Use audience in a sentence
Sentences ending with audience
- Presently the King would arrive, solitary and alone, and the players would begin at the beginning and do the entire opera over again with only that one individual in the vast solemn theater for audience. [5]
- In particular, the words "I will come back to dinner," evidently displeased both reader and audience. [2]
- I must have wished to see Krebs, to hear him speak; to observe, perhaps, the effect on the audience. [9]
- Among the courtiers whom she had known so well in Ratisbon not one vouchsafed her anything more than a passing greeting; and the Queen of Hungary, to whom she would gladly have poured out her heart, had refused her repeated entreaties for an audience. [10]
- All these things were repeatedly interrupted by the enthusiastic shouts of the audience. [2]
- But after it was over, the adjutant he had seen the previous day ceremoniously informed Bolkonski that the Emperor desired to give him an audience. [2]
- One of these was Curie, now of London, whose works are on the counters of some of our bookstores, and probably in the hands of some of my audience. [3]
- These things are very annoying to the audience. [5]
- Ebn Ezra Bey turned a grave face upon the audience. [11]
- I mean to try that on my dusky audience. [5]
Short sentences using audience
- That immensely enlarges the audience. [5]
- The audience was standing. [11]
- The King was sole audience. [5]
- The audience was mostly German. [9]
- The audience was breathless. [11]
- His audience laughed and shouted. [5]
Sentences containing audience two or more times
- It is, perhaps, too much to say that all the American novel needs for its development is an audience, but it is safe to say that an audience would greatly assist it. [4]
- He studied every tone and every gesture, and he forecast the result with the real audience from its result with that imagined audience. [5]
- A man pretends to be my brother and my lecture agent--gathers a great audience together in a city more than a thousand miles from here, and then pockets the money and elopes, leaving the audience to wait for the imaginary lecturer! [5]
- When a part of the audience sat on the stage, and gentlemen lounged or reeled across it in the midst of a play, to speak to acquaintances in the audience, the illusion could not have been very strong. [4]
- I do that kind of speech (I mean an offhand speech), and do it well, and make no mistake in such a way to deceive the audience completely and make that audience believe it is an impromptu speech--that is art. [5]
- Has the audience been creating a theatre to suit its taste, or have the managers been educating an audience? [4]
More example sentences with the word audience in them
- Think of that, with a French audience all stirred up and ready. [5]
- I have sometimes wished I knew the exact site of Thebes, so that I could rise in the audience, and stop that question, at any rate. [4]
- Another witness, upon whose appearance the audience tittered audibly, was Dave Skinner, boss of Mercer. [9]
- I confess that while I sat there, in an audience so keenly in sympathy with the play--almost a part of it, one might say--I doubted if I understood your people as well as I thought I did when I had been here a week only. [4]
- Every orator knows when he is beating the air, even when his audience is quiet and apparently attentive. [11]
- In the audience were Mrs. Eschelle and her daughter. [4]
- The same men were in my audience last night, but they saw that he was there. [5]
- The public gardens were filled by afternoon, and whoever wanted to address the people had no need to call an audience together. [10]
- I think, as we grow older, we decrease as individuals, and as if in an immense audience who hear stirring music, none essays to offer a new stave, but we only join emphatically in the chorus. [6]
- He knows that we are before an audience having strong sympathies southward, by relationship, place of birth, and so on. [7]
- The crowd made way for her, and she came smiling and bowing through the narrow human lane, with Betsy Hale, as escort and support, smiling and bowing in her wake, the audience breaking into welcoming cheers as the old favorites filed along. [5]
- She was to watch me intently, and whenever I glanced toward her she was going to deliver a gubernatorial laugh that would lead the whole audience into applause. [5]
- Instantly the audience was on its feet, and a rush began for the door. [5]
- No special haste was needful, and, as he loved good wine and did not lack gifts from those who desired an audience with his master, he went first to the English Greeting, where the travelling clergy lodged and often deigned to accost him. [10]
- Very kind that was in the bishop, and very proud his medical audience must have felt. [6]
- Once more there was a terrible noise and clatter among the audience, and with rapturous faces everyone began shouting: "Duport! [2]
- Once more there was a full audience on deck to listen to the sailors' chorus as they got the anchor up, and to wave an adieu to the land as we sped away from Naples. [5]
- Instead of the usual formal audience of 15 minutes, we staid 4 hours and were made a good deal more at home than we could have been in a New York drawing-room. [5]
- By-and-by it lighted up, and the audience began to arrive. [5]
- This audience took up several hours. [10]
- The vast audience under the canopy directed its eyes to a man on the platform, who was violently gesticulating and shouting at the top of his voice. [4]
- That was an uncomfortable hour; for there was a big audience on the hurricane deck. [5]
- I have been unable at any time to find a man in an audience who would declare that he had ever known of anybody saying so five years ago. [7]
- Another time they tried to go at yellocution; but they didn't yellocute long till the audience got up and give them a solid good cussing, and made them skip out. [5]
- He got through tolerably well; but his audience broke down early, and stayed in that condition to the end. [5]
- But he refuses to understand that I said so, and he wants this audience to understand that I did not say so. [7]
- Now, I appeal to this audience (very few of whom are my political friends), as national men, whether we have reason to expect that the agitation in regard to this subject will cease while the causes that tend to reproduce agitation are actively at work? [7]
- If I attempt to talk across a room I find myself turning this way and that, and thus at alternate periods I have part of the audience behind me. [5]
- Barbara often longed to seek an audience with him. [10]
- He appeared not to see any one in the court-room, though Kitty Tynan had so placed herself that he must see her if he looked at the audience at all. [11]
- Do you mean to say you want an audience? [5]
- You have only to make play with a gold piece and I can obtain you an audience at once through Sebek, the house-steward he is my cousin. [10]
- M'sieu' Doltaire say to her, 'Madame, you must excuse our entertainment; we did not know we had an audience so distinguished. [11]
- Ere she went to her work she granted a second audience to the Roman envoy. [10]
- You ought never to have any part of the audience behind you; you never can tell what they are going to do. [5]
- And too long to explain to a prejudiced audience, who can't be expected to comprehend the character of a genius, to understand the yearning of a famous man for a little quiet. [9]
- He was talking to a vague audience, into that space where a man's eyes look when he is searching his own mind, discovering it to himself. [11]
- And from that time forth she came no more away from the Audience Chamber, but remained there and waited. [5]
- She had no thought of resistance; the inexorable ceremonial of court etiquette required the queen to be present at any audience of importance. [10]
- My idea is this: to instruct the audience about Robert Fulton, and..... Tell me--was that his real name, or was it his nom de plume? [5]
- Not long before this I had listened to a wonderful sermon by Dr. Chalmers, whose force, and energy, and vehement, but rather turgid eloquence carried, for the moment, all before them,--his audience becoming like clay in the hands of the potter. [6]
- Let me tell this audience what is true in regard to that matter; and the means by which they may correct me if I do not tell them truly is by a recurrence to the speech itself. [7]
- Once admitted, say these words: 'Donovan Pasha knows all, and asks an audience at midnight in this palace. [11]
- Out of all these inevitable elements the audience is generated,--a great compound vertebrate, as much like fifty others you have seen as any two mammals of the same species are like each other. [6]
- The attention that these audacious satires of the theater, the actors, and their audience attracted is evidence of the literary poverty of the period. [4]
- In the opera-house there is a long loft back of the audience, a kind of open gallery, in which princes are displayed. [5]
- Some one of them, keener-eyed than the rest, had seen that there was a meaning and virtue in this unsuccessful book, for which there was a new audience educated since it had tried to breathe before its time. [6]
- You see, the theater is empty, and hundreds of the audience are a good way off in the feeding-house; the first bugle-call is blown about a quarter of an hour before time for the curtain to rise. [5]
- As Governor of the Third House at Carson City he had kept the audience in hand. [5]
- My notion about the stage is, that it keeps along pretty evenly with the rest of the world; the stage is usually quite up to the level of the audience. [4]
- At daybreak on the seventeenth, a French officer who had come with a flag of truce, demanding an audience with the Russian Emperor, was brought into Wischau from our outposts. [2]
- The splendours of the scene delighted his eye and fired his imagination at first, but the audience was long and dreary, and so were most of the addresses --wherefore, what began as a pleasure grew into weariness and home-sickness by-and-by. [5]
- His appearance on the platform was a surprise to the audience, and when they recognized him there was a tremendous demonstration. [5]
- Paulette's presence as the Magdalene had had a deep effect upon the people, so that she shared with Mary the Mother the painfully real interest of the vast audience. [11]
- The audience of the literary artist has been less than that of the reporter of affairs and discoveries and the special correspondent. [4]
- I rise to the highest honors before a Philadelphia audience. [5]
- All day long the great chiefs sought an audience with him, but he sent them word that matters would be settled in the council that was to come. [9]
- Then he walked the floor with long, deliberate strides, his chin in his hand, and still the audience waited. [5]
- It is like the fire-curtain of a theatre let down between the stage and the audience, a merciful intervention between the mind and the disaster which would consume it. [11]
- She looked at the faces of the audience, seeking in them the same sense of ridicule and perplexity she herself experienced, but they all seemed attentive to what was happening on the stage, and expressed delight which to Natasha seemed feigned. [2]
- A part of the entertainment at this ceremony consisted in the listening to the reading of short extracts from the prize essays, some or all of them in the dead languages, which could not have been particularly intelligible to a large part of the audience. [6]
- He spoke after the dinner to the great audience with such beauty and eloquence that all who listened to him have remembered it as one of the most delightful addresses they ever heard. [6]
- Those who remember the Dartmouth College of that day cannot help smiling at the thought of the contrast in the way of thinking between the speaker and the larger part, or at least the older part, of his audience. [6]
- The Seigneur and the Cure had ceased listening to the babble of M. Dauphin, who seemed not to know that his audience closed its ears and found refuge in a "Well, well! [11]
- I never had the courage to talk across a long, narrow room I should be at the end of the room facing all the audience. [5]
- She looked at the audience, but only as in a dream. [11]
- The behavior of the audience was perfect. [5]
- The effect on the audience was a little different. [4]
- A glance over the audience sufficed to ascertain that that portion of the population whose dinner pails we longed to fill was evidently not present in large numbers. [9]
- Ere going to the audience hall, she had been twining wreaths for her loved dead and the lotus flowers, larkspurs, mallow and willow-leaves, from which she was to weave them, had been brought there by her desire. [10]
- The faces of the audience began to betray annoyance. [5]
- Artemus Ward used that trick a good deal; then when the belated audience presently caught the joke he would look up with innocent surprise, as if wondering what they had found to laugh at. [5]
- It was certain that the two should meet where John Osgood, squatter and romancer, should be prompter, orchestra, and audience, and he alone. [11]
- It is true that Joan had been hindered and put off a good while, but now that she was admitted to an audience at last, she was received with honors granted to only the greatest personages. [5]
- You never doubt that he is performing in a play for the entertainment of an audience. [4]
- But we knew that a great English Excursion party, and also the Viceroy of Egypt, in his splendid yacht, had been refused an audience within the last fortnight, so we thought it not safe to try it. [5]
- One of the Tabernacle--a vast iron hood or dome erected over rows of benches that will seat two or three thousand people--represents the building when it is packed with an audience intent upon the preacher. [4]
- John took two sweet-cakes and broke each in fine pieces into a saucer, and after sugaring and eulogizing the dry messes, called for two small darky volunteers from the audience to come up on the platform and devour them. [4]
- We read that such a man is magnetic, meaning that he can poll a great many votes; or that such a woman thrilled her audience, meaning probably that they were in an electric condition to be shocked by her. [4]
- Breathing hard, Terry stood still in the middle of the stage, the red fog not yet gone out of his eyes, his hands clasped at his side, vaguely realising the audience again. [11]
- Couches and divans stood between the statues, and under a canopy at the upper end of the vast room stood a throne on which Hadrian sat when he held audience. [10]
- Mademoiselle George looked sternly and gloomily at the audience and began reciting some French verses describing her guilty love for her son. [2]
- After this incident Stephen fairly astonished his audience, --especially an elderly gentleman who sat on a cracker-box in the rear, out of sight of the stand. [9]
- And this audience stared at us, and at a man seated on high behind what they call a pulpit in this country, and at some clerks and other officials seated below him--and waited. [5]
- I noticed that some of the audience didn't pay you anything at all. [5]
- We had a solemn stage-wait, now, for about twenty minutes--a thing I had counted on for effect; it is always good to let your audience have a chance to work up its expectancy. [5]
- Presently a sudden silence fell upon the grumbling audience, and everybody's eyes sought a single point--the wide, empty, carpetless stage. [5]
- It had a significance which the audience were not slow to appreciate, and went far to turn "The Sunburst Trail" at this point into a comedy-farce. [11]
- Pharaoh uttered a sigh of relief as he crossed the threshold of the audience chamber and, accosting his wife, said: "If Hosea wins his cause, we shall cross the bridge safely. [10]
- On the other side of Mr. Sweet, next to the parlor organ and the quartette, is the genial little railroad president Mr. Merrill, batting the flies which assail the unprotected crown of his head, and smiling benignly on the audience. [9]
- It happened that she had to wait here some time; for the usher begged her to have patience until the merchants' audience was over. [10]
- In both cases she had not remained quiet and, at the second audience which the duke gave her, her hot blood, though it had grown so much cooler, played her a trick, and she became involved in a vehement argument with him. [10]
- I do not see how an actor can forget himself and portray hot passion before a cold still audience. [5]
- What he would say, he was not thinking of, but the position he would occupy before the audience. [4]
- The audience was said to be the cream of London society, and it looked so. [14]
- The philosopher Harris said that the average man would not yell in either case if he had an audience. [5]
- Then a tremendous row broke out behind us, and as much as half of our audience left us, with a rush, to invest some sympathy in that. [5]
- It was a rough and unsavory audience in pit and gallery, but it was a responsive one, and it enjoyed the acting with little help to illusion in the way of scenery. [4]
- I do not rise to speak now, if I can stipulate with the audience to meet me here at half-past six or at seven o'clock. [7]
- The messenger came right into the great Rob Roy Hall of Audience, as excited as he could be, singing out, "Dispatch for Lady Gwendolen Sellers! [5]
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