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Example sentences for "effect"

Lexicographically close words:
effaced; effacement; effacer; effaces; effacing; effecte; effected; effectes; effecting; effective
  1. An unbiased investigation of the dogmas and their supposed historical foundations will prove that the salvation which Christianity offers, and the means by which it proposes to effect the world's salvation, are extremely fanciful in nature.

  2. To the same effect is the following letter of the bishop of Mende, in France, bearing date of the year 800 A.

  3. Sutherland has assured us that, the heavier the sea, the more necessary is luncheon for the weaker vessels, who may be timid about the effect of so much rolling and pitching.

  4. The jealousy of English artists will have no effect on public opeenion.

  5. This chance reference to Angus Sutherland was surely made with the best intentions; but it produced a strange effect on the girl.

  6. Next they tried the effect of a bit of the skull of a suicide, and sent for this treasure a distance of from sixty to one hundred miles.

  7. See also to the same effect Abon Szalt, p.

  8. Consequently, I am the last man in the world to deny that if the net effect of performing Mrs Warren's Profession were an increase in the number of persons entering that profession, its performance should be dealt with accordingly.

  9. The effect of her own beauty would become a torment to her if she could not escape from it occasionally.

  10. The effect of her speech and of her action was electrical.

  11. She always scores through trickery," Bobby observed, and watched the effect of this remark on his disapproving listener.

  12. A brief separation might more readily effect a reconciliation between them than the present hostile conditions of life together promised.

  13. I prowl about most nights," he said, and scrutinised her face intently to observe the effect of his words.

  14. The effect of her was dazzling--a white shining thing of milk and roses against the soft greens of the bank.

  15. There was a dingy serviceable effect about everything.

  16. You sit altogether too near to get the best effect of my pictorial exhibition.

  17. The older dwellings now begin to look weather-beaten, through the effect of the many eastern storms that have moistened their unpainted shingles and clapboards, for not less than forty years.

  18. The immediate effect upon Rome, either from one or from the other, was nearly the same.

  19. Hence has come to us a story through Aulus Gellius, the compiler of anecdotes, to the effect that Cicero was fain to borrow this money from a client whose cause he undertook in requital for the favor so conferred.

  20. He has been speaking of the effect of the proposed law on the revenues of the State, and then proceeds: "But I pass by what I have to say on that matter and reserve it for the people.

  21. But we know from the evidence of the day, and from the character which remained of him through after Roman ages, how great was the immediate effect of his oratory.

  22. Cicero was speaking of the effect of this or that step on his own part.

  23. I think we must conclude from this that Cicero had almost expected that his attack upon the conspirators, in his first Catiline oration, would have the effect of causing him to be killed.

  24. This will have but little effect upon our lives or our property.

  25. The Gracchi had attempted to effect something of the same kind at Rome; but the moral condition of the people had become so low that no real love of liberty remained.

  26. It was to the moral effect of his words that he must trust: "Non jubeo, sed si me consulis, suadeo.

  27. Instead of the joy and ease which had lately prevailed, the effect of the long peace, a sudden sadness fell upon every one.

  28. Clodius, as soon as the enactment against Cicero became law, caused it be carried into effect with all its possible cruelties.

  29. The present object was to have a proposition made and carried suddenly, in reference to Cicero, which should have, at any rate, the effect of stopping his mouth.

  30. This was the effect left on the mind of an accurate thinker and most just man.

  31. It is allowed to the speaker to produce effect by diminishing and exaggerating.

  32. He swore, on the spur of the moment, a solemn oath, not in accordance with the form common to Consuls on leaving office, but to the effect that during his Consulship Rome had been saved by his work alone.

  33. Obviously the ship had been moving at great speed, its effect on the passengers lessened by the huge glass shield in front of the ship's prow.

  34. It had no seeming effect upon the hull of the Baserite raider, but it hurled the craft back from its position and far out into the sky.

  35. Its needfull, therefore, if wee would see the effect wrought by the Diversity of Figure, first to make choice of a Matter of its nature apt to penetrate the Crassitude of the water.

  36. D] The Figure & Resistance of the Medium against Division, have nothing to do with the Effect of Natation or Submersion, by an Experiment in Wallnut tree.

  37. Therefore, it must be somewhat else, and not the Figure, that stayeth the Board of Ebany above water, of which Figure the only Effect is the retardment of the Motion, according to which it descendeth more slowly than the Ball.

  38. The Effect of the Airs Contiguity in the Natation of Solids.

  39. If I'm right, it will merely be a new way of looking at the Universe as a whole, and it won't have the slightest effect on anything.

  40. The school was run on what Miss Wakefield called the Honor System, which had the effect of dividing the pupils into tale-bearers and secret rebels.

  41. That letter is a rather singular effect of Laperouse's study of Cook, which might be illustrated by further examples.

  42. So that, we see, the extent of our great sailor's influence is not to be measured even by his discoveries and the effect of his writings upon his own countrymen.

  43. And, to effect the surest and best results, these children must be reached just as early in life as possible.

  44. The insignificant contribution of a quarantinist would, in the aggregate, even if participated in by only half the people, easily effect a Perfect Social Quarantine worthy of the highest Christian Ideals.

  45. We will also immediately reach cases of shiftlessness and depravity that are a menace to the peace of the community and effect in them reforms that present methods cannot accomplish.

  46. Committee on Statistics and Laws; following the careers of children to note effect and permanency of cultivation; to be used in legislation when needed.

  47. But that of Lola Montez had a similar effect on a monarch.

  48. Ferdinand Bac declares that this practice was "largely the fault of Dumas, who, in his romances, would describe lovely women throwing themselves between the combatants to effect their reconciliation.

  49. Her favourite material was velvet, which she considered--and quite justifiably--to exercise an erotic effect on men of a certain age.

  50. They can effect legislation only by quiet and judicious counsel, with such means as control the judgment and the heart of legislators.

  51. They did it and attempted to effect an entrance by breaking down the door.

  52. This was to the effect that the couple had slipped off to the Nilgiri Hills and had decided to stop there.

  53. They can effect legislation only by quiet and judicious counsel.

  54. Apart, too, from other considerations, the edict hit the pockets of the local tradesmen, since the absence of a couple of thousand hungry and thirsty customers had an adverse effect on the consumption of sauerkraut and beer.

  55. It is not as a religious creed that we are looking at this thing; it is not for its theological sins that we are here to condemn it; but it is its effect upon political and social freedom that we are discussing.

  56. The only thing that was done, but without producing any effect in high quarters, was that the Chamber of Deputies unanimously voted a protestation against the deposition of the professors.

  57. Notwithstanding the effect produced by this piquant eccentricity, Mile Lola has not met with the reception she anticipated; and it has been deemed proper by the management to dispense with her reappearance.

  58. This was to the effect that, when she was appearing at the Porte St. Martin, she had run up a bill for certain intimate undergarments and had neglected to settle the account.

  59. This form is equivalent in effect to that known as the "Regardless" order, which reads thus: "No.

  60. It is important that the holding effect of an order not signed for should be clearly understood, so that the Dispatcher may run trains with confidence against a train so held.

  61. Orders once in effect continue so until fulfilled, superseded, or annulled.

  62. Neither is it proper that it should have any effect whatever until the Dispatcher is assured, by the acknowledgment of the "O K," that it has been received.

  63. These considerations as to the holding effect of an order when the telegraph fails, do not, of course, apply to a general order, as one annulling a train, until such order is specially addressed to a train.

  64. It should be held as a cardinal principle in train dispatching that an order is not to be taken as having greater effect than is actually expressed.

  65. The character and effect of these two forms of Time Orders are sufficiently clear from the explanatory rules.

  66. The effect would have been, for the particular inferior train, the same as under Example 1 for all trains.

  67. When a regular train is to carry signals to denote that a second section is to follow on the same schedule, the author is of the opinion that a train order to this effect should be given in a definite form.

  68. The physician, fearing the effect upon him of the least excitement, made a motion to me enjoining silence, and mixing a quieting cordial, held it to his lips.

  69. First, he tried coaxing, and as that proved of little avail, he next tried the effect of a few vigorous strokes with a long switch which he carried in his hand.

  70. The manner in which Mr. Harland addressed them, together with the gentle and lady-like appearance of his wife had the effect to shame them into silence.

  71. Instead of becoming disheartened our approaching fate emboldened us, and by looks, whose expression made known our minds to each other, we resolved to effect our escape or be slain in striving for it.

  72. You remember the effect of Captain Shandon’s tipsy ditty upon the good Colonel Newcome; an effect somewhat similar was now produced on the neglected wives.

  73. At the end of the garden was a formidable grotto—the effect of which was somewhat marred by the introduction of pieces of coloured glass.

  74. Upon Henry Chilcott the effect of such interchanges of sentiment with Kate Arbery varied.

  75. Before carrying into effect this resolution he purchased garments more suitable to the accepted lover than the rough, and, indeed, eccentric clothes which he had picked up on his travels.

  76. He described the progress and effect of delirium tremens.

  77. Fortunately for the country side, John Osbaldiston never sat on the bench alone, and his own view as to the depravity of human nature could not take effect in sentences unless a majority of the bench was with him.

  78. Appearing before a committee of the House of Lords, he gave his testimony as to the effect which the proposed terminal works of the Manchester ship canal would have upon the estuary of the Mersey and the bar at Liverpool.

  79. The effect has spread to remote districts; and by this reduction in rates and prices there is no doubt that the Jetties have made living cheaper on the Atlantic seaboard as well as in the Mississippi Valley.

  80. But enough money to try it thoroughly has never been appropriated; and so little effect has patching had, that at this very day there are still advocates of the scheme of drawing off some of the water,--a scheme which Eads blasted years ago.

  81. My trials have been, and will no doubt continue to be, the trials of thousands of my sex; but the manner in which I acted under them, and their effect on my feelings and my character, must be peculiar to myself.

  82. And also I felt a little mortified to find De Walden so willing to effect our union, and so active in his endeavours to further it.

  83. Footnote 1110: Such has also been the effect of similar declarations set forth in the Constitutions of the United Nations, the European Community, as well as many individual nations.

  84. Tenacity of life irritates them, as if it were a rebellion against their despotism, the effect of which is to render them only the more violent against their victim.

  85. With no others in his empty head, these blend together through an irresistible attraction, and the effect proceeding from their contact may be imagined.

  86. Soon raising his style, he launched out in patriotic terms, liberty, sovereignty of the people, with such vehemence and in so loud a voice, as to suddenly effect a great change and bring down thunders of applause.

  87. Conceive the effect of this motion read at evening to peasants who are at this very moment claiming their lord's forest for their commune.

  88. The effect of such assassinations is great and only a few are required; especially when they go unpunished, which is always the case.

  89. Two kinds of men make up the recruits, and it is especially on their crude brains that we have to admire the effect of the revolutionary dogma.

  90. Hence the effect of ideological prejudice on them in weakening their moral attitudes.

  91. Let us trace the effect of this excessive, unhealthy temperature on imaginations and ambitions.

  92. Miss Clough hoped to effect a real and lasting union between the old students and Newnham--that the college might be the support of the students, and the students of the college.

  93. The transformation of houses of canons serving a church or cathedral into Regular Canons in the xii and xiii centuries was the effect of the rule indited by Yvo of Chartres which gave its final form and name to the "Canons Regular of S.

  94. It is only the effect of a Cause--the Dust of the Actual.

  95. Compare the effect produced upon the minds of these Hindu men by what they saw of our services, with the effect intended to be produced by the Holy Ghost.

  96. The one who in the morning had been an illustration of the possible effect of the mixture of East and West, stood in a dignity he had not then, a fine manly form.

  97. Just then an ancient Christian appeared on the scene and quavered in, in the middle of the marvel, with words to the effect that our God was the true God, and they ought to have faith in Him.

  98. She floated past with a nod and a smile, and joined the little group of three who were standing outside the Cancel rails, surveying the effect of the completed vases.

  99. She did not kiss her sister, for kisses were not frequent in the Mallison family, and the sudden unlocking of Mary's sealed lips left an effect of strangeness, as if some stranger had taken her place.

  100. Teresa had taken off her dress, and put on a plainly made blue cashmere dressing-gown, the loose folds of which disguised the somewhat ungainly lines of her figure, and gave to it an effect of dignity and height.

  101. Teresa was occupied in taking in the details of Grizel's costume, in condemning the blue snood, and determining to try the effect on her own hair immediately on her return home.

  102. It must have a depressing effect on the sermons!

  103. You'd get more effect from good-sized bunches!

  104. Only one person laughed, and that laugh had had the effect of heightening the general condemnation.

  105. He sent down a hamper of flowers, however, with an envelope enclosing a short note written on his thickest paper, which to the maternal eye might give the effect of length.

  106. He had received one or two post-card bulletins from Grizel, and knew that the shock of the accident had left no lasting effect on Cassandra, but it was not until the morning of the tenth day that he heard of her arrival at the Court.

  107. Dane was conscious that to each of the four hearers his words had come with the effect of a shock.

  108. The two girls were silent and self-contained, but the emotions of the day had had an exciting effect on Mrs Mallison's nerves, with the gruesome result that she appeared to be in the highest of spirits.

  109. She stopped, leaving the effect of an unfinished sentence, but Dane had no difficulty in divining her thoughts.

  110. The effect of my encounter with Ann, I could then have found no word to describe.

  111. Just look at the effect this sort of business has had on our politics!

  112. If two or three offenders were severely punished it would have a salutary effect on the morals of their entire force.

  113. There was a weak subterfuge to the effect that Margot knew nothing of our dishonesty.

  114. At first I was worried about the effect on the children.

  115. One effect of the discussion was to awaken the Prisoner's Aid Society to a realization that something ought to be done.

  116. Besides holding our hearts together through long periods of separation, it had the effect of making us tolerant of each other's yarns--and even convictions.

  117. My dear aunt's influential acquaintances were producing an unexpected effect upon that young man.

  118. It was cut short all at once, and the low droning went on with an effect of audible and soothing silence.

  119. The movement of the woman was stately, and the effect of the torchlight on the face was sinister.

  120. A steady droning sound of many men chanting each to himself some weird incantation came out from the black, flat wall of the woods as the humming of bees comes out of a hive, and had a strange narcotic effect upon my half-awake senses.

  121. It requires no imagination to picture the effect which the original discovery of this image of their god must have had upon a primitive community of sun-worshippers.

  122. It has the effect at a distance of an enormous up-pointing finger which has been amputated just below the middle joint.

  123. Under torchlight the effect is remarkable.

  124. I myself can testify to the surprising recuperative effect of only half a dozen daily baths, and I know business men who habitually go there whenever the stress of overwork demands measures of quick relief.


  125. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "effect" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accomplish; achieve; action; administer; aftermath; aim; ambition; angle; animus; artifact; ascendancy; aspect; aspiration; attain; author; authority; bear; bearing; beef; beget; breed; bring; carry; catastrophe; cause; cessation; charge; charm; child; clout; coda; cogency; coinage; coloring; commit; compass; complete; composition; compulsion; conceive; conclusion; concoction; configuration; connotation; consequence; constitute; consummate; consummation; contrive; control; corollary; counsel; create; creation; creature; credit; culmination; curtain; curtains; death; decease; denouement; derivation; descendant; desideratum; design; desire; destination; destiny; determination; development; dint; discharge; dispatch; distillate; distillation; dominance; domination; doom; drift; drive; duress; earn; effect; effectiveness; effectuate; eidolon; elicit; eminence; enact; enchantment; ending; energy; enforce; engender; ensure; eschatology; essence; establish; esteem; event; eventuality; evoke; excite; execute; exercise; expiration; extension; extract; facet; fashion; fate; father; favor; feature; fetch; figure; finale; finality; finis; finish; float; force; form; found; fruit; fulfil; fulfill; function; generate; get; gist; goal; guise; handiwork; harvest; heir; hold; honor; idea; image; impact; implement; implication; import; importance; impression; inaugurate; induce; inflict; influence; insinuation; inspire; install; instigate; intent; invention; invoke; issue; last; lead; leadership; legacy; leverage; light; likeness; line; lineage; lineaments; look; magnetism; make; mana; manage; manner; manufacture; mark; masterpiece; mastery; materialize; meaning; might; mind; mintage; moment; motivate; motive; obey; observe; obtain; occasion; offshoot; offspring; opera; opus; organize; originate; origination; outcome; outgrowth; overtone; pay; perfect; perform; period; peroration; perpetrate; personality; persuasion; pertinence; phase; pith; plan; point; posterity; potency; potentiality; power; precipitate; predominance; preponderance; prepotency; pressure; prestige; procure; produce; product; production; productiveness; productivity; project; promulgate; proposal; prosecute; prospectus; provoke; pull; punch; purchase; purport; purpose; push; quietus; ramification; reaction; realize; reference; reflection; regard; reign; relation; relevance; render; repercussion; repute; resolution; resolve; respect; response; result; resultant; rule; sake; say; scope; seeming; semblance; sense; sequel; sequence; shape; show; side; significance; signification; simulacrum; sinew; sire; slant; sound; spirit; steam; stoppage; strength; striving; study; style; substance; succeed; successor; suggestion; sum; superiority; superpower; supremacy; sway; tableau; take; tenor; term; terminal; termination; terminus; transact; twist; undertone; upshot; validity; value; vehemence; view; viewpoint; vigor; vim; virility; virtue; virulence; vitality; weight; will; wise; work; pull; punch; purchase; purport; purpose; push; quietus; ramification; reaction; realize; reference; reflection; regard; reign; relation; relevance; render; repercussion; repute; resolution; resolve; respect; response; result; resultant; rule; sake; say; scope; seeming; semblance; sense; sequel; sequence; shape; show; side; significance; signification; simulacrum; sinew; sire; slant; sound; spirit; steam; stoppage; strength; striving; study; style; substance; succeed; successor; suggestion; sum; superiority; superpower; supremacy; sway; tableau; take; tenor; term; terminal; termination; terminus; transact; twist; undertone; upshot; validity; value; vehemence; view; viewpoint; vigor; vim; virility; virtue; virulence; vitality; weight; will; wise; work


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    effect since; effect their; effect their safety and; effect upon; effective force; effective strength; effectual calling