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Example sentences for "detail"

Lexicographically close words:
detached; detaches; detaching; detachment; detachments; detailed; detailing; details; detain; detained
  1. Milan, leaving at Bologna, for the purpose of treating in detail the affair of the Pragmatic Sanction, his chancellor, Duprat, who had accompanied him during all this campaign as his adviser and negotiator.

  2. He was pleasantly surprised that his expenses upon the occasions would be very slight, for Arina Petrovna long before her death had put away a sum of money for her burial and itemized in detail the various expenditures.

  3. Every detail of the pitiful family chronicle was speedily exhausted, but it still held the minds of the two riveted.

  4. And when Mrs Yabsley could spare a minute, she described in detail the splendours of her father's home.

  5. About her ear, exquisitely small and delicate, the wind had blown a fluff of loose hair, and on this insignificant detail his eye dwelt with rapture.

  6. Jonah marked with an extraordinary pleasure every detail of her face and dress.

  7. His eyes travelled slowly round the room, taking in every detail of the humble furniture.

  8. Jonah watched her in silence, marking every detail of her tall figure with a curious sense of possession that years of intimacy had never given him with Ada.

  9. Jonah had been walking backwards and forwards with nervous steps, and she noted every detail of his person with a fixed stare.

  10. These outings, indeed, had nearly fallen through, when Jonah, fumbling for words and afraid to say what was on his mind, had touched on a detail of his business.

  11. It was the day with us of self-denials which I cannot trust myself to tell in detail lest I should overtell them.

  12. In A Boy's Town I have studied with a fidelity which I could not emulate here the whole life of it as a boy sees life, and I must leave the reader who cares for such detail to find it there.

  13. No detail of the time remains with me except what now seems to have been my day-long effort to keep warm by playing nine-pins with a Cincinnati journalist, much my senior, but as helpless as myself against the cold.

  14. What I am distinctly aware of, through a sense of rather sullen autumnal weather, is that a plan for our going into the country evolved itself in full detail between my father and uncle.

  15. I have not forgotten, with any detail of the time and place, a transgression of this sort which I was made to feel in its full significance.

  16. And Enoch told in detail both Seaton's and the Police Commissioner's efforts in his behalf.

  17. I merely brought that detail in because Brown is known to be your enemy and--" He hesitated as he saw the grim lines deepening around Enoch's mouth.

  18. Harden scratched a match and by its unsteady light scrutinized the detail map spread open on his knee.

  19. I've more important work to-night, and I want to go over every detail with you before you start out.

  20. The following detail was almost theatrical in its impression.

  21. Here is a detail which gave me great satisfaction.

  22. I now record a detail which is of some importance.

  23. The veneration of the Neapolitans for St. Joseph is surprising, as the following detail illustrates.

  24. A detail which hurt my feelings and which only the greedy curiosity of strangers can account for, was that bits of the linen had been boldly cut off and carried away as relics.

  25. I pass over Pisa and Florence which I shall describe in detail later.

  26. A detail which shows the favor with which the work was received is that it was given four times in succession during the same season.

  27. They don't understand and cannot understand details, but it is upon matters of detail that our security will have to depend, and we cannot be sure of efficiency unless a comprehensive statement be made showing the whole.

  28. I shall treat two of these cases in detail as material for our further consideration.

  29. Without going further into detail I would draw attention to the breasts and thighs, which positively raise a doubt on the question of sex.

  30. The period discussed in detail in the foregoing chapter ushered in a new and, until then, unknown feeling.

  31. The delights experienced by her are described in great detail and very sensuous language; hysterical conditions, such as painful convulsions, and hallucinations, are represented as religious phenomena.

  32. I am not able to carry out such a task in detail and, moreover, as I am dealing with the erotic life only, such a proceeding would be out of place here.

  33. So minute, so circumstantial had been the particulars of the dream, that, profoundly impressed at the time, he had related them in full detail to his wife.

  34. Space forbids following in detail the adventures of John Stanhope en route to Greece or the outcome of his researches there; an account of which latter, moreover, he published personally.

  35. I am greatly obliged to you for your account of my daughters," wrote Collingwood, in a letter which shows how minutely he was kept informed of every detail relating to them, even to their little tricks of speech and manner.

  36. She was dressed elegantly, moreover, in some dark colour which suited the brown hair and the slow hazel eyes which, Nora felt positive, had in one quiet glance taken in every detail of her appearance.

  37. John with solemnity, Miles with a covert sneer and a glance which took in every detail of the newcomer's person.

  38. During the same epoch other forms of maps in less detail and of smaller size show the characters that we have seen in the maps of earlier centuries.

  39. There was never any knowing with what new detail he was about to embellish it: and I have still to receive full credit for the tact that it required to follow his erratic lead convincingly.

  40. Yet, for choice, every detail was premeditated, and an alternative expedient at each finger's end for as many bare and awful possibilities.

  41. Whatever the future might bring, those who had come so far and dared so much feared that future no more than they had feared the troubles which in detail they had overcome in their vast pilgrimage.

  42. The pictures upon the walls, so far as I could remember their themes, did not deviate in any particular of detail or arrangement.

  43. These wholes are not collections of juxtaposed parts: they are organisms; that is to say, systems of connected functions, in which each detail implies the whole, and where the various elements interpenetrate.

  44. The temptation to describe in detail his extraordinary series of successes and of unexampled marches over snow-clad and pathless mountains must be resisted.

  45. We cannot pursue in detail the story of the futile campaign.

  46. Were I to speak for an entire year, I would never detail all the insults offered to Jesus in the Adorable Sacrament which were made known to me in this way.

  47. I cannot describe in detail all that there was in this part of the room, but all kinds of arrangements were being made there for preparing the Paschal Supper.

  48. The editorial of the Sun here referred to, after giving in detail the provisions of the Constitution for the counting of the electoral votes for President and Vice-President, proceeds to give the advice which so disturbed Messrs.

  49. That which follows gives a summary of the facts developed by the investigation which confirm in every detail the charges made in the Governor's message, besides adding very much to the total amount of confirming testimony.

  50. You will see the situation does not favor very active travel or overmuch sight-seeing or sociable festivities--but I am going too much into detail and yet imperfectly.

  51. But every other sickening detail was present--that of crashing shock and shaking earth, of crumbling homes, and cruel flame and fire.

  52. Diagnosis in detail is not essential here.

  53. Pepys' diary and letters inform us how the pursers of the time supplied the men with slops, and in The British Fleet considerable detail on this subject is given.

  54. Bass describes in detail all that Hunter tells in his despatch, but the intrepid explorer scarcely mentions the hardships and dangers with which he met.

  55. MacArthur was right enough on one detail of this dispute.

  56. We must next turn our attention to the technical methods of presenting the materials of fiction, and notice in detail the most important devices employed by all fiction-writers in order to fulfil the purpose of their art.

  57. Undoubtedly the easiest means of inculcating a detail of narrative is to repeat it again and again.

  58. The first detail we must attend to is the choice of words.

  59. Perhaps in no other detail of craftsmanship does Robert Louis Stevenson so clearly prove his mastery as in his marshaling of the weather, always vividly and truthfully described, to serve a purpose always fitting to his fictions.

  60. It is greatly to be regretted that he did not write a similar essay outlining in detail the successive stages in the structure of one of his short-stories.

  61. I need not detail the confusion and panic of the government officials who were gathered here in the room where Don, Jane and I stood watching and listening to the excitement of the incoming reports.

  62. It is no part of my plan for this narrative to try and detail the events in New York City as the apparitions advanced upon it.

  63. The thorough familiarity which you have shown with the subject of your work is equaled only by the accuracy of its detail and the graphic pictures which illustrate the scenes described.

  64. The halyards are then securely fastened to the cleat on the staff and the detail marched to the guardhouse.

  65. He then turns the detail over to the commander of the guard and retires.

  66. The detail to dig them should wait until informed of the location.

  67. The first sergeant then verifies the detail, inspects it, replaces any man unfit to go on guard, turns the detail over to the senior noncommissioned officer, and retires.

  68. Each detail commander closes the rear rank to the right and fills blank files as far as practicable with the men from his front rank.

  69. An officer should inspect the sink as soon as the detail reports it as completed.

  70. It is the most important detail to master in pistol or revolver shooting.

  71. If the number of prisoners, including general prisoners, confined at a post justifies it, the commanding officer will detail a commissioned officer as "officer in charge of prisoners.

  72. If canteens are to be refilled, it should be done by order, and a detail is generally made for this purpose.

  73. When practicable, a detail consisting of a noncommissioned officer and two privates of the guard will raise or lower the flag.

  74. The noncommissioned officer, carrying the flag, forms the detail in line, takes his post in the center and marches it to the staff.

  75. At assembly, the detail for guard falls in on the company parade ground.


  76. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "detail" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accredit; accuracy; adjunct; allocate; allot; amplify; angle; appoint; appropriate; appurtenance; army; article; aspect; assign; authorize; background; band; battalion; battery; bevy; body; breadth; brigade; bunch; cabal; cadre; case; cast; charge; charter; circumstance; circumstantiality; cite; clique; cohort; column; commission; commit; company; complement; complete; component; consign; constituent; contents; contingent; corps; coterie; count; covey; crew; crowd; datum; define; delegate; delicacy; deputize; descant; describe; design; destine; detach; detachment; detail; develop; devolve; dilate; division; document; dole; earmark; elaborate; element; empower; enlarge; entrust; enumerate; evolve; exactness; expand; expatiate; explain; explicate; facet; fact; faction; factor; fate; feature; figure; file; fixings; fleet; foil; form; fraction; gang; garrison; get; group; grouping; incidental; individualize; ingredient; installment; instance; inventory; item; junta; labor; license; lot; makings; matter; mention; minutiae; mission; mob; motif; movement; narrate; nicety; number; ordain; organization; outfit; outline; pack; parcel; parse; part; particular; particularity; particularize; party; pattern; percentage; phalanx; platoon; point; portion; posse; post; precise; precision; punctuality; quadrant; quarter; quota; rank; recapitulate; recite; recount; refinement; regard; regiment; rehearse; relate; remainder; report; reserve; resolve; respect; restrict; rigor; salon; sample; scan; schedule; section; sector; segment; setting; share; sketch; specialize; specialty; specification; specify; squad; squadron; stable; stipulate; strictness; string; style; subdivision; subgroup; substantiate; subtlety; sum; summarize; team; term; theme; thing; total; touch; train; transfer; tribe; troop; troupe; unfold; unit; warrant; wing


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    detailed account; detailed description; detailed statement