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Example sentences for "veritable"

Lexicographically close words:
verifying; verily; verin; veris; verisimilitude; veritables; veritably; veritas; veritate; veritatem
  1. This hill, 750 feet high, appears a veritable mountain as it rises solitary in the midst of the great Plain of Champagne.

  2. Three succeeded in escaping, but, for the others, the retreat proved (as will be seen) a veritable torture.

  3. The subsoil of Notre-Dame became on this account a veritable ossuary.

  4. These graves, with their flags waving in the wind, give a veritable grandeur to this landscape of gentle undulations.

  5. But as the shape (of intelligible entities) possesses veritable (reality), their substrate is of the same nature.

  6. By the mere fact that the image is far from veritable "being," it is more infinite.

  7. But the wise hierophant, penetrating the mystery, may, when he has arrived thither, enjoy the veritable vision of what is in the sanctuary.

  8. Absolute and veritable Justice consists in the self-directed action of an unitary Principle, in which no parts can be distinguished.

  9. He was a veritable poet in sound, and he sought in every possible way to intensify characteristic expression.

  10. In "Les Huguenots" a veritable military band is introduced upon the stage; the band includes both reeds and brass--likewise piccolo flutes.

  11. The pipe, indeed, performed a placatory mission, for as the first rings of its smoke curled upward, it became a veritable pipe of peace.

  12. On a bare maidan overhanging a turbulent river a veritable city of white tents gleamed in the sunshine, all neatly ranged in streets and lanes.

  13. Port Royal, notwithstanding its situation at the end of a peninsula, had in old days a terrible reputation for unhealthiness, only surpassed by that of Fort Augusta across the bay, the latter a veritable charnel-house.

  14. Here was a veritable Celebrity come to my house to explain himself!

  15. Some possess a veritable genius for intimacy and will be making a dozen friends where I make one.

  16. In matters horticultural he was a veritable despot, sternly discouraging private enterprise of any sort.

  17. The Germantown Dunkers after the death of their patriarch, Alexander Mack, a veritable saint, sent no less than seventeen members.

  18. He talked of the Brews and the Brokenshires as if they had been Bourbons and Hohenzollerns, making me feel a veritable Libby Jaynes never to have heard of them.

  19. It will be what the word implies--a veritable New Birth.

  20. Trying to find the little we know amongst the lot that we feel is a veritable search for mignonette seeds in sand.

  21. It was a veritable cry of anguish, and as she spoke, she threw her arms forward upon the table beside which she was sitting, laid her face down on them, and burst into passionate sobs.

  22. I am not sure, either, that I should care to live with a veritable angel.

  23. At the end of it she exited with a quick, gliding run, arms horizontally outstretched, hands holding up the loose folds of her robe, a veritable winged Night itself rushing swiftly on toward dawn.

  24. The large room where the children were to play looked like a veritable kindergarten.

  25. What to them was perhaps a paradise of plant or animal life is to you, moving with your vast impedimenta, a veritable purgatory.

  26. Very devoted, but a "wooden" woman, a "veritable penitential brush.

  27. But wherever English is spoken, it has become a veritable sacred book and has pervaded English life and thought in the same way, that the Bible, Shakespeare and Bunyan have done.

  28. Right ahead of them the sea was all abristle with what, to his quick amazed glance, looked like the bones and ribs of multitudinous ships, the ruins of a veritable Armada.

  29. To the children no such transformation, no such veritable transfiguration of life as had been theirs would be possible.

  30. So they all went in a body, Rhoda being possibly afraid to go alone, and others afraid to stay behind, and there they saw his veritable self.

  31. In it, in it alone, has existed for a long time the veritable revolutionary conspiracy.

  32. It became a new "red specter," with a menacing and subversive program, that created a veritable furore of discussion in the newspapers and magazines of all countries.

  33. The veritable application of the anarchist principle would be the dissolution of the International, and this congress has precisely an opposite end, which is to reorganize the International.

  34. It is said that he was "the veritable soul of the revolution," and that he advised the insurrectionists, in order to prevent the Prussians from firing upon the barricades, to place in front of them the masterpieces from the art museum.

  35. In the midst of this veritable passion for destruction Marx and Engels found themselves.

  36. And the feudal duke or prince bought, fed, and cared for these "veritable and unique revolutionists," in order to have them ready for service in his work of robbery and murder.

  37. And the anarchists now found themselves in a veritable cul-de-sac.

  38. From its ruins came a veritable mine of hardware of good quality, yet rusted.

  39. They make a veritable school of building which once must have flourished the length and breadth of tidewater Virginia.

  40. It is a veritable Chinese shadow, and looks as if the horse had gone into mourning for itself.

  41. These monastic settlements were veritable garden cities, where most of our modern fruits, flowers and vegetables were cultivated; where flocks and herds were bred and all kinds of poultry, including pheasants and peacocks, reared.

  42. To the east and north-east stood the cloisters and canons' dwellings, a veritable city within a city, with four gates and fifty-one houses.

  43. Treacherous and bloody, Henry mingled grovelling piety with debauchery, and made of the court a veritable Alsatia, where paid assassins who stabbed from behind and mignons who struck to the face, were part of the train of every prince.

  44. Men and women of all stations and classes flocked to them, a veritable host of the Lord, "adorning the deserts with their holy perfection and solitudes by their purity and righteousness.

  45. He had a grand mien," says St. Simon, "and looked a veritable king of the bees.

  46. That was all--but sufficient to lure "Tough Geordie" Morpeth and his gallant comrades into a veritable death-trap.

  47. The slightest deviation from that position would invite a veritable tornado of shells into the vitals of any ship that disregarded that command.

  48. To supply the people of the country with news from the field, a veritable army of war correspondents was organized, a telegraphic service was organized and built up, plans were laid that developed into the Associated Press.

  49. There were two or three centres of conflict that became veritable whirlpools of excitement.

  50. It was a veritable Dance of Death by one who had felt its sting.

  51. We sat at the extreme left of the first balcony, facing the arch of our own and the balcony above us, veritable hanging gardens, brilliant as tulip beds.

  52. Our experts estimated the superficies of this valley at nearly sixty square miles; and all agreed that it was very fertile, and that its situation made it a veritable miracle of beauty.

  53. With us came 2,300 immigrants to Freeland; and if these find in the new home only one-half of what they promised themselves, Freeland must be a veritable paradise.


  54. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "veritable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aboveboard; absolute; actual; ascertained; attested; authentic; authenticated; authoritative; born; certain; certified; clean; clear; comprehensive; confirmed; congenital; consummate; determined; documentary; downright; effectual; egregious; established; exhaustive; factual; foursquare; gentry; genuine; historical; indubitable; intensive; omnibus; omnipresent; open; outright; perfect; pervasive; plain; plumb; positive; proved; pure; radical; real; regular; right; sheer; square; straight; substantial; substantiated; sweeping; thorough; total; true; truthful; ubiquitous; unconditional; undeniable; undoubted; universal; unmitigated; unqualified; unquestionable; unreserved; unrestricted; utter; validated; veracious; verified; veritable; very; wholesale