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Example sentences for "combination"

Lexicographically close words:
comber; combers; combersome; combes; combien; combinations; combine; combined; combines; combing
  1. I gave a laxative in combination with a diffusible stimulant, and ordered doses of aconite and potassium iodide; I also applied strong sinapisms to each side, immediately behind the shoulders.

  2. This gives us a combination of causes leading to pressure and bruises upon the sensitive structures at the seat of corn.

  3. The combination is jammed and the time-lock is all off.

  4. My findings were a combination of accidents almost outside the bounds of mathematical probability.

  5. This draft is a combination of parts of Lord John's, parts of Sir James Graham's, and parts of Viscount Palmerston's.

  6. Such a combination was, in fact, arranged at a meeting at Willis's Rooms organised by Lord Palmerston, Lord John Russell, Mr Bright and Mr Sidney Herbert.

  7. Happily, this suspense is over; and the real rescue effected by a glorious combination of skill and intrepidity on the part of Sir Colin Campbell and his troops must have been truly gratifying to your Majesty.

  8. He thought Lord Palmerston would have equal difficulty in forming an administration, but when that had failed some solid combination would become possible.

  9. Footnote 3: The probability of this combination was now being perpetually mooted, and, in fact, the two ex-Chancellors combined in attacking the Budget.

  10. Should we ever be threatened by a combination of Russia and France, the absence of a Government establishment in the north would be very serious.

  11. Berlin, on account of its general healthfulness and its combination of economical and other attractions, is esteemed by many experienced travellers as, on the whole, the continental city best adapted to an extended residence abroad.

  12. There is also one day in spring which is celebrated as a kind of combination of All Saints Day and Decoration Day, when every one visits the cemeteries, leaving flowers and wreaths in memory of the loved and lost.

  13. He was exercising a rare combination of the rigidly scientific spirit with the poetical imagination.

  14. Perhaps no man in any age has brought a better combination of observing and imaginative faculties to the aid of science.

  15. And that it contains in itself all the principles of life, which are all connected together, and by their union and combination form a harmonious whole, each of them developing itself at the appointed time.

  16. Where more than one combination of syllables is used the line takes its name from the foot predominating.

  17. A combination of these two styles is seen in some of the Tanagra statuettes, where the himation is put on over the head.

  18. This combination appears in the so-called Fates of the Parthenon pediment.

  19. On the other hand, when an Englishman has a vast fortune it is thought right to give him a title also, that the desirable combination may be created afresh.

  20. The combination of boy with boy was a curious one.

  21. In her, instead of expending itself in mental and physical energy as it did with most of them, it formed a most unhappy combination with those features inherited from her mother.

  22. The conception of a last and powerful combination arose in that inexhaustibly fertile mind.

  23. On our side Marshal Davout had just joined the great army; and the emperor took advantage of this combination of the greater part of our forces to inspect his troops.

  24. The Anabasis is an admirable work of art, unique in its combination of concise and rapid narrative with colour and picturesqueness.

  25. Yakub was defeated, however, not so much by Chinese superiority as by a combination of circumstances.

  26. This combination was a good substitute for the old Chinese theory that the emperor was the Son of Heaven; it increased the prestige and the splendour of the dynasty.

  27. This system in combination with the strong familism of the Chinese, gave a double security to the gentry families.

  28. This combination produces individuals in which there is a lack of balance or harmony.

  29. According to them, nature is neutral; but physical form originates with the combination of nature with Material Force (ch'i).

  30. We feel that with the passage of time the original combination has lost its early significance.

  31. The combination of a man's head, which was always that of a king, with a lion's body, must have been a result of the national love for symbolism.

  32. This combination is conspicuous in the plan found at Tell-el-Amarna, from which we have restored the larger of the two villas which we illustrate farther on.

  33. The scheme of decoration as a whole is a happy combination of æsthetic beauty with allusions to the power and success of the king.

  34. We must close our eyes for a moment and reconstruct this combination of architectural and sculpturesque lines.

  35. The combination of quadrangular with Osiride piers and of the latter with columns proper was also productive of great variety.

  36. They made them of Nile mud mixed with chopped straw, a combination which is mentioned in the Biblical account of the hardships inflicted upon the Israelites.

  37. The colours are often well preserved, at least in parts, and, as one combination is repeated several times, it is easy to restore the missing parts by reference to those which are intact.

  38. An arbitrary combination of a similar character is employed by the Egyptian artist when he wishes to show a number of persons behind one another on a horizontal plane; he places them vertically one above the other.

  39. Such a motive is entirely in place in a building which, by the general features of its architecture, seems a combination of fortress and triumphal arch.

  40. Patriotism is, perhaps, not properly to be considered as a distinct principle of our nature; but rather as a result of a combination of the other affections.

  41. Such a character exhibits a singular combination of moral delinquencies.

  42. We must practice so much that the instant we see a certain combination of notes on the staff, our hands immediately execute the proper strokes.

  43. Now one parent transmits to the child a certain combination of unit characters; the other parent, a different combination.

  44. And every emotion is made up of pleasantness or unpleasantness and the sensations produced by some combination of bodily reactions.

  45. The use of a thing or process, also any mental process or combination of processes considered as a unit.

  46. Such a combination naturally resulted in an occasional discordant note, which unfortunately was usually sounded in public.

  47. She was a rare combination of genius and beauty, and, apart from her remarkable personality, was a skilled linguist and an accomplished vocal and instrumental musician.

  48. This unusual combination of gifts suggests the Spanish saying: "Mira favorecida de Dios" ("Behold one favored of God!

  49. Such is the result I have deduced from the combination of numerous data furnished by Webb, Gerard, Herbert, and Moorcroft.

  50. In all the hundreds of miles of river traversed by the boat in its voyage up or down, there could be no other combination of marks just like the one which met the pilot's eye as he grasped the wheel.

  51. Mr. Lyon's nervous face presented a singular combination of pride at his own powers, chagrin at his predicament, and a general protest that the tender privacies of a millionaire should be thus disclosed.

  52. In any event in this way the combination of mediumistic and detective talent was broken up.

  53. He began to move noiselessly around the room--a rather ornately furnished combination sitting and bedroom.

  54. They lived in the most commodious apartment in the magnificent building in Thirtieth Street, and were surrounded by an elegant luxury which results from a combination of wealth and refined taste.

  55. A combination of all the softer emotional elements, she dominated self and others by a supreme will.

  56. And that was the reason that the great promised combination of December, 1864, never came off at all.

  57. For my own mother I got one "Belle of the Prairies" and one "Invisible Combination Gossamer.

  58. I occasionally read a periodical devoted to the elevation of mankind by means of a combination of deep breathing and concentrated thought.

  59. The combination of the scholar and gypsy has a fascination.

  60. Quixotism is a combination of goodness and folly.


  61. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "combination" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accompaniment; accord; accordance; addition; adjunct; admixture; affairs; affiliation; affinity; agglomeration; agglutination; aggregation; agreement; alignment; alliance; alloy; amalgam; amalgamation; approximation; argument; arrangement; articulation; assemblage; assembly; assimilation; associate; association; axis; band; blend; bloc; body; bond; brew; building; buildup; cabal; cahoots; canvass; cartel; census; chain; closeness; coalition; coincidence; collaboration; collection; college; collusion; combination; combine; communication; composed; composite; composition; compound; comradeship; concert; concoction; concordance; concourse; concurrence; confection; confederacy; confederation; confluence; congeries; conglomeration; conjugation; conjunction; connection; consolidation; conspiracy; constitution; construction; contiguity; contrariety; cooperation; cooperative; corps; correspondence; council; coupling; cross; dealings; decoction; deduction; disjunction; element; embodiment; ensemble; equation; fabrication; federation; fellowship; filiation; formation; formula; fraternity; fraternization; fusion; gang; gathering; group; grouping; homology; hybrid; identification; identity; inclusion; incorporation; individuality; integration; integrity; intercommunication; intercourse; interfusion; intermingling; intimacy; inventory; jointure; junction; junta; juxtaposition; league; liaison; link; linkage; machine; make; makeup; marriage; match; medley; meeting; merger; merging; mingling; mixing; mixture; mob; mobilization; muster; nearness; oneness; organization; package; pairing; parasitism; particularity; partnership; paste; petticoat; pluralism; propinquity; proximity; purity; rapport; relations; relationship; ring; rodeo; roundup; setup; similarity; simplicity; simultaneity; singleness; singularity; society; solidarity; solidification; solidity; sorority; splice; structure; suit; survey; symbiosis; sympathy; synchronism; syncretism; synthesis; system; tie; tissue; undergarments; unification; uniformity; union; unity; wedding; wholeness