Use combination in a sentence
Sentences ending with combination
- In our days we have learned the value of combination. [5]
- Jack was a most singular combination. [5]
- I'm an American in principle and a German at heart, and it's the boss combination. [5]
- By midnight I had suffered all the different kinds of shocks there are, and knew that I could never more be disturbed by them, either isolated or in combination. [5]
- But although we had given up attempting to explain the essential nature of affinities and of crystalline types, we might have supposed that we had at least fixed the identity of the substances with which we deal, and determined the laws of their combination. [3]
- Would Germany and England join the combination? [5]
- The ruby, the diamond, the emerald, the carbuncle, the topaz, the amethyst, the sapphire; of them the wall was built up in harmonious combination. [4]
- Yes, sir, a burglar alarm combines in its person all that is objectionable about a fire, a riot, and a harem, and at the same time had none of the compensating advantages, of one sort or another, that customarily belong with that combination. [5]
- When they were alone again they began to piece many unrelated things together and get horrible results out of the combination. [5]
Sentences containing combination two or more times
- Sulphur is of an oily and fiery nature; in combination with salt by its fiery nature it arouses a desire in the latter by means of which it attracts mercury, seizes it, holds it, and in combination produces other bodies. [2]
More example sentences with the word combination in them
- If I had yours to put up alongside of them, I believe the combination would bring more souls to earnest reflection and ultimate conviction of their lost condition, than any other kind of warning would. [5]
- If these powers, which differ much in different animals, are capable of improvement, there seems no great improbability in more complex faculties, such as the higher forms of abstraction, and self- consciousness, etc., having been evolved through the development and combination of the simpler ones. [1]
- You might as well try to stand in with a combination of gang-saws, or to make friends with the Department of the Interior. [4]
- Mark Twain's idea was to make a combination with Nast. [5]
- But this combination was nuts for the Ornithorhynchus, if I may use a term like that without offense. [5]
- In your movement upon Chattanooga I think it probable that you include some combination of the force near Cumberland Gap under General Morgan. [7]
- Either of the two might pull together, but the combination of the three is certainly disastrous. [4]
- It is probably true he owed his pre-eminence to no one quality, but to a fortunate combination of several. [7]
- Give what name to it we will, it is a manifestation of power which crosses our established laws of combination at a very open angle of intersection. [3]
- But because of this particular combination my happiness was ruined, and Nancy's! [9]
- The depredations of this extensive combination were severely felt; but so well were their plans arranged, that although Murel, who was always active, was everywhere suspected, there was no proof to be obtained. [5]
- I believe that this combination makes the perfection of human delight. [5]
- All this time there had been a muffled hum of conversation, and rustling of robes and scraping of feet on the floor, a combination of dull noises which filled all the place. [5]
- I consider that them effects is on account of the superior refragability, as you may say, of the sun's diramic combination with the lymphatic forces of the perihelion of Jubiter. [5]
- There was, too, the strangest combination of church influence against me. [7]
- The charm of the place is due to this combination of loveliness and granitic strength. [4]
- The operation of the laws of nature had sent a man to the ground: another combination of circumstances would have killed him, still another, and he would have arisen unhurt. [9]
- I was on the flag-stones, for there was, no furniture in the den except a long, broad board, or combination of boards, like a barn-door, and this bed was accommodating five or six persons, and that was its full capacity. [5]
- Her conversation with the editor of the Record proved so entertaining that she forgot all about the clipping until she had reached Fairview, and had satisfied a somewhat imperious appetite by a combination of lunch and afternoon tea. [9]
- The fear of the combination of the press for any improper purpose, or long for any proper purpose, is chimerical. [4]
- Thus we have the combination A B C, or fibro-cartilage. [3]
- The combination of the cat and the canary did not seem incongruous where she was concerned; it was as though something in her passionless self neutralized even the antagonisms of natural history. [11]
- I am glad that no possible combination of words could describe them, for I might then be foolish enough to attempt it. [5]
- In the true swordsman there is found that curious sixth sense, which is a combination of touch, sight, apprehension, divination. [11]
- In addition to supervising its customary affairs, she also shouldered the responsibility of an unusual combination of misfortunes, for besides the critical condition of her mother, her sister, Jean Clemens, was down with pneumonia, no word of which must come to Mrs. Clemens. [5]
- Was there also something of that perdurable cohesion of class against class; the powerful if often unlovely unity of faction, the shoulder-to-shoulder combination of war; the tribal fanaticism which makes brave men out of unpromising material? [11]
- He was a roaring, terrific combination of wind and lightning and thunder, and earnest, whole-souled profanity. [5]
- Like De la Riviere, she perceived a strange combination of the gentleman and--something else; but, unlike him, she saw also a light in the face and eyes that might be genius, poetry, adventure. [11]
- The face was repulsive in its combination of surly smugness, as shown by the long upper lip, by a repellent darkness round the small, furtive eyes, by a hardness in the huge, bearded jaw, and by a mouth of primary animalism. [11]
- The most complex of them can be resolved into a combination of these few simple anatomical constituents. [3]
- But if, instead of sympathizing with the situation of his workman, he forms a combination with all the mills of his sort, and reduces wages merely to increase his gains, he is guilty of an act as worthy of indictment as the strike. [4]
- A similar relation of people to one another is seen in every combination of men for common activity--in agriculture, trade, and every administration. [2]
- They are combined of a frankness as to the emotions, and such outer concessions to physical sensations, as make a painful combination against a mere man's caution; even when that caution has a Norman origin. [11]
- Jimmy Finn was not burned in the calaboose, but died a natural death in a tan vat, of a combination of delirium tremens and spontaneous combustion. [5]
- There was probably not a knight of all the Round Table combination who would not rather have died than been caught carrying such a thing as that on his flagstaff. [5]
- You get a new combination every time you pull a string. [11]
- I doubt whether more than nine out of ten, in the average, have that combination of gifts required for the writing of readable verse. [6]
- There is a mansion-and- brewery suggestion about the combination which seems very incongruous at first. [5]
- I had often jested with Atossa, and Sappho was a combination of my charming Frankfort cousin Betsy, with whom I spent such delightful days in Rippoldsau, and lovely Lina von Adelsson. [10]
- But Lurida believes it was the ribbon, or something in the combination of colors. [6]
- Steam, telegraphs, and intelligence have brought these to be an advantageous combination for one united people. [7]
- My brother knows him, he's dined with him--the present Emperor--more than once in Paris, and tells me he never met a more cunning or subtle diplomatist--you know, a combination of French adroitness and Italian play-acting! [2]
- I could have headed off every combination and been elected, had it not been for Matteson's double game--and his defeat now gives me more pleasure than my own gives me pain. [7]
- In me, you have Missouri morals, Connecticut culture; this, gentlemen, is the combination which makes the perfect man. [5]
- George W. Cable had proven his ability as a reader, and Clemens saw possibilities in a reading combination, which was first planned to include Aldrich, and Howells, and a private car. [5]
- Nast, like Clemens, had no special taste for platforming, and while undoubtedly there would have been large profits in the combination, the promise of the venture did not compel his acceptance. [5]
- His name then had been Joseph Sobieski, but this not fitting well with the English language, he had searched the directory of London till he found the impeachably English combination of Clifford Melville. [11]
- I judged I'd got to get up a combination somehow that would fill the bill; so I hove into the fellow half a teaspoonful of No. [5]
- I had to fight the combination, and there was one day when I hadn't that five million dollars there, nor five. [11]
- They are not English, and not American; they are the Swiss combination of the two. [5]
- There is an endeavor to teach how to call the words of a reading-book, but not to teach how to read; for reading involves, certainly for the older scholars, the combination of known words to form new ideas. [4]
- It is no doubt our individual experience that we hear almost every day--and we hear nothing so eagerly--some new story, better or worse, but new in its exhibition of human character, and in the combination of events. [4]
- So when I did lay it before her, later, I realized once more that it will not do for the literary fraction of a combination to try to manage affairs which properly belong in the office of the business bulk of it. [5]
- Nay, when the dancers fly wildly apart, they, not merely come together again with unerring certainty, but form in new combination another delightful and perfectly harmonious picture. [10]
- They will not complain, however, of the combination now announced by the two leading powers, although they think they had a right to expect a more independent, if not a more friendly, course from each of them. [7]
- It's a singular combination, Pride and myself, isn't it? [11]
- This is a combination which gives immortality to conversation. [5]
- You see, the combination started this way. [5]
- I said that combination ought to fetch any disease except agnosticism. [4]
- It is a combination of power and conspicuousness which the man understands. [5]
- Then the only combination left open to them was of a ground-floor flat to the right and a third-floor flat to the left. [8]
- The Luigi faction carried its strength into the Democratic party, the Angelo faction entered into a combination with the Whigs. [5]
- It was planned by one of the autochthonous inhabitants with the most ingenious combination of inconveniences that the natural man could educe from his original perversity of intellect. [6]
- His dress was bizarre, his face almost classical, the brow clear and strong, the profile good to the mouth, where there showed a combination of sensuousness and adventure. [11]
- Both investments had been made, needless to say, on the strength of Janet's increased salary; and Lise, when Janet had surprised her before the bureau rapturously surveying the combination, justified herself with a defiant apology. [9]
- No combination could be more desirable for a young man who proposed to himself a career of getting money by adroit management and spending it in pure and simple self-indulgence. [4]
- This combination of Austrian precision with Russian valor--what more could be wished for? [2]
- She described him as a combination of the antique Greek sage with the European modern man of science. [14]
- The German bakers are very ingenious; and if they could be convinced of this great error, that because things are good separately, they must be good in combination, the produce of their ovens would be much more eatable. [4]
- Thoughts like these are like the secret of a combination lock; they let you into the place where the gold and securities and title-deeds of life are. [11]
- Whether one or another of them is best in any given case,--whether they shall be taken alone or in combination, in large or small quantities, are separate questions. [3]
- Both in city and country, the evolution of the physical harmonies which make music to our eyes requires a combination of favorable circumstances, of which alternations of unburdened tranquillity with intervals of varied excitement of mind and body are among the most important. [6]
- They tried to analyze her charm, and they succeeded in formulating it as a combination of intellectual fashionableness and worldly innocence. [8]
- The combination is air-tight, and once a man is stricken in our district escape is impossible for him. [5]
- At an early age, and quite unconsciously, he had accepted property as the ruling power of the universe, and when family was added thereto the combination was nothing less than divine. [9]
- Judge Douglas has again, for, I believe, the fifth time, if not the seventh, in my presence, reiterated his charge of a conspiracy or combination between the National Democrats and Republicans. [7]
- He was an achievement that civilization had not hitherto produced, a combination of the Beaux Arts and the Jockey Club and American adaptability. [9]
- That looks like a useful combination at this moment--at this moment. [11]
- She is now a sort of combination of her two earlier selves: in religious loyalty and subjection she is Zoe: in triviality of character and shallowness of judgement--together with a touch of vanity in dress --she is Phoebe. [5]
- Now, it was a peculiar thing that Ibrahim's pronunciation grew worse every time; which goes to show that a combination of Soudanese and fellah doesn't make a really clever villain. [11]
- As if by a miracle, he knew not whether from looking or listening, he found a combination of notes which he had long been seeking for the motet on which he was working. [10]
- And now another, a final song, a combination of all--of love, and loss and parting and ruin, and war and patriotism and destiny. [11]
- There is required a combination of forces and extreme opposition to drive her from her position; she takes her stand, not to be moved by the sound of Apollo's lyre or the curved bow of pleasure. [5]
- First you'll marry a combination of calico and consumption that's as thin as a rail, and next you'll get a creature that's nothing more than the dropsy in disguise, and then you've got to eke out that bridal dress with an old balloon. [5]
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