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Example sentences for "senior"

Lexicographically close words:
senex; seng; senile; senility; senio; seniority; seniors; senis; senna; senner
  1. They are bound to a repetition of these covenants at every step of their progress, from writer to factor, from factor to junior merchant, and from junior merchant to senior merchant.

  2. Resolved, That Lieutenant-General John Clavering has thereby relinquished, resigned, surrendered, and vacated the office of Senior Counsellor of Fort William in Bengal.

  3. The junior counsel has been known not unfrequently to make a better argument than his senior fellow,--if, indeed, he did not make both their arguments.

  4. The good minister thought the best thing to do would be to call and talk over some of these matters with Brother Fairweather,--for so he would call him at times, especially if his senior deacon were not within earshot.

  5. Whatever his senior deacon might think about it, he said to himself that he shouldn't be surprised if he met the Doctor in heaven yet, inquiring anxiously after old Deacon Shearer.

  6. His senior deacon ventured to say to him that some of his people required to be reminded of the great fundamental doctrine of the worthlessness of all human efforts and motives.

  7. As she was to have on her marriage an enormous dowry, the First Consul had demanded her hand in marriage for his senior aide-de-camp.

  8. After a conference at Fairfax Courthouse with the three senior General officers, you announced it to be impracticable to give this army the strength which those officers considered necessary to enable it to assume the offensive.

  9. The senior partner was, for a time, in the field at head of his brigade; but affairs were so well managed, in the interval, by the Messrs.

  10. At the close of the year Tom passed out of the preparatory department and was admitted into the classical course, and Edward McLaren entered upon his senior year.

  11. He then called on Mr. Roe, the senior paying teller, to make a statement of what he knew of the matter.

  12. Indeed, the capital of the senior Viceroy was in every way the most reactionary spot in South America.

  13. In 1746 the capital suffered from a terrible catastrophe, being visited by an earthquake which shattered the senior city of the Continent, while at the same time a great tidal wave swept away the port of the capital, Callao.

  14. Peru constituted in the first place the sole Viceroyalty, and subsequently the senior Viceroyalty, of Spanish South America.

  15. Such dispositions had been made that, on the fourteenth of November, he was, during a few hours, the senior officer at Salisbury, and all the troops assembled there were subject to his authority.

  16. You know, however, that you already have as much power and control as any Senior in the Prime Chapter.

  17. Youngling, it is not for me to question Senior Valla's orders, but I admit I do no like this assignment.

  18. Kennard's injuries had been serious, but thanks to Medart's help not fatal, and Senior Physician Zanivar had said he'd be released later that week.

  19. Senior Adepts Valla and Kainor are already on board, as is the rest of my squad.

  20. The senior opened the door, and Perry, grinning, gestured Medart through first.

  21. I do not have a battle station, so I would remain here unless told otherwise by a senior officer.

  22. His orders came from Senior Valla; she told him Losinj was betraying the Order.

  23. The meeting began on schedule, in Briefing Room One, with Hobison introducing his senior officers.

  24. I did stalemate Senior Valla in our last practice session.

  25. It will be returned intact to your family for their Hall of Memories after your execution, as Senior Valla has ordered," he told her.

  26. The most dangerous are Thark, who is my problem, then Senior Adepts Valla and Kainor, who I am afraid will be yours and perhaps Colonel Greggson's, if his shield is as strong as I first thought.

  27. They took an intraship shuttle to Mess One, intended for senior officers and at this hour quite empty, unlike the always-busy Mess Three.

  28. My thanks to Senior Valla," Corina said, her voice shaky.

  29. The mess was starting to fill as the senior officers trickled in for breakfast.

  30. They had been friends ever since John Petersham, who was twelve years the senior of the two, first came to the house, a young fellow of eighteen, to assist his father, who had held the same post before him.

  31. About the middle of May, the senior partner, Alexander Macdonell, arrived from Qu'Appelle, accompanied by a band of Cree Indians.

  32. Charles Ross, the master of Fort McLoughlin, being senior to Finlayson, was for the time being placed in charge of the new venture.

  33. The senior partner, Macdonell, leaving Cameron at Fort Gibraltar, went westward to the Qu'Appelle River, to return in the spring and carry out the plan agreed on.

  34. The senior officer, Mr. Grahame, on his return from an absence, protested against the invasion.

  35. McKay and McDougall, as senior partners, disembarked, visited the village of the Chinooks, and were warmly welcomed by Comcomly, the chief of that tribe.

  36. I'm a senior and you juniors have got to do what I say.

  37. Miss Crompton ascertained that her two new pupils were no novices, then placed them in the senior class.

  38. It would be five or six weeks before she could hear the result of the Senior Oxford, so she was obliged to endure the suspense as best she could.

  39. The next prize-giving at Rodenhurst was a more than usually special occasion, for not only had four girls matriculated, but five had passed the Senior Oxford, two of them in the Honours Division.

  40. Miss Roscoe had not yet announced the names of those who were to take the Senior Oxford.

  41. Netta Goodwin was the Senior in command, and with Netta these Juniors were evidently having an excited altercation.

  42. Gwen, whether or not with the idea of the Senior Oxford in her head, had certainly been working hard.

  43. There was no age limit for the Senior Oxford, and though she was the youngest in her Form, her fifteenth birthday would fall on the first day of the examination.

  44. Now Winnie, as well as being Junior Mistress for the Fifth, was a member of a class for higher mathematics composed of a few Senior girls and taught by a professor who came weekly from the University at Radchester.

  45. She and Netta went into the Sixth Form room, the Senior French and German room, and even looked inside the teachers' room, finding nobody there.

  46. It was particularly awkward, because the Fifth Form was working for the Senior Oxford, and though only a few girls were actually to take the examination, the preparation was the same for everybody.

  47. Miss Roscoe read the examiners' report on the school, and the successes in the Matriculation and the Senior and Junior Oxfords.

  48. I entered your name as a candidate for the Senior Oxford, so you will, of course, take the examination.

  49. I want you all to know one of our finest senior girls, Lucia Coletti, from Milan, Italy.

  50. Senior complacency is another thing; but life has a great way of taking that out of all of us.

  51. All the ridiculous things that Dotty Bradshaw could think of were included in this freshman pledge, such as sweeping curtseys to the senior girls whenever they met them in the halls or on the street.

  52. It was a pity that Betty could not hear this sincere freshman tribute, but as it was she was likely to be spoiled enough, if Betty could be spoiled, before her senior year was over.

  53. But Carolyn said that she was a true prophet when Gwen Penrose, senior captain, before the championship game came down with the prevalent and disgustingly childish disease.

  54. Honestly, now that we've passed our life-saving tests, outside of our getting ready for senior examinations there isn't much left but pure fun.

  55. Our senior hockey team, of which I was the captain, WON!

  56. I hope we beat you," laughed Doris, "though it will be a sort of disgrace if this senior class doesn't win.

  57. One senior girl finally, to Betty's dismay, began to blunder and play badly, giving a big advantage to the sophomores, who needed no prompting in regard to taking it.

  58. Do you have any idea, Betty, that she will come back for her senior year?

  59. But she had helped get up the senior stunt, which won the prize, filling the senior girls with delight.

  60. If Betty should accept the probable opportunity of leading the team in hockey, the senior team should beat, she thought to herself!

  61. The first speaker had doffed the gown of the student in his senior year, greatly against the wishes of parents and friends, to don the livery of Uncle Sam.

  62. His opponent, the vicar, was Senior Wrangler at our Cambridge, the very highest University honor in England, and tutor to the present Lord Grey.

  63. It is delightful to hear him talk of you, and to feel that the sort of elder brotherhood which a senior partner must exercise in a firm is in such hands.

  64. It is probable, however, that in the present instance the three senior Councillors may have been influenced by the arguments of Baldwin and Rolph, who felt very strongly on the question at issue.

  65. James Baby, who was himself Inspector-General of Public Accounts and senior member of the Executive Council, and ex-Chief Justice Powell.

  66. In the spring of 1823 the firm of Mackenzie & Lesslie was dissolved, and for a few months thereafter the senior partner carried on business by himself.

  67. That is Judea, I am pretty sure; and the Senior Corridor is the Mediterranean.

  68. The seniors who did know shrugged their shoulders, and said it was a pity to have such things take the girls' minds off their parts--looking at everything from the point of view of Senior Dramatics.

  69. One bond of friendship between us from the beginning was, we each had a senior colleague a celebrated General of Civil War fame--Hawley, of Connecticut and Logan, of Illinois.

  70. He is now the senior United States District Judge of the seventh circuit, and I regard him as the ablest judge of them all.

  71. He regards his position as the senior Senator from Massachusetts, the successor of Webster and Sumner and a long line of noted men, as even a higher honor then the Presidency itself.

  72. They, in turn, brought certain of their junior and senior allies to the aid of the escortless.

  73. The senior sports committee having received the resignations of the two indignant juniors accepted them without question.

  74. Joan Myers had lagged behind her companions to talk to a senior who had just come off the train.

  75. The soph who had the fuss with Leslie Cairns is a senior this year.

  76. Don't pick up a soph, junior or senior unless you are sure that it will be to our advantage to do so.

  77. The senior try-out did not take place on Friday.

  78. While he took a deep interest in basket ball, he left all the arrangements of the games to the senior sports committee, preferring to allow them to do the managing.

  79. I know Anne Dawson and Loretta Kelly were invited to a senior blow-out at Alston Terrace.

  80. He apologised for it to the senior partner, who had found him unconscious, and promised that it should not occur again.

  81. And you know how it is when either the senior partner's got to go or the book-keeper.

  82. One morning he was summoned to the senior partner's private room.

  83. You'll find an excellent brand of air down in the senior study,' said Dallas, pointedly.

  84. On entering the senior study he found Galloway, an Upper Fourth member of the House, already in possession.


  85. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "senior" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    absolute; ace; aged; ancient; antecedent; anterior; anticipatory; ascendant; authoritarian; authoritative; authorized; autocratic; better; boss; cadet; champion; chief; commander; commanding; competent; consequential; considerable; controlling; dominant; doyen; earlier; early; elder; eminent; empowered; father; first; fore; foregoing; former; freshman; fugleman; genius; governing; great; head; imperative; important; influential; junior; laureate; leader; leading; master; midshipman; mighty; momentous; most; nonpareil; official; older; paragon; personage; potent; powerful; preceding; preeminent; prestigious; previous; prime; principal; prior; prodigy; prominent; puissant; ranking; ruler; ruling; senior; sire; star; substantial; superior; supreme; totalitarian; undergraduate; virtuoso; prior; prodigy; prominent; puissant; ranking; ruler; ruling; senior; sire; star; substantial; superior; supreme; totalitarian; undergraduate; virtuoso


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    senior officer; senior wrangler; senior year