It was significant that the parties to a suit always seemed to have agreed on what was right between man and man, and then to have sworn by their gods to observe the “right.
Finally, on a letter by Gabbu-ana-Ashur he is mentioned in a mostsignificant way.
Down below the stokers were at work like demons; a significant sentence in Captain Glossop's official report afterwards revealed how well they worked.
Australasia has the lowest death-rate of the world, a significant fact in the health record of a nation.
And yet how significant a fact is it in their life that the merchant does not, as a rule, give exact change over the counter!
Beyond comparison the most significant new figure that has made its way thither and cast its shadow on the people and the ground.
This abandonment of the old form of amphitheatre is thus a significant concession to the trotting-horse, and a sign that its speed has become the great pleasure of the fair.
On the contrary, he was eminently successful in discerning significant truths, but he subordinated objective representation to the requirements of a monumental style.
It is significant that the first attempt to establish a manufacturing industry in the American colonies was the building and equipping of a glass house.
Irrelevant details are omitted; only those which are significant expressing the artist's mood in contemplation of nature are recorded.
A period of purification was appointed after the birth of every child; but, by a very significant provision, it was twice as long in the case of a female as of a male child.
The Pagan, in his turn, pointed to what he deemed a not lesssignificant fact--the golden statues of Valour and of Fortune were melted down to pay the ransom to the conquerors.
And even comparing the Fathers with the most enlightened Pagan moralists in their treatment of this matter, we shall usually find one most significant difference.
Among the many curious habits of the Pagan Irish, one of the most significant was that of perpendicular burial.
They are not, however, on that account the less significant of the moral conceptions which the ascetic period had created.
The most eloquent and significant exhibits obtained were the cards on which the night's business of the inmate is punched.
It is significant that foreign students rarely speak of Oxford without commenting on its atmosphere; something in the air of the old town which, although intangible in its operation, is a positive factor in the educational result.
What is significant for the purpose of this article is an apparent disposition in many quarters to recede from the extreme position of entire exclusion of the student body and a tendency to move in the other direction.
It is doubly significant that that section of the country which produces chicken à la Maryland, corn bread, beaten biscuit, mint juleps, and New Orleans fizzes has furnished us with the best of such music as we can boast.
It is significant that our national drinks at present are mixed drinks, the ingredients of which are foreign.
It is significant that Wagner himself admitted that it was a singer [Madame Schroeder-Devrient] who revealed to him the possibilities of dramatic singing.
This was accompanied with that significant flourish with his pole which is called le moulinet, because the artist, holding it in the middle, brandishes the two ends in every direction like the sails of a windmill in motion.
In Paris, if one excepts the best papers, the Temps in particular, the significant news is elusive.
The terribly significant name has since passed to the great lobby of the Palais de Justice immediately above it, where it has less appropriateness.
Cafe Voltaire, was once the famous Cafe Procope, very significant in the eighteenth century, the resort of Voltaire and the Encyclopaedists, and later of the Revolutionaries.
Here he indicated with a significant gesture that Snake's men were to leave the cabin.
Without excitement or emotion or hurry, it yet seemed full and significant of things the words did not mean.
Riggs sought his blanket first, and the fact was significant that he lay down some distance from the spruce shelter which contained Bo Rayner.
It was significant that he excited comment among the other passengers.
Wilson did not look or intimate in any way that he would not leave the girl in camp with one or any or all of Anson's gang, but the truth was as significant as if he had shouted it.
The fact that the voluble Bo had nothing to say was significant to Helen, who was following, with the assistance of Roy.
Nothing beautiful, nothing significant had ever existed in that for him.
Las Vegas, with a savage and significant jerk of his arm, as if about to strike.
At this certain assurance of John's, too significant to be doubted, Dale's thought of Pine gave slow birth to a strange sensation, as if he had been dead and was vibrating back to life.
The idea that greeted him, beautiful as the sunrise, flashed in memory of Auchincloss's significant words, "Take your chance with the girl!
It was significant that he chose his heavier rifle, and, mounting, with a sharp call to Pedro, he rode off without another word to the girls.
This significant speech thrilled Helen with its assurance of hope, and made her blood curdle at the implied peril awaiting the hunter.
Wilson tapped his forehead with a significant finger.
The presence in their midst of the composer of the Eroica Symphony in these stirring times, was a significant fact, which was bound to be duly exploited by the Viennese.
It is significant that Wagner was as world-weary from middle-age on as was Beethoven.
The Lohengrin Prelude has the same idea, but it is developed to a greater extent, with a richer orchestration, the idea being carried to greater length, and rendered moresignificant in every way, as befits its dramatic character.
It is significant that Beethoven gives the German direction throughout in this Mass.
Mozart's pleasant, easy melodies; but it is the least significant and song-like of any, being formed after the manner of Italian canzonetti.
The example which he gives his father sufficiently justifies his complaints, and is as significant of the impertinence of the nobility towards artists as of Mozart's powerlessness to resent such behaviour:-- M.
This instance tends to throw a very sinister and significant flash on the way things are tending.
No one grudges the labourers their extra food and high wages; I am only taking note of a significant social circumstance.
All these things appeared in the public prints; but no public writer took any serious notice of a symptom which is as significant as any ever observed in the history of mankind.
After such a passage, in which every word is significant and eloquent, and is a great artist's reflection, everything seems pale.
He was shortly to exhibit a work which was still more significant of the thoughts with which he was busy.
This with a significant smile, that secured James for a parley.
As he pointed to this significant heading, a wild oath, worthy of one of Schiller's student robbers, burst from his lips, while he struck his heel down upon the floating wharf as though he would have crushed the plank beneath him.
Culture, so defined, may be conceived of in two ways; and in as much as their differences are highly significant in the sphere of education as elsewhere, we must now somewhat carefully consider them.
Introducing one of the most significant writers of France, himself a working man, in whom is incarnated the new self-consciousness of the worker's world.
The first organized effort to bring into English a series of the really significant figures in contemporary European literature.
But, no doubt, the most significant object in the office was the ticker.
There are a great number of derivative words, formed after the same manner as those in the Maláyu, by prefixing or annexing certain inseparable and otherwise non-significant particles.
Compound words, formed by the junction of two or more significant terms, are frequently met with, though they by no means form an extensive portion of the language.
This date would not be significant if 20 Pop were the last day of the month, but it would be very significant if it were the beginning day of the month, that is the beginning day of the New Year.
But he said mildly: "I see nothing especiallysignificant in Potts coming here, Penny.
Penny started to speak, but a significant glance from her companion served as a warning to remain silent.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "significant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
