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Example sentences for "great consequence"

  • Cleanliness here is of great consequence; and for this purpose all culinary vessels should be made of iron, or of other metals well tinned.

  • To him it is of great consequence to get a native manganese containing as little iron oxide as possible; since in fact the colour or limpidity of his product will depend altogether upon that circumstance.

  • The proportions of the mixture are determined by experience, and are of great consequence to the success of the work.

  • The management of the furnaces is a matter of great consequence to the success of the process.

  • As it is of great consequence to cool the worts down to the fermenting pitch as fast as possible, various contrivances have been made for effecting this purpose.

  • I have something further to tell you; I have had a companion all the way home, a person who comes to wait on your honour, on business of great consequence, as he says.

  • Perhaps it is of no great consequence what it was in the composition which set her off into this nervous paroxysm.

  • Whether it was from him that Thoreau got the hint of the Walden cabin and the parched corn, or whether this idea was working in Thoreau's mind and was suggested to Emerson by him, is of no great consequence.

  • The history of the Chaldeans is of great consequence; and one would be glad to know their original.

  • It is a circumstance of great consequence, to which little attention has been paid.

  • Wark, Etall, Heaton, and Ford Castles, places of no great consequence, soon followed the example of Norham.

  • Even in time of peace, this station might be of great consequence to the nation; and in time of war, would render us masters of those seas.

  • His discoveries, however, were of great consequence, having made the interior country known to the Dutch, together with the nations or tribes by whom it is inhabited.

  • It braces the muscles of the arm, spreds the brest, opens the chest to giv the lungs play; an effect of great consequence to persons about the age of puberty.

  • The county court, thus composed of all the freeholders in the shire, waz a tribunal of great consequence, and inferior only to the witena-gemote, or national assembly.

  • At the distance of twenty days' journey to the south lies Plithana, and ten days' journey to the east of this is Tagara, both marts of great consequence, and the latter the capital of the country.

  • The city of Samos, as described by the ancients, seems to have been a place of great consequence.

  • He said to me afterwards, 'You must consider, Sir, a dinner here is a matter of great consequence.

  • He insisted that politeness was of great consequence in society.

  • When young, he thinks himself of great consequence, and every thing of importance.

  • He conceived the power which he advocated as residing in the House of great consequence, and to be used on important occasions only.

  • But here we are asked, Is it not of great consequence to the United States to employ those bold, skilful seamen in our service, that we may enjoy the commercial advantage they give us in peace, and their powerful assistance in war?

  • He said to me afterwards, 'You must consider, sir, a dinner here is a matter of great consequence.

  • This, even in time of peace, might be of great consequence to this nation; and, in time of war, would make us masters of those seas.

  • Your presence may be of great consequence.

  • I think he had better come in,' said Hettie; 'there is business of great consequence, which it is in his power to communicate.

  • There was no money in it, but there were papers of great consequence.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "great consequence" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    great armie; great deale; great depth; great difficulty; great empire; great energy; great flocks; great fortune; great hurry; great lawyer; great library; great liking; great moment; great party; great pile; great place; great poet; great repute; great sign; great stature; great storm; great train; greater numbers; greater share; greatly distinguished; industrial organization