Use artificial in a sentence
Sentences starting with artificial
- Artificial teeth have been discovered in the jaws of mummies. [10]
Sentences ending with artificial
- This principle has indeed been tried with hymenopterous insects; but when thus classed by their habits or instincts, the arrangement proved thoroughly artificial. [1]
- There is much fiction, and some of it, for various reasons, that we like and find interesting which is nevertheless insincere if not artificial. [4]
- He had passed beyond the artificial. [11]
- As I said before, this crisis is all artificial! [7]
Sentences containing artificial two or more times
- The fact is, I came away from England to get away from artificial forms--for artificial forms suit artificial people only--and here you've got them too. [5]
More example sentences with the word artificial in them
- Engineers are at work, now, turning the open roadstead into a spacious artificial harbor. [5]
- The countess looked with sad and sternly serious eyes at Prince Andrew when he talked to Natasha and timidly started some artificial conversation about trifles as soon as he looked her way. [2]
- Here was a wide natural corridor overhung with stalactites, and it led on into an artificial passage which inclined gradually upwards till it came into a mound above the level by which they entered. [11]
- The awkward, uncouth wickedness of remote country-places, where culture has died out after the first crop, is about as disagreeable as the ranker and richer vice of city life, forced by artificial heat and the juices of an overfed civilization. [4]
- Are there pages where he ceases from posing, ceases from admiring the placid flood and flow of his own dilutions, ceases from being artificial, and is for a time, long or short, recognizably sincere and in earnest? [5]
- What he held was that the artificial differences springing from the social union were disproportionate to the capacities springing from the original constitution; and that society, as now organized, tends to make the gulf wider between those who have privileges and those who have none. [4]
- And yet there was an artificial military courtesy (something like that existing in the feudal age, no doubt) which put the meeting of these two rival and mutually detested companies on a high plane of behavior. [4]
- All over the walls hung the little prints and engravings, framed in wreaths of moss and artificial flowers, or in elaborate square frames made of pasteboard. [4]
- We are getting used to ice frozen by artificial process in ordinary bottles --the only kind of ice they have here. [5]
- It is the unjustness of civilization that it sets up uniform and artificial standards for all persons. [4]
- The remedy for unhappy marriages, for all mistaken, selfish and artificial relationships in life is a preventive one. [9]
- Approximations, synopsized speeches, translated poems, artificial flowers and chromos all have a sort of value, but it is small. [5]
- All life appeared to him like magic-lantern pictures at which he had long been gazing by artificial light through a glass. [2]
- Prosperity is said to be more trying than adversity, a theory which most people are willing to accept without trial; but few men stand the drying out of the natural sap of their greenness in the artificial heat of city life. [4]
- We judged that they mistook this superb artificial day for the genuine article. [5]
- Not deriving from these means the relief which he sought, he bit off an immense mouthful from the bread and meat, and took a quick drink of the porter; by which artificial aids he choked himself and effected a diversion of the subject. [12]
- To be sure, there is a lovely little lake and a pretty artificial cascade, and the roads and walks are good; but the trees are all saplings, and nearly all the "wood" is a thicket of small stuff. [4]
- Why, it makes them feel embarrassed and artificial, of course; and in my opinion it is just as pathetic as it can be. [5]
- During a decade the old political parties, between which there was now little more than an artificial alignment, had been breaking up. [9]
- The quintessence of the honor was all there; there was no difference in values; in truth there was no difference present except an artificial one --clothes. [5]
- In the morning the fountain, which is, of course, artificial, refused to play, the rain in the night having washed in debris which clogged the conduit. [4]
- I surely have the equipment, a wide culture, and all of it real, none of it artificial, for I don't know anything about books. [5]
- The other was that vague and quite Russian feeling of contempt for everything conventional, artificial, and human--for everything the majority of men regard as the greatest good in the world. [2]
- And the consciousness that the insult was not yet avenged, that his rancor was still unspent, weighed on his heart and poisoned the artificial tranquillity which he managed to obtain in Turkey by means of restless, plodding, and rather vainglorious and ambitious activity. [2]
- There is plenty that is artificial, vulgarly conventional, in his play, plenty of imitation of the rustic that shows it is imitation, but he is the natural man. [4]
- The most discouraging symptom to me in our undoubted advance in the comforts and refinements of society is the facility with which men slip back into barbarism, if the artificial and external accidents of their lives are changed. [4]
- What communion had supplied the place of our artificial breeding to this man? [4]
- But there were so many ideas and theories, and it was so hard to be natural and artificial at the same time. [4]
- It spreads the, sensitive film on the artificial retina which looks upon us through the optician's lens for a few seconds, and fixes an image that will outlive its original. [6]
- It spreads the sensitive film on the artificial retina which looks upon us through the optician's lens for a few seconds, and fixes an image that will outlive its original. [3]
- And unfortunately the same note of nature suggested to Mr. Lyon the contrast of this artificial piece of loveliness with the domestic life of which he dreamed. [4]
- Both liked to recall how they had regarded each other when as yet they were nothing to one another; they felt themselves now quite different beings: then they were artificial, now natural and sincere. [2]
- People who only put on their best on rare and stated occasions step into an artificial feeling. [4]
- From this monstrous pomposity even the artificial rusticity of a Petit Trianon is a relief. [4]
- He must have picked up some wood-craft and a little botany from Thoreau, and a few chemical notions from his brother-in-law, Dr. Jackson, whose name is associated with the discovery of artificial anaesthesia. [6]
- It was laid out originally by the munificent American, Count Rumford, and is called English, I suppose, because it is not in the artificial Continental style. [4]
- His face took on the stupid artificial smile (which does not even attempt to hide its artificiality) of a man who is continually receiving many petitioners one after another. [2]
- The industry carried on at the moment at the Widow Sherrill's was the artificial drying of apples for the market. [4]
- The fruitful shores of your great river, larger even than the Euphrates, the temples with their painted columns, those huge artificial mountains, the Pyramids, where the ancient kings be buried--it must all be wonderfully beautiful. [10]
- On six feet of this superior article I fixed three artificial flies,--a simple brown hackle, a gray body with scarlet wings, and one of my own invention, which I thought would be new to the most experienced fly-catcher. [4]
- The great stone-chimney of the mansion-house was the centre from which all the artificial features of the scene appeared to flow. [6]
- The artificial heat of the big stoves in the rooms with the low ceilings only irritated her, and she felt herself growing more ample from lassitude of the flesh. [11]
- A huge altar of silver had been raised on an artificial hill. [10]
- The question is not between Mr. Olmsted's admirably arranged, but remote pleasure-ground and our Common, with its batrachian pool, but between his Excentric Park and our finest suburban scenery, between its artificial reservoirs and the broad natural sheet of Jamaica Pond. [6]
- It is, however, more probable that these colours have been intensified through artificial selection, as this species has been carefully bred in China from a remote period. [1]
- He publishes a monograph on the painters of Spain, artificial, confident, rhetorical, acute: as fascinating as a hide-and-seek drawing-room play-- he is so cleverly escaping from his ignorance and indiscretions all the while. [11]
- I do not mean to say that an artificial panic may not do considerable harm; that it has done such I do not deny. [7]
- They wanted to make the house positively gloomy for the sake of a little artificial moonlight on the painted towers and the canvas lakes. [4]
- They found a little package of opium sewed into the artificial part of Hong-Wo's queue, and they took that, and also they made him prisoner and handed him over to an officer, who marched him away. [5]
- A few hours later I stood with Miss Treherne and Mrs. Callendar in the graveyard beside the fortress-wall, placing wreaths of artificial flowers and one or two natural roses--a chance purchase from a shop at the port-- on the grave of the young journalist. [11]
- Below were artificial lakes, three in number, one above the other in banks of raised earth, and round about them rose the lofty green-foliaged shafts of poplar trees. [13]
- Did you ever know anybody who had succeeded half so well in piecing together and absorbing into a harmonized whole all the divergent, artificial elements that enter into the conventional world to-day? [9]
- Where intellectual life keeps pace with the accumulation of wealth, society is likely to be more natural, simpler, less tied to artificial rules, than where wealth runs ahead. [4]
- The human asserted itself, and came in, overwhelming his guards and his barriers like a strong flood in the spring-time of the year, breaking down all artificial contrivances. [4]
- The forest about it was untouched by axe, and unkilled by artificial flooding. [4]
- The obvious reply is that equal rights and a fair chance are not possible without equality of condition, and that property and the whole artificial constitution of society necessitate inequality of condition. [4]
- They say it is precisely the contrast of rough nature with highly artificial cultivation which forms one of their main characteristics. [14]
- Then, his artificial integuments, with their true skin of solid stuffs, their cuticle of lighter tissues, and their variously-tinted pigments. [6]
- He grew hot in thinking of it, indignant at his relations and the whole artificial framework of things. [4]
- What we seek in him are the primal and original traits, unmixed with the sophistications of society, and unimpaired by the refinements of an artificial culture. [4]
- This age, which imitates everything, even to the virtues of our ancestors, has invented a fireplace, with artificial, iron, or composition logs in it, hacked and painted, in which gas is burned, so that it has the appearance of a wood-fire. [4]
- Everywhere I find hoary evidences of artificial manipulation of climates in bygone times. [5]
- Her letters to him, far from giving her any comfort, seemed to her a wearisome and artificial obligation. [2]
- And this would help him to understand why constructing artificial flowers or performing on a tread-mill is work, while rolling ten-pins or climbing Mont Blanc is only amusement. [5]
- Soft music was heard from these artificial heavens, and in the stratum of air immediately beneath, the blare of war-trumpets and battle-cries were heard. [10]
- We seem to have expected that we could accomplish suddenly and by artificial Contrivances a development which historically has always taken a long time. [4]
- And, as it happened, our serious conference was carried on with an air of easy gossip, combined with a not artificial interest in all we saw. [11]
- They admire long hair, and use artificial means to make it appear abundant; they admire also a beard, though themselves very scantily provided. [1]
- His artificial curls had been laid aside, and the bald, smooth head formed a strange contrast to the furrowed countenance, giving an appearance of unusual height to the forehead, generally so very low among the Egyptians. [10]
- But before man had any artificial dwelling the same contrivance of mixing fibrous threads with a cohesive substance had been employed in the jointed fabric of his own spinal column. [6]
- It's made to give artificial people a society basis on a little money--too much money, of course, for what they get. [8]
- A short distance from the lake were a great number of artificial mounds, three of which were especially noticeable from their size and height. [10]
- We are looking forward to the synthesis of new organic compounds; our artificial madder is already in the market, and the indigo-raisers are now fearing that their crop will be supplanted by the manufactured article. [3]
- I almost long for some of the uniform serenity you describe in Mrs. ----'s disposition; or, at least, I would fain have her power of self- control and concealment; but I would not take her artificial habits and ideas along with her composure. [14]
- Perhaps the love for made flies is an artificial taste and has to be cultivated. [4]
- He marveled to find that this final change was not merely intellectual, it had invaded his feeling; and he also marveled to note that this feeling seemed a good deal less artificial than any he had entertained in his system for a long time. [5]
- A personal, human feeling for a brief moment got the better of the artificial phantasm of life he had served so long. [2]
- The Empress's thin face looked particularly small under the mass of natural and artificial adornment which towered above her brow. [10]
- Necessarily we started equipped with their perfect and blemishless morals; now we are wholly destitute; we have no real, morals, but only artificial ones--morals created and preserved by the forced suppression of natural and hellish instincts. [5]
- Moonlight talk drifted easily into talk about artificial methods of dispelling darkness. [5]
- After the public duty, the public attitudinizing, after assisting at the artificial comedy and tragedy which imitate life under a mask, and suggest without satisfying, comes the actual experience. [4]
- Philistinism and shoddy do not like the woods, unless it becomes fashionable to do so; and then, as speedily as possible, they introduce their artificial luxuries, and reduce the life in the wilderness to the vulgarity of a well-fed picnic. [4]
- It would be difficult to find a pleasanter traveling party one that shook off more readily the artificial restraints of Puritanic strictness, and took the world with good-natured allowance. [5]
- She has a dark complexion naturally, and this effect is heightened by artificial aids which cost her nothing. [5]
- Why should artificial conventions defeat it? [4]
- I am only commenting on facts; but one of them is that it is the most difficult thing in the world to reconcile religious association with the real or artificial claims of social life. [4]
- What a beautiful civilization ours is, supposed to be growing in intelligence and simplicity, and yet voluntarily taking upon itself this artificial burden in an already overtaxed life! [4]
- I do it, but it's artificial, it ain't the real thing. [11]
- The garden had been laid out on an artificial hill, which overlooked the inundated plain. [10]
- But nothing can be more artificial than the behavior of people together who rarely "dress up. [4]
- And he fell back into that artificial realm of imaginary greatness, and again--as a horse walking a treadmill thinks it is doing something for itself--he submissively fulfilled the cruel, sad, gloomy, and inhuman role predestined for him. [2]
- The summer dwellers at the Pier talk a good deal about liking it better than Newport; it is less artificial and more restful. [4]
- But as soon as the prince had gone her face resumed its former cold, artificial expression. [2]
- Nor is she artificial, except as society requires her to be, and if she regards the conventions of her own set as the most important things in life, therein she does not differ from hosts of excellent wives and mothers. [4]
- They have few artificial wants, and no uneasy expectation--bred by the reading of books and newspapers--that anything is going to happen in the world, or that any change is possible. [4]
- If all the artificial round of calls and cards should tumble down, what valuable thing would be lost out of anybody's life? [4]
- He needed no artificial heat to warm his pen and kindle his ardor when he sat down to write to Ruth. [5]
- He felt the artificial element, the quality of disguise. [11]
- All these appliances are to shield the sensibility from disagreeable contacts, and to soothe it by varied natural and artificial influences. [6]
- The dreaming faculties are always the dangerous ones, because their mode of action can be imitated by artificial excitement; the reasoning ones are safe, because they imply continued voluntary effort. [6]
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