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Example sentences for "quotation"

Lexicographically close words:
quot; quota; quotable; quotannis; quotas; quotations; quote; quoted; quotes; quoth
  1. I make no quotation from this familiar essay; it possesses too much unity to detach a paragraph or a sentence.

  2. The line of argument suggested by the foregoing quotation may be stated somewhat as follows: Early in the historical development of a race certain religious beliefs at once spring up.

  3. It is to the effect that people think that where there is no quotation there must be great originality.

  4. I have a misty memory that quotation is said to be a confession of inferiority," answered Adam.

  5. She listened with a bright face at first; then as the quotation was ended her face flushed, she turned her eyes away, and a grave look of sorrow crept over her lips.

  6. Title stamped in gilt on face of binding; on back title and quotation from Emerson's letter "I Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Career, R.

  7. Selected and Edited by William Michael Rossetti [quotation from Michelangelo].

  8. And Richardson farther confirms it by a quotation from Sir W.

  9. Page 134, single quotation mark changed to double after “the flower of all the world.

  10. We shall present the reader with a quotation taken from a comedy of his, published in Dodsley's collection of old plays, called A Bird in a Cage, p.

  11. We shall take a quotation from his version of the 104th psalm.

  12. A single quotation will be sufficient to illustrate the spirit prevailing upon this point.

  13. After that quotation from the letter to the poor fellow's fiancée there could be no more doubt but that it was murder.

  14. The whole quotation here is substantially from Zach.

  15. He defends his language by a quotation from their own Psaltery.

  16. At this time he was much pressed with work, and could ill afford to take up additional duties, as the following quotation from a letter to one of his friends shews: "The election to the Presidency of R.

  17. The following quotation relating to this Lecture is taken from a letter by Whewell to his wife (see Life of William Whewell by Mrs Stair Douglas): "I did not go to the Senate House yesterday evening.

  18. Another quotation from the writer's journal will show the temperament and spirit of the boys of K, who did their part in giving the Regiment its high standing in the army.

  19. The fact that Haku continues the quotation shows that he is under a sort of spell and makes it clear for the first time that his interlocutor is not an ordinary mortal.

  20. This, too, is the only aspect of them that I can here discuss; no other kind of criticism being possible without quotation of the actual words used by the poet.

  21. Quotation from the Preface to the Kokinshu ("Collection of Songs Ancient and Modern").

  22. Quotation from the Parable Chapter of the Hokkekyo.

  23. This quotation is from my memorandum made at the time of our conversation.

  24. Where a quotation consists of several paragraphs, quotation marks should be used at the beginning of each paragraph, but at the close of the last paragraph only.

  25. A quotation within a quotation is inclosed in single marks.

  26. Quotation marks are used before and after a passage quoted in the exact words of another.

  27. Matter quoted indirectly, or given only in substance, is not placed within quotation marks.

  28. The use of hyphenation and quotation marks marks in the book is a bit haphazard.

  29. If so, then this would be a long quotation containing five paragraphs, with only two quotation marks, other than embedded short quotations.

  30. Page 193: quotation mark with no mate removed from start of paragraph beginning with "I did not discuss further".

  31. Page 50: the quotation mark at the end of the paragraph that ends with "[.

  32. Some instances of the odd use of quotation marks have been retained.

  33. Page 216: missing quotation mark inserted for "a pity to have [.

  34. Page 200: quotation mark with no mate removed from "I recalled how I had been swindled [.

  35. Concluding this chapter, let us quote once more from the authority on the subject before mentioned, who writes anonymously in the pamphlet from which the quotation is taken.

  36. The following quotation from the Zohar is interesting, inasmuch as it shows the teaching on the subject in a few words.

  37. Read this little quotation carefully, and then determine which of the two views seems to fit in better with your highest spiritual conceptions: "A boy went to school.

  38. Touching upon the question of unextinguished desire, mentioned a moment ago, the following quotation from a writer on the subject, gives clearly and briefly the Reincarnationist argument regarding this point.

  39. With the seventh chapter begins again the quotation from the other document, "And the LORD [Jehovah] said unto Noah.

  40. It is a grotesque production; one does not find much spiritual nutriment in it, but Jude makes a quotation from it, in his epistle, as if he considered it Holy Scripture.

  41. But this," it is objected, "is not a quotation from the Old Testament.

  42. Cook," or to "Cook," though the table of contents in the volume from which the quotation was taken bears in capital letters the name of the writer of the commentary on this particular book.

  43. Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

  44. The quotation is from Francis Osborne's Advice to a Son.

  45. With a quotation from Hénault, Carlyle begins his French Revolution.

  46. Within a week he had his price revised, and gave me a satisfactory quotation and took my contract for the stack.

  47. The following quotation is significant of what promises to be the line of reasoning in future.

  48. But its functions, as set forth in the following quotation from the opinion, proclaimed the adoption of an entirely different policy concerning public control of rates from the one hitherto pursued.

  49. His quotation included the delivery of the brick and the erection of the stack at my plant.

  50. Its character may be indicated by a quotation from a railroad man.

  51. The necessary outcome, it is predicted, of the adoption of any such average or uniform classification would be the quotation of exceptional commodity rates wherever the uniform classification was at variance with local interests.

  52. A quotation was made me by the stack builder, whose office is in New York, and I remarked to him, 'That price is prohibitive; I cannot pay that price for that stack.


  53. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quotation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bid; case; citation; decline; demonstration; doubling; duplication; echo; example; excerpt; exemplification; extract; fluctuation; flurry; flutter; high; illustration; imitation; instance; item; low; net; par; parity; particular; passage; plagiarism; price; quotation; quote; rally; reappearance; rebirth; recurrence; reference; regurgitation; reincarnation; renewal; reproduction; resumption; return; selection; swing; text


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    quotation from; quotation marks; quotations from