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Example sentences for "attendance"

Lexicographically close words:
attempte; attempted; attempting; attempts; attend; attendances; attendant; attendants; attendaunce; attende
  1. Some peccadillo about his clothes, his diet, his lodging, or attendance quite disorders him: but especially if he fancies any want of the state and respect he looks for.

  2. In the beginning the school had about sixty young students, and had a very good daily attendance for a number of years.

  3. The struggle was continued for about fifteen years with an attendance of from forty to sixty pupils.

  4. He had a fair attendance of bright children, who "by the facility with which they took in instruction were silently but certainly undermining the prejudice"[4] against their education.

  5. The timorous element threatened the teachers with the terrors of the law, induced the benevolent slaveholders to prohibit the attendance of their Negroes, and had the school closed.

  6. The administrative part of the work almost ceased, the schools lost in efficiency, and the former attendance of 1400 startlingly dropped.

  7. Travelers in Canada found the colored mission schools with a larger attendance and doing better work than those maintained at public expense.

  8. The attendance soon necessitated increased accommodations for which Joseph Dawson and other Quakers liberally provided in later years.

  9. He began his advanced work near the Treasury building, having an attendance of probably one hundred and fifty pupils, generally paying tuition.

  10. They were thrown back just as before among their old associates, subjected to corrupting influences, allowed to forego attendance at public worship on Sundays, and rarely encouraged to attend family prayers.

  11. For it has been found that, everywhere in the country, there is a larger and better attendance of pupils in the consolidated school, that more pupils go to school, that they attend more regularly, and that the school terms are longer.

  12. There are many grown-up pupils in the district who would not go to the small schools, but who will go to a larger school where they find their equals; and so the school attendance is greatly increased.

  13. Béla was obviously sitting in the tap-room of the inn, flirting with the Jewess, when he should have been in attendance on his bride.

  14. Béla did not care to encounter the young Count's sneering remarks just now--and these would of a certainty have been levelled against the bridegroom who was sitting in a tap-room when he should have been in attendance on his bride.

  15. The public was admitted to view the scene, the consuls of foreign powers were in attendance as specially invited guests, and a fine military band discoursed patriotic and classical music.

  16. Nor shall they begin to do business without two-thirds of the total number of their members being present, or continue their sessions without the attendance of an absolute majority.

  17. Habitual attendance upon such scenes as you refer to is very apt, I think, to vitiate the healthful tone of one's thoughts and feelings, but an occasional visit would probably injure none but very weak minds.

  18. Hear this sentence, good people, from his note: 'Only indisposition prevented my attendance at the theatre last night to witness the brilliant triumph of my countrywomen.

  19. Did he command your attendance at this 'Cantata'?

  20. Being forbidden attendance at practice or games did not, however, prevent him from witnessing the game with New Falmouth High School on Saturday.

  21. Perhaps he thought that every practice witnessed a similar loyal attendance and that the applause that fell to him was no more than was generally accorded.

  22. Mariamne was a sovereign, who, choose as she might her prime minister, would not suffer her royal attendance to be diminished by the loss of a single slave.

  23. Now, attendance at a lodging-house has been defined to be, the privilege of ringing your bell as often as you please, provided you do not expect any one to answer it.

  24. As a rule I finished my work in the forenoon, and had the rest of the day more or less to myself, except when it was my turn to attend at the main hospital, where once a week I had to be in attendance all night on emergency duty.

  25. Bettesworth was choosing Tuesday, because on Tuesday mornings the relieving officer is in attendance in the parish, and the order could therefore be got without a five-mile walk for it.

  26. Henceforth, for a payment of threepence a month, he was to have medical attendance free, and on his death the club would pay for his funeral.

  27. I suppose Bettesworth consulted me on the step he was contemplating, of going to the relieving officer to-morrow to get an order for medical attendance for old Lucy.

  28. To Theodora her attendance was a new and exquisite repose.

  29. She will keep him in attendance all the evening, so I may as well see what books she has got.

  30. She enjoyed only the prospect of the comfort her society would afford her brother, depressed by attendance on a nervous wife, in an unsatisfactory home.

  31. The thorough self-sacrificing attendance on her aunt had been the sole means left her of maintaining the sense of fulfilling a duty.

  32. I am not going to dance attendance on any one.

  33. Also I knew what everybody would begin to say of me; but the landlord, foreseeing a large attendance after the Coroner's inquest, would not for a moment hear of any breach of my fiddle pledge.

  34. Though neither so much beloved nor esteemed as the king, he was more dreaded; and thence an attendance more exact, as well as a submission more obsequious, was paid to him.

  35. On such occasions when Ormond, from decency, paid his attendance at court, the king, equally ashamed to show him civility and to neglect him, was abashed and confounded.

  36. The success of the Nibelungen Ring had been called in question, but that of "Parsifal" is beyond doubt, as sufficiently demonstrated by the attendance of cultured people from everywhere for so many weeks!

  37. With the final slaying of the dragon, there fell also into the hero's hand the treasure, inasmuch as the large attendance left a surplus of many thousand marks, thus assuring the continuation of the festival-plays.

  38. This last had come over with his sons, Caracalla and Geta, and a large army, and the attendance of his whole court.

  39. It was a criminal and civil court with its grand jury, and enforced the attendance of persons from each manor within the hundred.

  40. The compulsory morning attendance of students, on most days during term-time, to prayers in chapel, is again a survival of the matutinal devotions of the monks.

  41. He danced attendance upon me long before he knew Nanteuil.

  42. Trublet, who was in attendance at the Odéon once a month only, was given to looking in as a friend almost every evening.

  43. Any regular and compulsory attendance at Westminster, he said, would be highly objectionable to his friends.

  44. I have learned for the first time the extraordinary comfort of the aid which the attendance of a nurse can give.

  45. I am unable to continue attendance at the daily morning service, not on account of the eyesight but because I may not rise before ten at the earliest.

  46. The Princess of Guemene, between whom and Montmorency there were very strong ties, went to see the cardinal, who was in attendance on the king.

  47. The cardinal's family surrounded his bed; and the attendance was numerous.

  48. This time the cardinal reconciled the king and the favorite, whom he had himself placed near him, but whose constant attendance upon the king his master he was beginning to find sometimes very troublesome.

  49. The men complained, saying, "Sir, the sum we ought to have for our attendance at the baptism of children of France has for a long while been fixed.

  50. You may command Bartow's attendance here whenever it suits you, and you have a faithful envoy in Frederick, who will go post with your commands as often as you wish.

  51. The attendance of the professors was expected to be regular.

  52. You must pay off Meance and Hewlet for their attendance on you and Natalie.

  53. I fear it will be throughout the winter, for my time is consumed in the dull uniformity of study and attendance in Senate; but every hour of your day is interesting to me.

  54. He consented on the instant, therefore; and turning our horses into a by-road, we sauntered down it with no greater attendance than a couple of pages.

  55. Concini, the Italian; who advancing to meet me before my foot was out of the stirrup, announced that he came from the King, who desired my instant attendance in the queen's closet.

  56. I heard that she was indisposed yesterday, and kept the King in attendance all day.

  57. She counted on his attendance at both ceremonies, but with particular reasons for wishing to see him in the morning.

  58. That question danced attendance on the liberal intercourse of these young people and fortunately as yet did little to embitter Sherringham's share of it.

  59. The publisher obeys, the printers furnish proofs, and the author has submitted; his proceedings and attendance in the bureaux are at end.

  60. Instead of dancing attendance so long on the threshold of a career, they were inducted into it very early in life and at once began the race.

  61. It is worthy of being remarked, also, that the attendance of members of the Senate was remarkably full, particularly toward the end of the session.

  62. If at any time there was not a quorum of members present, the attendance of a quorum, we are to presume, might have been commanded, as there was undoubtedly a great majority of members still in the city.

  63. In 1766 he removed his residence to Boston, still continuing his attendance on the neighboring circuits, and not unfrequently called to remote parts of the Province.


  64. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "attendance" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    attendance; attendant; cohort; company; cortege; court; draw; employ; employment; entourage; follower; following; gate; ministration; ministry; parasite; peonage; presence; retinue; rout; satellite; serfdom; service; servitude; slavery; suite; train; turnout