Use experiment in a sentence
Sentences starting with experiment
- Experiment in old substances gives new--well, say, new precipitations. [11]
Sentences ending with experiment
- Are you fellows willing to take your share in the experiment? [9]
- It was midnight when we made the successful test, after eight months of experiment. [9]
- My first thought was to fire at his head; to plant the ball between his eyes: but this is a dangerous experiment. [4]
- You've selected the very most difficult piece of railroad in Australia for your experiment. [5]
- It is a very good article and the writer says all manner of kind and complimentary things about me--for which I am sure thank him with all my heart; but then why should he go and spoil all his praise by one unlucky experiment? [5]
- Clemens had been urged to consult her, and one idle afternoon concluded to make the experiment. [5]
- The Master turned to me.---Don't think too much of the result of our one experiment. [6]
- What determined me to give up Law and apply myself to Medicine I can hardly say, but I had from the first looked upon that year's study as an experiment. [6]
- I was afraid they were venturing on a rash experiment. [8]
- After a time the circulation returned, and he does not seem to have been the worse for his dangerous, or seemingly dangerous, experiment. [6]
Short sentences using experiment
- The next experiment was here. [5]
- The crucial experiment is this. [6]
- This experiment was baseball. [5]
- Make the experiment and see. [5]
- To experiment. [9]
Sentences containing experiment two or more times
- The success of my last experiment induced me to try an experiment with my photographic apparatus. [5]
- It is an experiment, we frankly acknowledge that fact, a democratic experiment dependent on physical science, social science, and scientific education. [9]
- An experiment that could survive that was an experiment with some substance to it somewhere. [5]
- If it was an experiment for Jack, it was also an experiment for him, the result of which gave him some anxiety. [4]
More example sentences with the word experiment in them
- I will tell you my wicked, but half involuntary experiment on the wild heart under the faded bombazine. [6]
- He knows and you know that the question is not settled, and that his ill-timed experiment to settle it has made it worse than it ever was before. [7]
- I know their witnesses say that there are cross currents--that, as one witness says, there were three cross currents and two eddies; so far as mere statement, without experiment, and mingled with mistakes, can go, they have proved. [7]
- If I experiment with it, who must be answerable? [5]
- May I ask why you do not try the experiment yourself? [6]
- An illustration of what can be done in this direction is furnished by the Elmira Reformatory, where the experiment is being made with most encouraging results, which, of course, would be still better if the indeterminate sentence were brought to its aid. [4]
- Two million dollars went into that experiment, but Manana won. [11]
- The first experiment was not merely a failure, it was more than a failure. [5]
- To him life was less a problem than an experiment, and this last act, this nameless repudiation of the laws of family life, was like the sign of a chemist's activity. [11]
- The Irish parliament was confessedly a failure, and it is scarcely within the possibilities that the experiment will be tried again. [4]
- The guide told us these things, and he would hardly try so hazardous an experiment as the telling of a falsehood, when it is all he can do to speak the truth in English without getting the lock-jaw. [5]
- If I enter upon this wide field of horticultural experiment, I shall leave peace behind; and I may expect the ground to open, and swallow me and all my fortune. [4]
- The experiment of universal suffrage must render the waters of political and social life more or less turbid even if they remain innoxious. [6]
- Those enemies must understand that they cannot experiment for ten years trying to destroy the government, and if they fail, still come back into the Union unhurt. [7]
- The question is too vast for the Drawer, but as an experiment in sociology it would like to see the system in abeyance for one season. [4]
- This had been too daring an experiment with one of her nature, which had within the last few months become as strangely, insistently, even fanatically honest, as it had been elusive in the past. [11]
- No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no Past at my back. [6]
- Well, I began to have doubts, I began to experiment on my pupils. [4]
- Nevertheless, thanks partly to good fortune, and to the farseeing wisdom of our early statesmen who perceived that the success of our experiment depended upon the maintenance of an isolation from European affairs, we established democracy as a practical form of government. [9]
- He eagerly endeavoured to dissuade the gentlemen of his acquaintance from smoking after dinner, which he had found by experiment to be injurious. [10]
- It is pleasant to celebrate in this peaceful way, upon this old mother soil, the anniversary of an experiment which was born of war with this same land so long ago, and wrought out to a successful issue by the devotion of our ancestors. [5]
- It was as though Fate had deliberately tempted him and arranged the necessary conditions, for Soolsby's feet were in a little pool of liquid which had been spilled on the floor--the experiment was exact and real. [11]
- And she--was not this delirious atmosphere of light and music just the influence to which he would wish to subject her before trying the last experiment of all which can stir the soul of a woman? [6]
- Nor do I think it proper now to suspend military operations to try any experiment of negotiation. [7]
- The most encouraging thing I have seen lately is an experiment in one of our cities. [4]
- It shows that they are brighter than I am, for I want to be the principal Experiment myself--and I intend to be, too. [5]
- I do believe thee wouldn't have so readily allowed me to begin the study of medicine, if it hadn't had the novelty of an experiment to thee. [5]
- The first of the two stories based itself upon an experiment which some thought cruel, even on paper. [6]
- Mr. Darwin invented the theory that goes by that name, but the Ornithorhynchus was the first to put it to actual experiment and prove that it could be done. [5]
- From the outside the spectacle might have had its pathos, and it is not easy to justify such an experiment as he had made at his time of life, except upon the ground where he rested from its consideration--the ground of necessity. [8]
- Have you tried the other experiment which I suggested to you? [5]
- Will you repeat the old experiment of a material success and a moral and spiritual failure? [4]
- I long for the moment to come when the experiment of the sea-air will be tried. [14]
- In any society the ideal must be the banishment of the more sensuous; the refinement of it will only repeat the continued experiment of history--the end of a civilization in a polished materialism, and its speedy fall from that into grossness. [4]
- This experiment on the great scale has since been repeated on the small scale by the aid of other contrivances. [6]
- The rent of the furnished house they had taken was such that if they failed their experiment would be little less than ruinous. [8]
- Though he concealed the fact under a show of irritation and contempt, he was evidently in despair that the sole remaining chance of verifying his theory by a huge experiment and proving its soundness to the whole world was slipping away from him. [2]
- A week of the experiment was quite enough. [4]
- One half of the experiment seems to have succeeded, and the sooner we try the other half, the better. [9]
- In any case the experiment of authorship, in however humble, a way, has an analogy to that other tempting occupation of making "investments" in the stock-market: the first trial is certain to lead to another. [4]
- You must try the experiment in the democratization of industry on which George's heart is set. [9]
- Sir John repeated the experiment a number of times. [5]
- It is in the breed of the Eglingtons to go exploring, to experiment. [11]
- This was the testimony of men who had made no experiment, only conjecture. [7]
- Emerson had only tangential relations with the experiment, and tells its story in his "Historic Notes" very kindly and respectfully, but with that sense of the ridiculous in the aspect of some of its conditions which belongs to the sagacious common-sense side of his nature. [6]
- Meanwhile, Shelek Pasha talked of the school, of the donkey-market, the monopoly of which the Khedive had granted David; and of the new prosperous era opening up in Egypt, due to the cotton David had introduced as an experiment. [11]
- He was after summat big in experiment for explosives, so the papers said, and so he said himself before he died, to Miss Claridge--ay, 'twas her he deceived and treated cruel, that come to him when he was shattered by his experimenting. [11]
- The experiment is successful, and thousands have won their deathless names in making it so. [7]
- I was the subject of my mother's experiment. [5]
- By the time Still began to experiment, Kellgren had completed his development of the principles of his system and established himself in a good practice in London--1874 --and was in good shape to convey his discovery to Kansas, Mental Telegraphically. [5]
- Then, all that sought celebrity and fame and distinction expected to find them in the success of that experiment. [7]
- So that thee should have such sort of experience, though I was but a foolish choice of the experiment. [11]
- Dad, I have set my heart on inaugurating an experiment in industrial democracy in Foxon Falls! [9]
- Did you ever see that electrical experiment which consists in passing a flash through letters of gold-leaf in a darkened room, whereupon some name or legend springs out of the darkness in characters of fire? [6]
- But his self-complacency seduced him into attempting a flight into regions of unexplored English, and the reckless experiment was his ruin. [5]
- I venture to say that it was an experiment that would have failed in any community in the United States, whether it was presented as a piece of philanthropy or of punishment. [4]
- He tried the same experiment, in the open air, with a swallow and T. fimbria; but the large size of this moth probably interfered with its capture. [1]
- And it was Sally who must be given credit for the great experiment, although she took Mr. Bentley and Hodder into her confidence. [9]
- It is a Rip Van Winkle experiment which I am promising myself. [6]
- He did not regret having made the experiment, for he knew that he should not have been satisfied with himself if he had not made it. [6]
- Except in the rapidity with which steam and electricity have enabled us to move to our object, and in the discoveries of science which enable us to relieve suffering and prolong human life, there is nothing new in our experiment. [4]
- If this eventually, prove to be the case at least some such experiment as the new British Labour Party has proposed for the Empire may be tried. [9]
- No more striking proof of this fact can be cited than the modern experiment in prison reform in which hardened convicts, when "given a chance," frequently become useful citizens. [9]
- If I still possessed it I would, despite my advanced age, try the experiment of inoculating myself with it. [10]
- Shall we be pioneers here in Foxon Falls in the new experiment? [9]
- In those days Philip saw much of Celia, who at length had given up teaching, and had come to the city to try her experiment, into which she was willing to embark her small income. [4]
- The experiment is perfectly successful; only, at the end of it, you haven't any mind. [4]
- The phrase has passed into current speech, and a considerable portion of the public is under the impression that an experiment of the indeterminate sentence is actually being made. [4]
- I followed the other Experiment around, yesterday afternoon, at a distance, to see what it might be for, if I could. [5]
- Seasoning green timber or men is always an experiment. [4]
- I know your opinion of theorists, but this man is working out the experiment with human chemicals. [9]
- But this was only an experiment. [4]
- As an experiment on the price, I offered him a two-centime piece, which is a sort of satire on the very name of money,--when he desired me to help myself to as many oranges as I liked. [4]
- In the view of these statements, it is impossible not to realize the entire futility of attempting to silence this asserted science by the flattest and most peremptory results of experiment. [3]
- Dr. Baillie, one of the physicians in the great Hotel Dieu of Paris, invited two Homoeopathic practitioners to experiment in his wards. [3]
- At a meeting of the Medical and Chirurgical Society before referred to, Dr. Merriman related an instance occurring in his own practice, which excites a reasonable suspicion that two lives were sacrificed to a still less dangerous experiment. [3]
- This modern experiment of putting us through the world--the world of literature, experience, and travel--at excursion rates is of doubtful expediency. [4]
- This experiment has now been in operation long enough to enable us to judge something of its results and its promises for the future. [4]
- That there is nothing like experiment to clear the vision is the general idea, but oftener it is experience that perplexes. [4]
- And we are not ready, as yet, to accept without further experiment the dogma that tropical and sub-tropical people will not ultimately be able to govern themselves. [9]
- The experiment was not much to his taste, and the association and work demanded, at that time, of a ward politician soon disgusted him. [4]
- I resolved to not go into such a foolish experiment. [4]
- I, for one, never begrudged her any pleasure she had in life, and I do not know but she was as happy as it is possible for human being to be in a full experiment of worldliness. [4]
- She had to nerve him to it, to represent more than once that now they had no choice but to make this experiment. [8]
- I was thinking much more of Foucault's grand experiment, one of the most sublime visible demonstrations of a great physical fact in the records of science. [6]
- There were not more than a dozen attendants on the lectures all together, so that the enterprise had the air of an experiment, and the fascination of pioneering for those engaged in it. [5]
- Politics without virtue, money-making without conscience, may result in great splendor, but as such an experiment is not new, its end can be predicted. [4]
- How the experiment might have ended but for this empirical and most unphilosophical interference, there is no saying; but it settled the point that the rebellious nature was not to be subjugated in a brief conflict. [6]
- The same experiment might be tried at a dinner-party, namely, to ascertain if the total hum of low voices in the natural key would not be less for the individual voice to overcome than the total scream of all the voices raised to a shriek. [4]
- Still, in the middle of Kansas, in a village, began to experiment in 1874, only five years after Kellgren began the same work obscurely in the village of Gotha, in Germany. [5]
- The people of Mexico are entitled to try the experiment of self-determination. [9]
- She would bring me, along with other news, the result of a certain experiment which I had been starting. [5]
- Educators and sociologists may supply the theories; but by experiment, by trial and error,--yes, and by prayer, --the solution must be found in the practical domain of industry. [9]
- What wonder that many of them learn in their defensive position to play a game, and sometimes experiment upon the honest natures of their admirers! [4]
- He gave the man five francs, by way of experiment. [5]
- The experiment of making March's old friend free of his house had not given her all the pleasure that so kind a thing ought to have afforded so good a woman. [8]
- With his servant, Luke Claridge was the first to look upon him lying in the wreck of his last experiment, a spirit-lamp still burning above him, in the grey light of a winter's morning. [11]
- If he were living in a fool's paradise he would know it, and he ventured to put his fortune to the test of experiment. [4]
- But his faculties, keenly alert, grasped the entire field; marked once more the empirical trait in her that he loved her unflinching willingness to submit herself to an experiment. [9]
- It was before Janet's convalescence began that Mrs. Maturin had consulted Insall concerning her proposed experiment in literature. [9]
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