounding were the notes penciled in the margin, and plainly referring to the text.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In II
Example Sentence: (52 in 4 pages)
1  The text had already been marked up with corrections.
2  I am not addicted to text.
3  The author appends a short footnote to the text explaining the point.
4  I understand the text but the diagrams are confusing me.
5  The definitive version of the text is ready to be published.
6  The original version of the text has been pruned quite a bit.
7  The teacher asked the students to read the text aloud after class.
8  The details about the data suffix the text.
9  Instead, the Cut / Copy Rectangle command used the exact position of the cursor to define the vertical section of text.
10  We examine the wording in detail before deciding on the final text.
11  He collaborated with his son Michael on the English translation of a text on food production.
12  I skimmed through it to get a general impression of the text.
13  A text is often changed here and there when it is copied.
14  A text for students devoted seven pages to the use of a capital letter to indicate a proper noun.
15  Individual pieces of text can be cut and pasted to their correct position.