Use individual in a sentence
Sentences starting with individual
- Individual differences between the members of the same species are admitted by every one to occur under a state of nature. [1]
- Individual judgment may be very interesting and have its value, depending upon the capacity of the judge. [4]
- Individual responsibility! [9]
Sentences ending with individual
- This personal peculiarity varies with the age and conditions of the individual. [6]
- To each of us it appears in some respects in the same way, but with a difference for every individual. [6]
- Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else,--very rarely to those who say to themselves, "Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual! [6]
- The principal objection to the choice made by the powerful head of the government was that it had fallen on land owned by a private individual. [10]
- Perhaps it was the instinctive craving to take part in the grand impulsive expression of thousands of others that had carried away each individual. [10]
- One who attracts so many men of all ages can scarcely be expected to know the abode of each individual. [10]
- Although there were sixty of us, this was actually done in the case of each individual. [10]
- The last relic of barbarism was the use of plates,--one or even more to each individual. [6]
- They are probably more valuable to him than they can be to any other individual. [3]
- I know a man--a prominent man --who has written a book that will go like wildfire; a book that arraigns the Standard Oil fiends, and gives them unmitigated hell, individual by individual. [5]
Sentences containing individual two or more times
- The qualities abide; the men who exhibit them have now more, now less, and pass away; the qualities remain on another brow.--All that respects the individual is temporary and prospective, like the individual himself, who is ascending out of his limits into a catholic existence. [6]
- That is to say, the product of the individual Indian, annually (for export some whither), is worth $1.15; that of the individual Australasian (for export some whither), $75! [5]
- It was, however, not a smile for an individual, whoever that individual might chance to be. [11]
- The second method is to consider the actions of some one man--a king or a commander--as equivalent to the sum of many individual wills; whereas the sum of individual wills is never expressed by the activity of a single historic personage. [2]
More example sentences with the word individual in them
- 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]
- It might be worth while to inquire what effect this exciting accumulation of the news of the world upon an individual or a community has upon happiness and upon character. [4]
- Nearly every individual wore the ribbon across his breast. [5]
- Accept my best wishes for your individual welfare, and for the welfare and happiness of the whole British people. [7]
- As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and, next, no one left to borrow from, so must it be with a government. [7]
- It is Eucken who says that the individual, once released from external authority, can never be turned back to it. [9]
- It is individual, which the ocean, with all its gulfs and inlets and multitudinous shores, hardly seems to be. [6]
- Thousands of people were made so sea-sick by the rolling and pitching of floors and streets that they were weak and bed-ridden for hours, and some few for even days afterward.--Hardly an individual escaped nausea entirely. [5]
- We know the weakness of individual sticks, and the strength of the concentrated faggot. [5]
- By this concentration we shall be able as one man or one woman to reach the human limit of cultivation, and get rid of all the aberrations of individual assertion and feeling. [4]
- I say, then, we are forming an aristocracy; and, transitory as its individual life often is, it maintains itself tolerably, as a whole. [6]
- My individual stipulation was, that my name should be kept out of the newspapers. [5]
- And yet he was not weaker than any single individual down there; aye, and if he chose he could crush them all together, as he would the glow-worm creeping on that window-sill. [10]
- I think there was no individual in the party whose brain was not teeming with thoughts and images and memories invoked by the grand history of the venerable city that lay before us, but still among them all was no "voice of them that wept. [5]
- Although each individual was concerned about his own affairs, one thought, nevertheless, ruled them all--the Emperor Charles, his health, and his decisions. [10]
- She saw a very real, very human individual, clad in a dark nondescript suit of clothes which had been bought ready-made, and plainly without the bestowal of much thought, on Fifth Street. [9]
- She has insisted upon putting the individual in a straitjacket, she has never recognized that growth is the secret of life, that the clothes of one man are binding on another. [9]
- His letter to Twichell is as individual as it is sound in philosophy. [5]
- Now, it is true that the ultimate end of any system of government or civilization should be the improvement of the individual man. [4]
- A great riot took place when an attempt was made by some fastidious and exclusive egotists to introduce partitions which should partially divide one portion of these receptacles into individual compartments. [6]
- But the individual to whom this counsel is given probably has dangerous as well as wholesome instincts. [6]
- His specialty was to tell you what any individual on the face of the globe was doing at the moment; and what he had done at any time in the past, and what he would do at any time in the future. [5]
- I should like to put my eyes on the individual entitled to that name! [6]
- What I mean to indicate by such an extreme instance as this is, that in our very license of individual freedom there is finally a correcting power. [4]
- We don't have to explain to you why we want the union,--it's the only way we'll ever get a say about the conditions in which we work and live, now that the day of individual bargaining is gone by. [9]
- I would attempt to exemplify the influence of individual humors and passions--some of them among the highest, and others certainly the basest that agitate humanity--upon the march of great events, upon general historical results at certain epochs, and upon the destiny of eminent personages. [6]
- It is awful to be in the hands of the wholesale professional dealers in misfortune; undertakers and jailers magnetize you in a moment, and you pass out of the individual life you were living into the rhythmical movements of their horrible machinery. [6]
- Such variations appear to arise from the same unknown causes acting on the cerebral organisation, which induce slight variations or individual differences in other parts of the body; and these variations, owing to our ignorance, are often said to arise spontaneously. [1]
- It was impossible to apply to business an individual code of ethics,--even to Perry's business, to Tom's business: the two were incompatible, and the sooner one recognized that the better: the whole structure of business was built up on natural, as opposed to ethical law. [9]
- Associated insects have thus acquired many remarkable structures, which are of little or no service to the individual, such as the pollen-collecting apparatus, or the sting of the worker-bee, or the great jaws of soldier-ants. [1]
- They seem endless, through odorous pine woods and shady lanes, by private roads among beautiful villas and exquisite grounds, with evidences everywhere of wealth to be sure, but of individual taste and refinement. [4]
- The occurrence of three or more closely connected cases, in the practice of one individual, no others existing in the neighborhood, and no other sufficient cause being alleged for the coincidence, is prima facie evidence that he is the vehicle of contagion. [3]
- To work by this rule in literary criticism is to substitute something definite for the individual tastes, moods, and local bias of the critic. [4]
- The Brahmins carry this idea into the next life, and say that the departing spirit carries with him nothing except this individual character, no acquirements or information or extraneous culture. [4]
- So with other things,--I shifted them round, and got a set of characters who, taken together, reproduced the chief persons of the village where I lived, but did not copy any individual exactly. [6]
- I repeat it, therefore, Do not try to identify the individual Teacups. [6]
- The investigator might then call a dead silence in the assembly, and request each person to talk in a natural voice, then divide the total noise as before, and see what chance of being heard an ordinary individual had in it. [4]
- No one of them is very uncommon; but all together are rarely combined in a single individual, and this is probably the reason why such men as Henry Clay are so rare in the world. [7]
- The poor drew their belts tighter, and the morsel of bread, distributed by the city to each individual, was no longer enough to quiet hunger and support life. [10]
- He says that the world is more complex, varied, and a thousand times as interesting as it was in what we call its youth, and that it is as fresh, as individual and capable of producing odd and eccentric characters as ever. [4]
- Its maps of the surface of the head are, I feel sure, founded on a delusion, but its studies of individual character are always interesting and instructive. [3]
- With respect to the slight individual differences which are common, in a greater or less degree, to all the members of the same species, we have every reason to believe that they are by far the most important for the work of selection. [1]
- Commonly, the cause, the sect, the party, the trade, the delusion, the idea, gets its newspaper, its organ, its advocate, only when some individual thinks he can see a pecuniary return in establishing it. [4]
- Mr. Lincoln considered the question of the highest importance whether an individual had a right to sit in this House or not. [7]
- The experience of the profession must, I think, run parallel with that of the wisest of its individual members. [3]
- If I had the privilege, which unfortunately I have not got, of suggesting things to the legislators in my individual capacity, I would so enjoy the opportunity that I would not charge anything for it at all. [5]
- He lived on the plane of the impulses and intellect, discarded as inhibiting factors what are called moral standards, decried individual discipline and restraint. [9]
- Why, Washington, in the Oriental countries people swarm like the sands of the desert; every square mile of ground upholds its thousands upon thousands of struggling human creatures--and every separate and individual devil of them's got the ophthalmia! [5]
- Tribal punishment is the only proper thing for individual crime. [11]
- Whereas Stavely was the only individual in the entire nation who was not his cousin. [5]
- The first is the naked individual protest; the voice of the inspiration which giveth man understanding. [6]
- In spite of the Maplewood residents, of the City Improvement League and individual protests, we obtained it with absurd ease. [9]
- In such cases the individual must be sacrificed to the common good. [9]
- Here and there the individual is sacrificed who otherwise would be saved --if it were expedient. [11]
- Under such circumstances the gods themselves cannot separate the individual from the multitude; nay, even the innocent animals share the penalty. [10]
- The language of the eyes runs deeper into the personal nature, but it is purely individual, and perishes in the expression. [6]
- It seemed that the equality must be ungenuine where the sign-names of castes were still in vogue; but those sign-names have certainly lost their offence and are wholly neutralized, nullified and harmless if they are the undisputed property of every individual in the nation. [5]
- Such has been the enthusiasm in this devout direction, that I should not be surprised to see our rich private citizens putting up Gothic churches for their individual amusement and sanctification. [4]
- Her instinct for the detection of book-agents, no matter how brisk and businesslike they might appear, was unerring--she remembered faces and the names belonging to them: an individual once observed to be persona non grata never succeeded in passing her twice. [9]
- Unless it is the desire and willingness to strive for a larger interest than the individual interest, work and suffer for others? [9]
- Under this conception the criminal code was arbitrarily constructed, so much punishment being set down opposite each criminal offense, without the least regard to the actual guilt of the man as an individual sinner. [4]
- If you reach the conclusion that Jesus was not a mere individual human person, you reach it through the contemplation of his life and death. [9]
- Criticism which condemns the common-school system as a nurse of superficiality, mediocrity, and conceit does not need serious attention, any more than does the criticism that the universal opportunity of individual welfare offered by a republic fails to make a perfect government. [4]
- You admire what the Americans call scenery; we, since you provoke me to say it, love nature --I mean its individual, almost personal manifestations. [4]
- Ex officio, as the agent of the Chippering Mill and a man of substance to boot, he was "in" politics, hail fellow well met with and an individual to be taken into account by politicians from the governor and member of congress down. [9]
- So it was that she seldom went to church at all; but it was not because of this that her ideas of right and wrong were quite individual and not conventional, as the tale of the matrimonial deserter will show. [11]
- What a pity that Protestantism does not make special provision for all the freaks of individual character! [6]
- We have seen that man incessantly presents individual differences in all parts of his body and in his mental faculties. [1]
- It was $1.20: that is, thirty cents for each individual, or ten cents for each meal and lodging. [4]
- All which proves that I, as an individual of the human family, could write one novel or story at any rate, if I would. [6]
- Each individual felt that he was a fellow-prisoner of his neighbor, and drew closer to companions of his own rank and opinions. [10]
- I think, generally, that fear of open discussion implies feebleness of inward conviction, and great sensitiveness to the expression of individual opinion is a mark of weakness. [6]
- A cynic says that clubs and circles are for the accumulation of superficial information and unloading it on others, without much individual absorption in anybody. [4]
- Also he proved that an ant knows every individual in her hive of five hundred thousand souls. [5]
- Prince Bagration was thanking the individual commanders and inquiring into details of the action and our losses. [2]
- Under this modern tendency toward individual creeds, the Church has split and split again until, if it keeps on, we shall have no Church at all to carry on the work of our Lord on earth. [9]
- His habits and tastes were simple, and little would have sufficed for his individual needs. [4]
- There are trustworthy statistics furnished by Sir Richard Temple and others, which show that the individual Indian's whole annual product, both for export and home use, is worth in gold only $7.50; or, $37.50 for the family-aggregate. [5]
- In the United States, under totally different conditions, and under an economic theory that, whatever its defects on paper, has nevertheless insisted more upon the worth of the individual man, we have had, all the same, a distinctly material development. [4]
- He could only stare in stupid astonishment, and wonder how a single individual could possess such incredible riches. [5]
- He began by speculating as to the possibility of the personal presence of an individual making itself perceived by some channel other than any of the five senses. [6]
- It appears for some years past the planters have been dealing with this individual, and many of them had balances in his hands. [5]
- Is there a single court, or magistrate or individual that would be influenced by it there? [7]
- There are two sides to the life of every man, his individual life, which is the more free the more abstract its interests, and his elemental hive life in which he inevitably obeys laws laid down for him. [2]
- Perhaps the one she witnessed in Milan, when a great nobleman was buried, was longer, but in this every individual seemed to feel genuine grief. [10]
- My mistress, when she was young, knew how to love truly and faithfully, but she was shamefully deceived, and now rancor, not against an individual, but against life, has taken possession of her, and her noble loyalty has become tenacious adherence to bad wishes. [10]
- A proof, had she recognized it, that immorality is not a matter of laws and decrees, but of individual emotions. [9]
- The genius of Shakespeare lay in his power to so use the real and individual facts of life as to raise in the minds of his readers a broader and nobler conception of human life than they had conceived before. [4]
- Why even a Senator's individual opinion withheld, till after the Presidential election? [7]
- It did not seem very strange that if one person in every score or two could not tell red from green there might be other curious individual peculiarities relating to color. [6]
- These individual eccentricities seem to be the special providences in the general human scheme. [4]
- Now do you see that individual going along with a piece of a head-board under his arm, one leg-bone below his knee gone, and not a thing in the world on? [5]
- The effect was secretive, extraordinarily confidential; enabling him to sell sprinklers, it ought to have helped him to make love, so distinctly personal was it, implying as it did that the individual addressed was alone of all the world worthy of consideration. [9]
- The moon had scarcely risen when the boat was stranded at a short distance below Fostat, and the men had to go overboard to push it off to an accompaniment of loud singing which, as it were, welded their individual wills and efforts into one. [10]
- It may be safely said that the English-speaking world and almost every individual of it are different from what they would have been if Shakespeare had never lived. [4]
- We revisit the Rutland Street home many a time in fancy, for we hold every individual in it in happy and grateful memory. [5]
- The application of religion was to-day extending from the individual to society. [9]
- Under the new regime land was held in severalty, and the spur of individual interest began at once to improve the condition of the settlement. [4]
- I do not refer to strongly-marked deviations of structure, which occur only at long intervals of time, but to mere individual differences. [1]
- Diseases should be recognized, as far as possible, not by any of the common names imposed upon them, as fever or epilepsy, but as individual collections of symptoms, each of which differs from every other collection. [3]
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