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Example sentences for "emphasised"

Lexicographically close words:
emperour; empery; empescher; emphasis; emphasise; emphasises; emphasising; emphasize; emphasized; emphasizes
  1. He had always been obstinate, and the approach of death had emphasised his few salient qualities, as decay had emphasised the bodily frame.

  2. Realising the reason for their unfortunate plight he bustled up to the Commanding Officer and emphasised the urgent necessity to give us a meal.

  3. But as I emphasised my deaf and dumb infirmity he ceased, doubtless feeling that his energy was being wasted.

  4. The reverse side shows a lozenge pattern, and each one of the spaces contains a fleur de lis, emphasised at the corner by a square.

  5. The Epicureans, on the other hand, fastening upon the emotions as the measure of truth, emphasised the happiness of the individual as the chief good--a doctrine which led some of the followers of Epicurus to justify even sensual enjoyment.

  6. The value of his soul in this sense is repeatedly emphasised in scripture.

  7. The character of Jesus has been variously interpreted, and it is one of the evidences of His moral greatness that each age has emphasised some new aspect of His {148} personality.

  8. The sound of the violin had emphasised her odd sensation of having nothing to do with what was going on in the room.

  9. The bells in the water were still ringing languidly, and their voices emphasised the pervading silence, a silence full of the pensive melancholy of Nature in decline.

  10. The shape of each medallion would be emphasised by a series of coloured lines or fillets framing it.

  11. Very occasionally a feature, such as the group of four crowns which form the centre of the circle, above, might be emphasised by filling in the ground about them in solid pigment; but that was never done to any large extent.

  12. Not death, but life was to be emphasised as the will of God.

  13. It reasserted the creed of Nicaea, emphasised the Catholic teaching of the Divinity of the Holy Ghost, and condemned the heresy of Apollinaris.

  14. The Council also emphasised the importance of the position now held by the New Rome by enacting that it should be "magnified in ecclesiastical matters even like the elder imperial Rome, as being next to it.

  15. She emphasised her words with a truly British scorn for those who live by their brains.

  16. When he came to see, that, to preserve the people from moral degradation, fear of the Judgments of God had to be preached, he urged that it should be emphasised and declared it quite essential.

  17. The Church taught, what the Council of Trent emphasised anew, viz.

  18. He gave these instructions in a lower tone, and emphasised them by a stormy and ominous frown.

  19. But she emphasised 'my house,' and 'I want you to lend me.

  20. It cannot be emphasised too strongly that the induration of the primary lesion, which has obtained for it the name of "hard chancre," is its most important characteristic.

  21. It is true that the historic Church has at once emphasised celibacy and emphasised the family; has at once (if one may put it so) been fiercely for having children and fiercely for not having children.

  22. The difficulty is well emphasised by the fact that naturalists disagree most profoundly as to the relations of various genera of extinct Tapir-like animals.

  23. The carnassial tooth is less emphasised in this group than in the Cats.

  24. Its independence from the epistropheus is emphasised in Monotremes and some Marsupials by its late fusion with that vertebra.

  25. Its rarity is emphasised by the fact that it is not mentioned in the recent work of that most skilful of hunters, Mr. F.

  26. The fact that he was tall profited him nothing, for it merely emphasised the extreme ungracefulness of his figure.

  27. I emphasised this by mentioning that if, during our visit to Zeebrugge Mole, they heard a thunderous explosion they could say to themselves, "That's one of them.

  28. It cannot be over-emphasised that this new-born child makes these connections for himself, that the entire value of having these connections made is in the fact that he makes them for himself.

  29. The Pelagians, who were refuted by St. Augustine, emphasised the efficacy of human effort and belittled the importance of supernatural grace.

  30. The Calvinists emphasised the degradation of man through Original Sin, and considered mankind so corrupt that the will was of no avail; and thus fell into the doctrine of predestination.

  31. In the National Assembly, two arguments in particular served to support the new law: those in favour of the bill emphasised over and over again that the Arabs themselves urgently desired the introduction of private property.

  32. Marx repeatedly stressed and emphasised the fact that he considered replacement of the constant capital from the aggregate social product the most difficult and important problem of reproduction.

  33. To make matters worse, an enthusiastic Hamburg admirer labelled the new composition 'A Tenth Symphony,' and so emphasised the resemblance in a manner which would have been hardly possible to an open antagonism.

  34. And with that, as in my case, he emphasised his remark with a smart kick on Jack's shins.

  35. He emphasised the word "good," as much as to say that some of his son's friends were not very desirable.

  36. Here the emphasised beats are not only subjectively, but also objectively accentuated.

  37. Consequently the ceremony was not performed until Elizabeth had been his wife for very nearly two years, being thus emphasised as a mere act of grace.

  38. His sojourn abroad emphasised his Protestantism; he utilised it also to acquire a very extensive knowledge of foreign affairs, though he omitted to make himself a master of the Spanish tongue.

  39. It was one of the habits which emphasised most strongly the moral distance between her and her parents.

  40. It shows that on the more conventional lines of fictitious intrigue, acting as cement, and in the interplay of emphasised characters, Gissing could, if he liked, excel.

  41. But the later literature emphasised the coming of King Messiah, and the Jews therefore refer to this period as "the days of the Messiah.

  42. No doubt the "threeness" was emphasised by the habit of three immersions in baptism, whatever the origin of this practice may be, and by philosophic reflections as to the properties of triangles such as are found in Philo.

  43. The beginning of the discussion was probably the publication of Johannes Weiss' monograph[11] on the preaching of Jesus as to the Kingdom of God, in which he emphasised the future aspect of the Kingdom.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "emphasised" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.