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Example sentences for "discord"

Lexicographically close words:
discontinued; discontinuing; discontinuity; discontinuous; discoorse; discordance; discordances; discordant; discordantly; discorde
  1. Sidenote: Discord betwixt the cardinall and the archbishop of Canturburie.

  2. Sidenote: The causes of the discord betwixt the king and his barons.

  3. Mr. O'Brien deprecated the ill-feeling and discord such language was calculated to provoke.

  4. I am not aware that there was ever a serious discord or misunderstanding between Mr. Lincoln and General Grant except on a single occasion.

  5. Persons are laboring to sow discord among us; and who?

  6. The government denounced the story as a scheme to create discord and break down the national champion.

  7. The Ligue du Bien public was formed by the great nobles through compassion for the miseries of the kingdom "under the discord and piteous government of Louis XI.

  8. So long as this apparently inevitable and irremediable discord does not appear to affect the general march of events, it is glozed over.

  9. Three other like winters will follow, during which war and discord will spread over the universe.

  10. For a time the arrangement worked well, but eventually discord sprang up and imperiled the unity of the kingdom.

  11. But the elements of civil discord at last exhausted themselves.

  12. It was bad for America to pass through that phase of agitation and discord which preceded the revolutionary war.

  13. Aggressive Orangeism was to be found sowing discord where no cause for discord existed.

  14. And discord feels her empire ended At Almacks--or at least suspended.

  15. And we will reach this, too, if we do not ourselves relinquish the chance by the folly and evils of disunion or by long and exhausting war springing from the only great element of national discord among us.

  16. Thus, we in the free world are moving steadily toward unity and cooperation, in the teeth of that old Bolshevik prophecy, and at the very time when extraordinary rumbles of discord can be heard across the Iron Curtain.

  17. It is the earnest wish of this Government to remove all sources of discord and irritation in our relations with the neighboring Dominion.

  18. Discord is said to have made the elements immortal, because he kept them apart, and would willingly have preserved their separate qualities; whereas love mixes them together, breaks up their continuity, and confuses their kinds.

  19. Love now is omnipotent; she has knit all the elements into one whole; Discord has retreated, and abides beyond the globe.

  20. The pathos of the situation is almost too heart-rending; at one moment its intensity verges upon discord; but the resolution of the discord comes in that long cadence of triumphant harmony when the anagnorisis at length arrives.

  21. The all-pervading harmony is marred by a discord due, in his phraseology, to the fall of man.

  22. Admitting the value of the reflection that other beings besides man are fitting objects of the Divine benevolence, we are jarred by such a discord as this: While man exclaims, See all things for my use!

  23. Over the ultimate cause of this discord lies a veil which can never be withdrawn to mortal intelligence.

  24. Just here, however, there was an unresolved discord in the imaginative theme.

  25. Having a sensitive ear for the imaginative harmonies, the unresolved discord annoyed him.

  26. It was surely the goddess of discord who ordained that the blow should be struck while the iron was hot.

  27. The nature that He had given her revolted at it all, and though she could not understand it, she began to find a jarring discord between herself and all things.

  28. But if you do not do it, you will be in discord with the will of God.

  29. Schism is threatening, and she knows it: "I seem to have heard that discord is arising yonder between Christ on earth and his disciples: from which thing I receive an intolerable grief.

  30. The thought that poor Nanni's love for innocent Jonathan was a misfortune which would exercise a pernicious influence upon the whole course of his subsequent life was only due to the perverse discord in Wacht's soul.

  31. But the very fact that this discord was able to go on making itself heard in the otherwise harmonical character of this thoroughly noble man, embraced the impossibility of smothering it or reducing it completely to silence.


  32. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "discord" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    antagonism; bedlam; blast; brawl; breach; cacophony; charivari; clamor; clap; clash; clatter; clinker; coarseness; commotion; conflict; contention; contradiction; controversy; deity; differ; difference; din; disaccord; disagree; disagreement; discord; discrepancy; disharmony; disparity; dispute; dissension; dissent; dissidence; dissimilarity; dissonance; disunion; divergence; diversity; divide; division; dryness; enmity; faction; feud; fight; flap; fracas; fray; friction; goddess; harshness; howl; hubbub; hullabaloo; incompatibility; inequality; jangle; jar; lawlessness; mischief; misleading; misunderstanding; negation; noise; opposition; outcry; pandemonium; quarrel; racket; rattle; repugnance; rhubarb; rivalry; roar; roughness; row; rub; ruckus; rudeness; rumble; rumpus; sharpness; shindy; sourness; split; stridor; strife; tension; thickness; thunder; trouble; tumult; ugliness; unpleasantness; uproar; variance; vary; strife; tension; thickness; thunder; trouble; tumult; ugliness; unpleasantness; uproar; variance; vary