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Example sentences for "relation"

Lexicographically close words:
relateth; relatif; relatifs; relating; relatio; relational; relatione; relations; relationship; relationships
  1. The distinctive feature of network mentioned in relation to bags applies to these also, but not that of colouring.

  2. Failing such male issue the office passes to a collateral relation of the late chief on his father's side (e.

  3. The relation of American democracy to the systems which have preceded it forms the latest proof of these contentions.

  4. For the relation of the poems to J's narrative, see below.

  5. The various tissues affected are examined microscopically and cultures made from them; in this way the structural changes and the relation of bacteria to them can be determined.

  6. For the relation of ballad to epic there is no better guide than Comparetti's The Kalewala, of which there is an English translation.

  7. This immense and varied total stands to its author in a somewhat different relation from that of any other work to any other writer.

  8. It is to be noted that there is no fixed relation between toxin production and bacterial multiplication in the body, some of the organisms most active as toxin producers having comparatively little power of invading the tissues.

  9. The methods employed in studying the relation of bacteria to disease are in principle comparatively simple, but considerable experience and great care are necessary in applying them and in interpreting results.

  10. It was the religious capital of all Islam, and the political capital of the greater part of it, at a time when Islam bore the same relation to civilization which Christendom does to-day.

  11. The circumstances in which he went mark the peculiarly favoured position which he held in relation to the King and the Lord High Admiral.

  12. It is probable that the increase in Baker's annuity was intended to mark his superior position in relation to Pett.

  13. When this contrivance is brought into use upon any manual and when no keys upon that manual are being played, the swell shutters assume a position slightly more open than normal in relation to the position of the swell pedal.

  14. Directly any key upon the manual in question is depressed, the swell shutters again resume their normal position in relation to the swell pedal.

  15. There is a solitary child among the passengers - a little boy of seven years old who has no relation there; and when the first party is moving away he cries after some member of it who has been kind to him.

  16. The best proportions of the various constituents have been ascertained by glass-makers, after long experience; but the relation of these proportions to each other, from a chemical point of view, is not easy to make out.

  17. It is three or four and twenty years since I saw the book; yet I have, as far as my memory will admit, given you the relation of the matter.

  18. But to let that pass, it is a psalm that gives us a relation of the penman's praying frame, and of an exhortation to Israel to hope in God.

  19. O there are but few Obadiahs in the world, I mean among the saints on earth: see the whole relation of him (1 Kings 18).

  20. A Relation of the Fearful Estate of Francis Spira.

  21. Suppose a child doth grievously transgress against and offend his father, is the relation between them therefore dissolved?

  22. He adds, 'I could tell you of another, that came to me with a like relation concerning herself, and the robbing of her mistress.

  23. In all this relation here is not aught that can justify the jailer.

  24. Again, suppose the father should scourge and chasten the son for such offence, is the relation between them therefore dissolved?

  25. No, the relation that they stand in to the world, together with those many flesh-pleasing accommodations with which they are surrounded, would never yet suffer such a desire to enter into their hearts.

  26. Any other reasonable relation between their influences may be substituted for the purpose of experiment, but the ultimate conclusion will be much the same.

  27. In the mean time, pray, where lies the relation betwixt the "Tragedy of the Duke of Guise," and the charter of London?

  28. Care was besides taken to have this relation attested by Sir Joseph Jordan, a justice of peace, and the rector of Hatfield, Dr Lee, who was one of the king's chaplains.

  29. I accept and repeat Grundtvig's views as to the relation of the three forms of the story.

  30. I must avow myself to be very much in the dark as to the exact relation of stem and burden.

  31. This preliminary may be something that is essential for the execution of the other, as in the German ballads, or equally well something that has no kind of relation to the original requisition, as in the English ballads.

  32. Well then, what relation am I to my cousin Robert?

  33. She rose to leave him with a woman’s magnificent indifference when her heart speaks out, casting all considerations, all details, all questions of future relation to the winds, or to the accident of a chance meeting at some indefinite date.

  34. At the close of the meeting I picked up the Book of Mormon, which they had left lying on the table, and began to read the preface in relation to Martin Harris losing 116 pages of the original manuscript.

  35. The relation of the cost of raw material and the selling price of the finished product.

  36. Porter An insight into the methods used in making estimates, and their relation to selling.

  37. Mother Gertrude looked at her compassionately enough, but with the strange remoteness induced by the long cultivation of an absolutely impersonal relation towards humanity.

  38. The sense of closer companionship--of a more intimate spiritual union expressed, though never explicitly so in words, in her relation with the Superior, was unutterably precious to Alex.

  39. The material side of her life as a pensionnaire at the Liege convent made very little impression upon her, excepting in relation to the emotional aspect, of which she was never unaware.

  40. We know of no world except in relation to mankind; and we wish for no Art that does not bear the mark of this relation.

  41. If I know my relation to myself and the outer world, I call it truth.

  42. The hazards for the second shot should be so placed and designed as to give a well-placed tee shot every advantage--in other words, should make a man play his first stroke in relation to the second shot.

  43. True, golf is good for that; but the unsophisticated who imagine that this is the full relation between travel and the game, and that this is the function of the courses everywhere, suffer from a poor delusion, which is expensive.

  44. The relation of life to the earth's area is a fundamental question of bio-geography.

  45. Hence to their bordering plains they sustain the relation of young undeveloped lands, so that life in their piedmont belts tends to show for a long time all the characteristics of a new colonial frontier.

  46. Semple, Development of the Hanse Towns in Relation to their Geographic Environment, Bulletin Amer.

  47. Sidenote: Unity of the human species in the relation to the earth.

  48. Sidenote: Relation of rivers to railroads in recent colonial lands.

  49. The name of the Telegraph Plateau of the North Atlantic, crossed by three cables, points to the relation between these and submarine relief.

  50. The nearest relation among the Romans closed the eyes and mouth of the deceased, after putting money into the mouth for the ferryman who was to take the soul of the dead over the lake it had to cross.

  51. When persons were at the point of death, their nearest relation present endeavoured to catch the expiring breath with their mouth, as they believed the soul or living principle went out by the mouth.

  52. As a language of flowers is known among botanists, so there is a significance in relation to gems, understood by the credulous.

  53. Next post brought a letter informing him that a near relation in London had died just at the time the knocking alarmed him and his family, for they too heard the startling sounds.

  54. A wonderful relation is given in support of the belief of magicians having power over spirits.

  55. Say not "I am He"; but worship Hari continually in the relation of adorer and adored; by this thou mayst attain the happy journey, but otherwise thou wilt assuredly fall.

  56. The problem of "agreement and independence" in the relation of Part II to Part I is admirably solved; it is a masterly model of well-matched Unity and Variety, throughout.

  57. Turpin's" chronicle, in the eleventh century, shows the vast extension of the legend, which now loses all but the vaguest relation to the actual events of history and the real characteristics of Charles.

  58. The regrets of Charlemagne are probably in close relation to the wars of Henry IV.

  59. It was the outward sign that her malicious fancy chose of the new state of feeling and the new relation between them which had emerged from the tempest of emotion that Foster's congratulatory note had thrown her into.

  60. In every relation of life the man is great.

  61. She showed him very marked favour that evening, and in his company contrived to forget entirely the puzzle of Quisanté and his moments, and the possible relation of those moments to the limits about which her companion was so decisive.

  62. The subject of blood-pressure in relation to pregnancy will be fully dealt with in the next chapter--in connection with toxemia, eclampsia, etc.

  63. A public health official some time ago epitomized some of the uses of birth registration as follows: There is hardly a relation in life from the cradle to the grave in which such a record may not prove to be of the greatest value.

  64. Well, as it happens, the person in question is a near relation of mine too--the nearest male relation of my own family in the world.

  65. If it were a relation of yours, it might be rather awkward, might it not?

  66. Thank you," said Gerald, as fervently as if he had been seeking the goodwill of a new relation for a young, inexperienced sister.

  67. I knew Miss Eyrecourt was her cousin, but I didn't know she was any relation of yours, though I have heard Mrs Dalrymple talk of you.

  68. I am not bound never to say anything about you that you would not like to hear-- and to a near relation of my own too!

  69. Oh yes, I know, but I mean it must be a relation of his who is seriously ill.


  70. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "relation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    absorption; accord; account; addition; adjunct; affairs; affiliation; affinity; allegory; alliance; analogy; ancestry; approximation; association; balancing; bearing; blood; bond; brother; brotherhood; capacity; character; closeness; coloring; combination; comparison; condition; confrontation; connection; connotation; consanguinity; consequence; contact; contiguity; contrariety; contrast; correlation; dealings; deduction; disjunction; drift; effect; embarrassment; engagement; entanglement; essence; extension; filiation; force; fraternity; gist; history; homology; idea; impact; implication; import; inclusion; intercourse; intimacy; involution; junction; kin; kindred; kinship; liaison; link; linkage; matching; maternity; metaphor; motherhood; narration; narrative; nearness; offshoot; opposing; opposition; overtone; parallelism; part; paternity; pertinence; pith; point; position; propinquity; proportion; proximity; purport; quality; rapport; recital; recounting; reference; regard; rehearsal; relation; relations; relationship; relative; relevance; respect; review; role; scope; sense; significance; signification; similarity; simile; similitude; sisterhood; spirit; status; substance; sum; sympathy; telling; tenor; tie; undertone; union; value


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    relation between; relations between; relations with