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Example sentences for "exemplify"

Lexicographically close words:
exempli; exemplification; exemplifications; exemplified; exemplifies; exemplifying; exemplo; exemplum; exempt; exempted
  1. To have made it exemplify the Method of Residues, the effect of the resistance of the air and that of the rigidity of the silk should have been calculated a priori, from the laws obtained by separate and foregone experiments.

  2. We cannot attempt mentally to exemplify the conditions of the assertion in an imaginary case opposed to it, without violating our habitual recollection of this experience, and defacing our mental picture of space as grounded on it.

  3. There are two virtues which Christians have found it very hard to exemplify in practice.

  4. They all exemplify the true position of woman in the Old Testament.

  5. Rebekah in her beautiful girlhood at the well drawing water for man and beast, so full of compassion, does not exemplify the virtues we looked for, in her mature womanhood.

  6. It contains a series of exercises for his pupils, probably for the sake of double translation, and merely designed to exemplify Latin idioms.

  7. The celebrated eulogy on the St. Bartholomew Massacre, delivered before the Pope, will serve as a very fair specimen, to exemplify the Latinity of Muretus.

  8. Our domesticated animals exemplify very fully the superficial variations which, through man's selection, have in many cases been segregated and to some extent stereotyped.

  9. Let us first notice that normal cases of reproduction exemplify both phenomena--heredity with variation; hereditary similarity to the parents in all essential respects, individual variations in minor points.

  10. I will now give two instances of intelligence in vertebrates which exemplify phases of inference somewhat different from those which we have so far considered.

  11. The metazoa are cell-aggregates; and in them the cells exemplify a physiological division of labour.

  12. There are entire families, of nearly every class of animals, which in the state of their perfect development exemplify such prophetic relations.

  13. They most strikingly exemplify the adamantine grip which each one of the two nationalizations kept upon its greatest and best.

  14. It did not become so bad as this with human slaveholders; but the consequent disadvantage was very great, as we shall now exemplify with some detail.

  15. The following two verses of the first psalm may exemplify this:-- MS.

  16. The following brief extracts may exemplify the hermit's rendering and the change the text underwent in later copies.

  17. The third and fourth stages he defines exemplify achieving enlightenment by Universality alone and achieving enlightenment by Particularity alone.

  18. She herself was a very small and slight old lady, but she had inherited from the hardy New England race from which she sprang a certain tradition of vitality and longevity which she lived long enough to exemplify in her own person.

  19. But in themselves these definitions are secondhand and conventional; there is danger that instead of inciting one to effort after personal experiences that will exemplify and verify them, they will be accepted on authority as substitutes.

  20. Sidenote: Science is the same operations carefully performed] Sciences exemplify similar attitudes and operations, but with a higher degree of elaboration of the instruments of caution, exactness and thoroughness.

  21. The test of the distinctness of a meaning is that it shall successfully mark off a group of things that exemplify the meaning from other groups, especially of those objects that convey nearly allied meanings.

  22. Illustration] Our copy of his cut of the Partridge, though not equal to the original, will perhaps to a certain extent serve to exemplify his practice.

  23. The following examples, principally taken from Martin and Westall's Illustrations, will exemplify the talents of a few of the distinguished artists above mentioned.

  24. The cut on the opposite page and the five next following, of single figures, copied on a reduced scale from the Triumphs, will exemplify the preceding observations.

  25. The subject which he made choice of to exemplify what he considered his original discovery, was an old horse waiting for death.

  26. So he threw up business and went in for a country life.

  27. Not in the slightest, I assure you," replied Mr. Pomfret easily.

  28. Scheiner's spectrographic researches at Potsdam in 1890 and subsequently, exemplify the immense advantages of self-registration.

  29. The adventures of Lexell's comet have long served to exemplify the effects of Jupiter's despotic sway over such bodies.

  30. To exemplify an inductive lesson, there may be noted the process of learning the rule that to multiply the numerator and denominator of any fraction by the same number does not alter the value of the fraction.

  31. The following outlines will explain and exemplify these auxiliary lesson types.

  32. But if I were to content myself with the enunciation of these dry definitions, I should ill exemplify that method of teaching this branch of physical science, which it is my chief business to-night to recommend.

  33. Proverbs, indeed, exemplify and epitomize the essentially literary type of thinking and speaking.

  34. There seldom occurs a hard-laboured expression, or a redundant epithet; all his verses exemplify his own definition of a good style, they consist of "proper words in proper places.

  35. A survey of the life and writings of Prior may exemplify a sentence which he doubtless understood well, when he read Horace at his uncle's; "the vessel long retains the scent which it first receives.

  36. And here again, the reader may exemplify the great advantages to be obtained from the habit of tracing the proper meaning and history of words.

  37. Indeed, I know not in what other instance I could better exemplify the species of sophistry noticed in p.

  38. Discoveries in science, and the higher scientific processes, as likewise broad and intense intellectual action, exemplify often intellectual beauty.

  39. The following story will exemplify how completely the authorities at Meerut were blinded by this misplaced confidence.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "exemplify" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    address; allegorize; cite; clarify; crack; decipher; demonstrate; descent; document; elucidate; embody; enlighten; epitomize; example; exemplify; exhibit; explain; explicate; expound; figure; foreshadow; illuminate; illustrate; image; impersonate; incarnate; instance; interpret; mirror; name; particularize; personate; personify; popularize; prefigure; project; quote; rationalize; realize; reflect; represent; shadow; show; simplify; solve; stand; symbolize; typify; unfold; unlock; unravel