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Example sentences for "react"

Lexicographically close words:
reachest; reacheth; reaching; reacht; reacquired; reactance; reactant; reacted; reacting; reaction
  1. He swore, but a Med Ship man would not react to such symptoms as a non-medically-trained man would have done.

  2. Its children were trained to react explosively when the word blueskin was uttered in their hearing, and its adults tended to say it when anything causing uneasiness entered their minds.

  3. But if I'd been hungry for a couple of years, and was despised to boot by the people who kept me hungry, I suppose I might react the same way.

  4. It was instinct that made Calhoun react as he did.

  5. The acid soaked robe had stopped dripping but there was enough left to react with subdued violence if she came into contact with the wrong substance.

  6. It was something like to death to change drastically from a thinking reasoning person to someone who could react only to one stimulus.

  7. Where a competing firm enters the field with a cheap quality of goods that would react against the trade, it is sometimes policy to put the facts before the prospective buyers.

  8. These are the parts that respond with special ease to the appropriate stimuli, that is, react to them with an increasingly smaller expenditure of energy.

  9. But imagine a child so lifeless as to react in no way to the teacher's first appeals, and how can you possibly take the first step in his education?

  10. But, if the objects be not forthcoming then, the impulse may die out before a habit is formed; and later it may be hard to teach the creature to react appropriately in those directions.

  11. They either do not react or do not react nobly.

  12. It was the age of Spain's greatest power and the slow decline and subsequent decrepitude that soon afflicted the parent state could not fail to react upon the colony.

  13. Internally there were changes which were to react on the Spanish colonial dominions, wherefore a correspondingly greater space must be accorded peninsula history than directly to the wars in Europe.

  14. Finally, as has happened so many times in the history of other nations, the very fact of the establishment of a great empire was bound to react both materially and psychologically to produce an unwonted expansion intellectually.

  15. But why did it not react on Louis XIV or on Louis XV--why should it react just on Louis XVI?

  16. That they will react on the glands of a living creature and produce immortality.

  17. Would reach into the outer fringes of the Earth's atmosphere where the cosmic rays would envelop it, would react upon the animals inside it.

  18. He felt new muscles react as he landed on the ground, and knew that there was a great strength in them.

  19. For what manner of men such as the other part of its mind showed would react in a friendly fashion?

  20. If the pupil reacts very slightly to the light, it is called torpid: if it does not react at all, it is called rigid.

  21. During the seizure, the pupil does not react (this cannot be simulated) or there is excessive mydriasis.

  22. It will be more appropriate to discuss the inferiority of the Negro when he has failed to react to the most comprehensive, intelligent, and consistent program which we are able to draw up.

  23. But because experience has shown that some persons will seek to benefit themselves in ways that react to the injury of the community, it becomes necessary for law to adjust private and public interests.

  24. This condition cannot but react unfavorably upon the nervous system.

  25. Cities should maintain girls' high schools, taught by women teachers, for all girls upon whom the stress and strain of competition with normal individuals would react unfavorably.

  26. Here he may find freedom for the development of his individuality and be able to increase his power to react on his environment, enabling him to find profit, pleasure and culture in the various activities of life.

  27. Mr. Goldsbury remarks, "the importance of our understanding, the wide range of the functions of our senses, the influence of our surroundings and the manner in which they react on our minds.

  28. All the world feels depressed on rainy days and in dark, cloudy weather, but suicides react well, as a rule, against this physical depression, yet allow their mental depression to get the better of them on the finest days of the year.

  29. Many will be overwhelmed and will react slowly with excessive caution and this will upset the other aggressive drivers.

  30. The aggressivity of the environment makes most drivers better or more capable to react correctly to impredictable situations, including others mistakes.

  31. The average European, whatever his nationality, still tended to react instinctively against such practices.

  32. On the other hand, the whites and near-whites instinctively react against Japanese advances.

  33. Anything which can receive a stimulus, that can react to a stimulus and retains memory of a stimulus must be called an intelligent, conscious entity.

  34. A shock to the head and loss of blood might easily react on the optic nerve.

  35. Does the Ozymandian silence on the box react upon the rank and file of the expedition, or is it the hypnotic effect of hoof-monotony?

  36. To the economic factors that react unfavourably upon a difficult political situation must be added the growth of labour troubles, which Extremist agitators know how to exploit to the utmost even when they do not actually foment them.

  37. Babies react rapidly to cool sponging; for a baby use tepid water, sponge for five minutes only, and watch the child closely during the bath.

  38. Moreover, they react quickly both to favorable and to unfavorable surroundings.

  39. They react on water like many anhydrides of the acids, with the evolution of heat and liberation of hydrochloric acid, forming acid hydrates.

  40. The molecules of a substance A, which is not able to react on a substance B below a temperature t, by being heated from a somewhat lower temperature to t, undergoes that change which had to be arrived at for the formation of A B.

  41. It should be observed that the reaction between phosphorus, iodine and water must be carried out in the above proportions and with caution, as they may react with explosion.

  42. Spring, the Belgian chemist, has shown that finely powdered solids which do not react on each other at the ordinary temperature may do so under an increased pressure.


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