Use details in a sentence
Sentences starting with details
- Details of Hooker's night fight do great credit to his command, and particularly to the Eleventh Corps and Geary's part of the Twelfth. [7]
- Details are necessary--details are the only valuable things in our trade. [5]
Sentences ending with details
- The mere death would have been cruelty enough, without overloading it and emphasizing it with that score of harsh and wanton details. [5]
- Of course you would change the details. [4]
- Or was the whole really so admirable that it would have seemed petty to find fault with the less successful details? [10]
- I was told what became of him, but as it was a disappointment to me, I will not enter into details. [5]
- The following days were overcrowded with business details. [10]
- Why, she was--she was almost supreme in several details. [5]
- There is no use in stringing out the details. [5]
- My eyes were upon the loser of this duel when he got his last and vanquishing wound--it was in his face and it carried away his--but no matter, I must not enter into details. [5]
- She was about to leave the house upon the mission which had drawn her footsteps in the same direction as those of Ian Stafford, when the butler came to her for information upon some details. [11]
- But I forbear to go into unseemly details. [4]
Short sentences using details
- Minor details at our leisure. [6]
- I forget the other details. [5]
- Not omit necessary details. [5]
- Let us examine details. [5]
- Give me the details! [5]
Sentences containing details two or more times
- All the details of their own religion are proven and established by miracles; the details of ours must be proven in the same way. [5]
More example sentences with the word details in them
- I could give you the details if I had time. [5]
- By the time you have drawn twenty-one wales and written "William I.--1066-1087--twenty-one years" twenty-one times, those details will be your property; you cannot dislodge them from your memory with anything but dynamite. [5]
- Brampton had not yet received the details, but the Consolidation Bill had gone into the House that morning, and would be a law before the week was out. [9]
- During the long years of their union Mrs. Ebers was his active helpmate, many of the business details relating to his works and their American and English editions being transacted by her. [10]
- This beautiful miniature world had exactly the appearance of those "relief maps" which reproduce nature precisely, with the heights and depressions and other details graduated to a reduced scale, and with the rocks, trees, lakes, etc., colored after nature. [5]
- Nothing in the world affords a newspaper reporter so much satisfaction as gathering up the details of a bloody and mysterious murder and writing them up with aggravating circumstantiality. [5]
- Therefore go on with the other details, and drop this one from your list. [5]
- Being deeply engaged with the details of the expedition to the Soudan, David had not gone to the Palace; and he was unaware of the turn which things had taken. [11]
- Clearly, plainly, fully, with more thorough knowledge of many details than even the superintendent of the water works, she explained her design to the assembled professionals. [10]
- For additional evidence, with details, see M. Houzeau, 'Etudes sur les Facultes Mentales des Animaux,' tom. [1]
- But now we will go together to the Circus, and can discuss the details on our way. [10]
- He put the whole matter by, and gave himself to the details of the work before him. [8]
- He studied a while, then he just went into the Details --walked round and round the hole and spied into it from every point of the compass. [5]
- Besides this feeling which absorbed her altogether and hindered her from following the details of her husband's plans, thoughts that had no connection with what he was saying flitted through her mind. [2]
- All this illustrates what has been done for the elucidation of the intimate details of formation of the organs. [3]
- Then the details were ponderously thought out by the miller, and ponderously acted upon, with the dry approval of Medallion, who dared not tell the Cure of his complicity, though he was without compunction. [11]
- But these details were only secondary matters--his face was the lodestone that chained the eye. [5]
- His principal occupation was, however, to attend to the details of commerce as it was transacted over the counter. [6]
- The General Slaughter was rendered with a faithfulness to details which reflects the highest credit upon the late participants in it. [5]
- Mr. Hopper's eye was on him, and had taken in the details of his costume before realizing the import of his presence. [9]
- The cyanide process was new to me, and full of interest; and among the costly and elaborate mining machinery there were fine things which were new to me, but I was already familiar with the rest of the details of the gold-mining industry. [5]
- This perfect organization was maintained for many years, and though it came to be relaxed in details, it was literally true that the heiress was never alone, and never out of the sight of some trusted person responsible for her safety. [4]
- Lawrence also gives very full details in his 'Lectures on Physiology,' 1822. [1]
- He made himself very agreeable by abundant details concerning the religious, political, social, commercial, and educational progress of the South American cities and states. [6]
- Lost in the variety, the multiplicity of minute details, the refinements of analysis and introspection, he would miss any leading indications. [4]
- His letters for two years are burdened with harassments in uncongenial details and unsuccessful struggles. [4]
- His delicate stomach turns, at certain details of the white man's food; but he likes over-ripe fish, and brazed dog, and cat, and rat, and will eat his own uncle with relish. [5]
- He was continually traveling through the three provinces entrusted to him, was pedantic in the fulfillment of his duties, severe to cruelty with his subordinates, and went into everything down to the minutest details himself. [2]
- He had already told them yesterday much that was fresh and interesting about the Imperial court; to-day he entered into fuller details of the brilliant life his young lord had led at Constantinople, whither he had accompanied him. [10]
- From its base to the soaring tops of its mighty towers, all its lines and all its details vaguely suggest human architecture. [5]
- When he came to that scene in the Fort, the three men sitting, targets for his bullets,--he softened the details greatly. [11]
- Then he began to quote Byron about Santa Croce, and maintained that he could "furnish out creation" in all its details from that set of his. [6]
- These details seem to me all inadequate and misleading, for the attraction of the face that made it interesting is still undefined. [4]
- It needs genius to import into literature ordinary conversation, petty domestic details, and the commonplace and vulgar phases of life. [4]
- Accordingly I wrote to Herr J. von Fischer to ask what he supposed was the meaning of this strange action, and he has sent me two long letters full of new and curious details, which will, I hope, be hereafter published. [1]
- It is hard to draw the line between scientific curiosity and the desire for the patient's sake to learn all the details of his condition. [6]
- I was able to distinguish details pretty well. [5]
- It takes much to convince the average man of anything; and perhaps nothing can ever make him realize that he is the average woman's inferior--yet in several important details the evidences seems to show that that is what he is. [5]
- He had ample time to attend to these details while he was going up and returning. [5]
- At a future time I will examine what man calls his mind and give you the details of that chaos, then you will see and understand. [5]
- If you are through your junketing by that time, it will be an admirable opportunity for you to learn the practical details of the business . [4]
- As they walked through the silent streets toward the Opera House, he listened perforce to Mr. Bixby's comments upon some of the innumerable details which Jethro had planned and quietly carried out while sitting, in the window of the Throne Room. [9]
- The details for this object will be immediately communicated to the State authorities through the War Department. [7]
- They helped me, they fed me with dialect, with local details, with memories, with old letters, with diaries of their forebears, until, if I had gone wrong, it would have been through lack of skill in handling my material. [11]
- Little by little they discover and apply the multitude of details that go to make the perfect engine. [5]
- Having attended to these important details, Honora drove to the restaurant in her hansom cab, the blood coursing pleasantly in her veins. [9]
- I am recalling these details to show that the amusement was popular and cheap. [4]
- I go into these details because they are important. [5]
- Richards worked at these details a good while, and in the end he thought he remembered things concerning them which must have gotten mislaid in his memory through long neglect. [5]
- In this work there are many details connected with the forms of these shelter dykes, their arrangements so as to present a series of settling basins, etc., a description of which would only complicate the conception. [5]
- It seemed to them that what they had lived through and experienced could not be expressed in words, and that any reference to the details of his life infringed the majesty and sacredness of the mystery that had been accomplished before their eyes. [2]
- When my friend the politician gets too far into the personal details of the quorum pars magna fui, I find myself all at once exclaiming in mental articulation, Popgun! [6]
- Since I had the pleasure of making the acquaintance of Mr. Motley at Varzin, I have been intrusted with communicating to you a few details I have gathered from the mouth of the Prince. [6]
- The details of the plan were then settled by Archibius, Anukis, and Berenike, who was with the family of Arius, and the decision was communicated to the architect. [10]
- The details of the plan are not many or elaborate. [5]
- In several details the parallels are quaintly exact. [5]
- I am of the opinion that the creed of the Church of the Galileans is not laid down in as many details as that of the Church of Saint Polycarp. [6]
- I wrote up the murder with a hungry attention to details, and when it was finished experienced but one regret--namely, that they had not hanged my benefactor on the spot, so that I could work him up too. [5]
- On waking in the morning she told the Rostovs and all her acquaintances the details of Count Bezukhov's death. [2]
- The newspaper details the morning after were read with that eager interest that the misfortunes of neighbors always excite. [4]
- The fact that the lower animals are excited by the same emotions as ourselves is so well established, that it will not be necessary to weary the reader by many details. [1]
- The conversation of the hostess and her guests turned upon details of the kitchen and the laundry; upon the best mode of raising bread, whether with "emptins" (emptyings, yeast) or baking powder; about "bluing" and starching and crimping, and similar matters. [6]
- I alternated between the horror and the romance of the story I had heard, supplying for myself the details he had omitted: I beheld the signals from the windows, the clandestine meetings, the sudden and desperate flight. [9]
- What happened in the holy of holies, my mother's chamber, has remained, down to the smallest details, permanently engraved upon my soul. [10]
- The details of the great room fixed themselves indelibly in her brain; the subdued light, the polished table laden with silver and glass, the roses, and the purple hot-house grapes. [9]
- I have given the foregoing details to shew that an instinctive tendency to acquire an art is not peculiar to man. [1]
- The details of the enlistment and organization will be made known through the Department of the Navy. [7]
- We realise that the edifice of public justice is built of precedents, from the ground upward; but we do not always realise that all the other details of our civilisation are likewise built of precedents. [5]
- Pierre knew all the details of the attempt on Bonaparte's life in 1809 by a German student in Vienna, and knew that the student had been shot. [2]
- He was attired--for the details of his dress forced themselves upon me vividly --in a rough-spun suit of knickerbockers, a colored-shirt having a large and prominent gold stud, red and brown stockings of a diamond pattern, and heavy walking-boots. [9]
- So he adorned the description of his ride as an envoy most generously with many partially invented details. [10]
- Every leaf of the cottonwood is distinctly defined--it is a kodak for faithful, hard, unsentimental detail; the other an impressionist picture, delicious to look upon, full of a subtle and exquisite charm, but all details fused in a swoon of vague and soft loveliness. [5]
- I think that the bulk of those details can be found in Olive Schreiner's books, and she would not be accused of sketching the Boer's portrait with an unfair hand. [5]
- And each of the brothers at different times during the next fortnight did the same, differing scarcely at all in details, or choice of phrase or meaning, and not at all in general facts and essentials. [11]
- So long as the book was published, and by a respectable firm, he was indifferent as a lord to the ignoble details of royalty. [4]
- Many notes of that time I was unwilling to leave unused and, though the details are not uninteresting, their abundance certainly impairs the effect of the whole. [10]
- Since murder was that man's intention, why should he palter with small details? [5]
- I was satisfied that I could see all these details with my naked eye; but when I tried it, that mule and those vivid people had wholly vanished, and the house itself was become small and vague. [5]
- And the fact that his attitude toward her had been one of sympathy and friendliness rather than of disapproval, that his insight seemed to have fathomed her case, apprehended it in all but the details, was even more disturbing--yet vaguely consoling. [9]
- Prince Bagration was thanking the individual commanders and inquiring into details of the action and our losses. [2]
- I forgot to tell you how thoroughly I enjoyed your account of the country printing office, and how true it all was and how intimately recognizable in all its details. [5]
- For hours we talked over the great plan, without ever feeling hungry; and at last, when all the details had been arranged satisfactorily, we cast lots and Millet was elected--elected to die, as we called it. [5]
- But I have taken the trouble to find out, from unquestioned sources, the truth about the Consolidated Tractions Company--I shall not go into the details at length--they are doubtless familiar to you. [9]
- These two details, taken in connection with the fact that for his extraordinary offense the only punishment he got from the East India Company's Government was a solemn official "reprimand"--suggest the suspicion that he was a European of consequence. [5]
- These details are taken from 'The Mutineers of the "Bounty,"' by Lady Belcher, 1870; and from 'Pitcairn Island,' ordered to be printed by the House of Commons, May 29, 1863. [1]
- Took into Cynthia's suddenly exalted consciousness and see the picture, actual and potential, unroll itself in all its details of the natural, the ridiculous, the selfish, the pitiful, the human. [6]
- But these and such external details hold a quite secondary place in this study of a soul. [10]
- Leaving out unimportant stretches of country and details of incident, I saw and experienced the following described matters and things. [5]
- Does the exhibit stand upon wide, and loose, and eloquent generalizing--which is not evidence, and not proof--or upon details, particulars, statistics, illustrations, demonstrations? [5]
- Until I so speak, there is no need to enter upon details. [7]
- There is not space here to give the details of the practices at Elmira. [4]
- By and by some Revolutionary anecdote came up, and he showed singular familiarity with the lives of the Adamses, and gave many details relating to Major Andre. [6]
- I vaguely remember some of the details of that gathering--dimly I can see a hundred people--no, perhaps fifty--shadowy figures sitting at tables feeding, ghosts now to me, and nameless forevermore. [5]
- I have added some details, but only a couple of them are important ones. [5]
- I will cull some details of it from trustworthy sources mainly from "Russell's Natal. [5]
- Albeit they contain some details not of interest to the general public, to my notion it is such imperfections as these which lend to them the reality they bear. [9]
- The good Colonel sighed as he signed, away that business which had been an honor to the, city where it was founded, I thank heaven that we are not concerned with the details of their talk that day. [9]
- The details I shall give will relate chiefly to the first century. [3]
- He left the room, and Noel took his place and said that the interruption was to be deplored, but that fortunately he was personally acquainted with the details of the battle himself, and if permitted would be glad to state them to the company. [5]
- There was a romantic affair, I believe, with a young gentleman of the English embassy, though I do not know the details. [9]
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