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Example sentences for "tangible"

Lexicographically close words:
tangere; tangerine; tangerines; tangi; tangibility; tangibly; tangle; tangled; tangles; tangling
  1. For even such rudiments of modern musical grammar as are readily mastered in our day by a mere child, were far beyond the perspective of the early scholastic monks, who arrived at a few tangible results only by the most circuitous methods.

  2. Wagner above all others defined the true mission of German national art and guided her to a tangible realization of that mission.

  3. Nevertheless, several tangible results are to be noted.

  4. Spirit the tangible Our Master declared that his material body was not 352:6 spirit, evidently considering it a mortal and material be- lief of flesh and bones, whereas the Jews took a diametrically opposite view.

  5. That is to say, an appearance of the immaterial was followed by a tangible manifestation--there was nothing imaginary about that.

  6. Then the shade's appeal for "Christian charity," and the acceptance of it in the tangible form of coin of the realm!

  7. What so many people admire is not greatness, but the realisation of greatness and its tangible rewards.

  8. Shaping fantastic dreams of heartless OENE, With aching hands into a tangible beauty.

  9. The knees slightly bent forward, the strained ligaments, showed partial unsoundness, yet was there no tangible ‘break down.

  10. As the letter disclosed this positive invitation and plan of emigration which, whether possible or impossible, was now brought into tangible form, the clasp in which lay the father’s hand and the daughter’s slightly tightened.

  11. In fact in the Gara Mountains the fear of the jinni, and the skill of certain magicians in keeping them friendly, appear to constitute the only tangible forms of religion.

  12. The large number of pupils to be dealt with, and the tendency of parents and school authorities to demand speedy and tangible evidence of progress, conspire to give it currency.

  13. Without meaning, things are nothing but blind stimuli or chance sources of pleasure and pain; and since meanings are not themselves tangible things, they must be anchored by attachment to some physical existence.

  14. But it was no strong, living, tangible thing.

  15. It was the one tangible link between me, reality, and hard facts, and the misty yet beloved life I had quitted.

  16. The dreariness and dreadfulness of knowledge to the immature mind is because it represents itself as a mass of dry facts to be mastered without having any visible or tangible connection with the boy's own experience.

  17. It certainly produced a lot of cheerful effort; my story was simple enough, description as brief and vivid as I could make it, and brisk tangible incidents.

  18. The worst of it all is that we look so much to tangible results.

  19. True, matter may appear in various forms: the tangible coal may escape through the chimneys as an intangible gas; water may vanish into vapor; gold may unite with acids to form compounds entirely unlike gold.

  20. On the other hand, Joseph Smith did not teach that the kind of tangible matter, which impresses our mortal senses, is the kind of matter which is associated with heavenly beings.

  21. All our most solid and tangible realities are but as lies that we have told too often henceforth to question them.

  22. The ultimate triumph, therefore, of truth rests on a very tangible basis--much more so than when it is made to depend upon the will of an unseen and unknowable agency.

  23. The sole tangible asset of the campaign was the possession of Harfleur, the gate of Normandy, a second Calais in its advantages when future invasions were taken in hand.

  24. Els received the caress with surprise for, though both girls loved each other tenderly, they, like most sisters, rarely expressed it by tangible proofs of tenderness.

  25. That very day Heinz had received a tangible proof of the imperial favour, on account of which he had gone to the dance in an extremely cheerful mood.

  26. The demon was thereby enabled to escape, and he never actually appeared in a tangible form again, although he frequently communicated, by means of signs and omens, with those whom he wished to involve in his sinister designs.

  27. The typical town artisan has no religion and no superstitions: he has no ideals beyond the visible and tangible world of the senses.

  28. The ability to come into contact with the finer things, tangible or intangible, is simply a capacity of response finer than normal.

  29. By chose in possession is meant a tangible piece of personal property as distinguished from a mere right.

  30. If the property pledged is tangible personal property, the pledgee must use the care of an ordinarily prudent man in the preservation and protection of it.

  31. A promissory note, a certificate of stock, or a bond which is an evidence of something tangible or the right to obtain something tangible, is the subject of a pledge, as well as furniture, jewelry and other tangible personal property.

  32. This includes personal property having a tangible existence, as well as that which is intangible.

  33. These rights are sometimes called choses in action, while tangible articles of personal property, such as watches, chairs and horses are called choses in possession.

  34. The total absence of finger prints and other tangible clews strongly suggested that the deed could have been perpetrated only by a criminal in the Phantom's class.

  35. He stood face to face with a peril of a tangible and definite kind.

  36. You have not the slightest tangible ground of offence against young Inglesant," they told him, "and you have every cause to keep this affair quiet, out of which you have not emerged with any great triumph.

  37. Still, there was considerable of the tangible present about her.

  38. There will be no past there, but a present more tangible than this, which is ever slipping from us, and a future far brighter and more certain than any that earth can afford.

  39. The blackness of the night had become a tangible thing.


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