Use section in a sentence
Sentences starting with section
- Section 3 fronted the Ohio some distance above Bear Grass Creek, and was, of course, on the Illinois shore. [9]
- Section Ten of our Constitution requires that it should be general, if possible. [7]
- Section I. [6]
- Section 3. [6]
- Section 2. [6]
- Section 1. [6]
Sentences ending with section
- I refused, but when I went out on the platform Osgood and the stenographer agreed to accept a section. [5]
- It is impossible to get accurate data as to past crops, etc., as those who know much about the matter have gone, and those who remain are not well versed in the production of this section. [5]
- Do you expect they can recover under that section? [9]
- Farmer Bell had the prize Bartlett pear tree, and the prettiest gal in that section. [9]
- I never saw the man yet who was not startled at looking on this section. [6]
- My son discovered that section. [9]
- I will arrange so that you may transfer yourself to one in the first- class section. [11]
- Why, that our party has no existence in your section--gets no votes in your section. [7]
- I therefore avail myself of this opportunity to assure you, Mr. Mayor, and all the gentlemen present, that I have not now, and never have had, any other than as kindly feelings toward you as to the people of my own section. [7]
- I do not know how much land it takes to raise an average citizen, but I should say a quarter section. [4]
Sentences containing section two or more times
- You who will may look at the plat made by William Clark, Surveyor for the Board of Commissioners, and find sixteen acres marked for Thomas McChesney in Section 169, and two hundred more in Section 3. [9]
- If they produce in one section of the country what is called for, by the wants of another section, and this other section can supply the wants of the first, they are not matters of discord, but bonds of union, true bonds of union. [7]
More example sentences with the word section in them
- If you are, you will probably soon find that we have ceased to be sectional, for we shall get votes in your section this very year. [7]
- In short, that you are the coming man in this section of the state. [9]
- Here's Adam Hunt with his back up, declaring he's a reformer, and all his section of the State behind him. [9]
- The soldiers, of whom there are the most, form the lower section of the cone and its base. [2]
- The tale of which the title is given at the beginning of this section had been written several years before the date of its publication. [6]
- I thought those were large rocks, but they sank into insignificance compared with those which formed another section of the platform. [5]
- The fact that we get no votes in your section is a fact of your making, and not of ours. [7]
- The fact that we get no votes in your section is a fact of your making and not of ours. [7]
- When the chain was all paid out, the candle confirmed my suspicion; a considerable section of the wall was gone, exposing a good big fissure. [5]
- I can't fit up a section of the trenches as a boudoir. [9]
- Then get the towns on the line to issue their bonds for stock, and sell their bonds for enough to complete the road, and partly stock it, especially if we mortgage each section as we complete it. [5]
- By a reference to the tenth section of the Bank charter, any gentleman can see that the framers of the act contemplated the holding of stock in the institutions of other corporations. [7]
- It was found to consist of a hard, smooth, huge object with a rounded summit surmounted by a short upright projection resembling a section of a cabbage stalk divided transversely. [5]
- The jaw in this section is but slightly narrowed,--just enough to make the width of the forehead tell more decidedly. [6]
- If it does, then in case we should, without change of principle, begin to get votes in your section, we should thereby cease to be sectional. [7]
- The soldiers in their greatcoats were ranged in lines, the sergeants major and company officers were counting the men, poking the last man in each section in the ribs and telling him to hold his hand up. [2]
- The army of the Vendee, under Detricand Comte de Tournay, had made a last dash at a small town held by a section of the Republican army, and captured it. [11]
- I take from the top shelf of the hospital department of my library--the section devoted to literary cripples, imbeciles, failures, foolish rhymesters, and silly eccentrics--one of the least conspicuous and most hopelessly feeble of the weak-minded population of that intellectual almshouse. [6]
- I got under the table and raised the blanket, and went to work to saw a section of the big bottom log out--big enough to let me through. [5]
- I know that the seventh section of the charter expressly guarantees to the Bank the right of making, under certain restrictions, such by-laws as it may think fit; and I further know that the requiring an oath of secrecy would not transcend those restrictions. [7]
- You will take the section or go without. [5]
- Another section amid the regimental wagons and horses which were standing in a group was busy getting out caldrons and rye biscuit, and feeding the horses. [2]
- I am for the man who was the first settler on the St. Lawrence and this section of the continent--his history, his tradition, his honour and fame are in the history books of the world. [11]
- Mr. Truesdale was the first, in his section, to be inspired by the happy thought that the one man preeminently fitted to represent the state in the present crisis, when her great industries had been crippled by Democratic folly, was Mr. Theodore Watling. [9]
- Hour by hour, the boat plows deeper and deeper into the great and populous North-west; and with each successive section of it which is revealed, one's surprise and respect gather emphasis and increase. [5]
- Sam Price's were the approved methods in that section of the country, though Sam had overdone them somewhat. [9]
- I do know that there are many lodes in this section that surpass the Sheba in primal assay value. [5]
- It turns out that the astronomical apprentice worked off a section of the Milky Way on me for the Magellan Clouds. [5]
- I add, too, that all the protection which, consistently with the Constitution and the laws, can be given, will be cheerfully given to all the States when lawfully demanded, for whatever cause--as cheerfully to one section as to another. [7]
- It must be studied as a section of anthropology. [6]
- After a short stop we started, and soon came to a section where there were many open fields and cabins thickly scattered about. [5]
- It was in six or seven sections, each section to be used in its turn and by itself; the assault to begin at once with No. [5]
- The eleventh section simply assumes to confer discretionary power upon the executive. [7]
- Even the Manitou section were stilled into sympathy with him. [11]
- Here is a section of the act which permitted the consolidation of the Northeastern Railroads. [9]
- In the following section I shall give some of the general impressions which this excursion has left in my memory, and a few suggestions derived from them. [6]
- To the tenth section I make no objection. [7]
- This is that Section 1: "The Title of Mother. [5]
- A third section scattered through the village arranging quarters for the staff officers, carrying out the French corpses that were in the huts, and dragging away boards, dry wood, and thatch from the roofs, for the campfires, or wattle fences to serve for shelter. [2]
- Toward noon he rose, uncovered his unconscious ward--a section at a time--and took his measure with a string. [5]
- Venters had to rope him, and then he kicked down a section of fence, stood on his hind legs, crashed down and fought the rope. [13]
- It was all right for one of either section to "lick" the other if he could, or for half a dozen to "lick" one of the enemy if they caught him alone. [4]
- He was greatly respected in this section of the country, and his untimely decease cast a gloom over the whole community. [5]
- The conductor had reserved a section for us--it was the best he could do, he said. [5]
- The oath therein required seems to be proper, and the remainder of the section is substantially identical with a law already existing. [7]
- The waiter, who remembered them from year to year, had put them at a window giving a pretty good section of Broadway, and before they set out on their search they had a moment of reminiscence. [8]
- If our principle, put in practice, would wrong your section for the benefit of ours, or for any other object, then our principle, and we with it, are sectional, and are justly opposed and denounced as such. [7]
- As to the proviso to Section 114 I think it was put in to cover possible cases, by way of caution, and not to authorize the J. P. to go forward and finish up whatever might have been begun by him. [7]
- If, as seems probable, the anthropological section of society manages to get round the curse that protects the bones of Shakespeare, I should like to see the dome which rounded itself over his imperial brain. [6]
- An earnest and practical laborer in the New York slums comes up there on vacation--he is leader of a section of the University Settlement. [5]
- That there are persons in one section or another who seek to destroy the Union at all events, and are glad of any pretext to do it, I will neither affirm nor deny; but if there be such, I need address no word to them. [7]
- One could pick out the Indian section of the village, because not far from it was the Indian graveyard, with its scaffolding of poles and brush and its offerings for the dead. [11]
- I put the organization to which it belongs in Section B of Class 1 of my Anglo-American Anthropology (unpublished). [6]
- We base our opinion as to receiving counter-proof upon the unrepealed Section nineteen of the election law in the revised code. [7]
- This Northern section of the land has become a great variety shop, of which the Atlantic cities are the long-extended counter. [6]
- After a deal of ransacking, one was found whose owner was persuadable; he exchanged it for our section, and we got away at last. [5]
- Besides being advocates of bold action, this section also represented nationalism, which made them still more one-sided in the dispute. [2]
- Muddy Pond at N. E. section, well stocked with horn pouts, eels, and shiners. [6]
- If you will look into Roget's Bridgewater Treatise, you will find a figure of one of these shells, and a section of it. [6]
- I shall take it, I hope, in good temper, certainly with no malice toward any section. [7]
- As soon as it was over I showed to Sir Ozana these words which I had written on the inside of his hat: "Chemical Department, Laboratory extension, Section G. Pxxp. [5]
- The discovery of it had dazed him, and the consequences resulting from a successful suit under the section would be so great that he had searched diligently, though in vain, for some modification of it since its enactment. [9]
- Mr. Braden sank into the rocker and fingered a waistcoat pocket full of cigars that looked like a section of a cartridge-belt. [9]
- He went right in to Hilary and showed him the section, told him that suit was going to be brought, and offered to resign. [9]
- As the President in the administration of the Government, I hope to be man enough not to know one citizen of the United States from another, nor one section from another. [7]
- I do therefore, in conformity to the seventh section of the act approved 16th July, 1862, nominate Commander D. D. Porter to be a rear-admiral in the Navy on the active list from the 4th July, 1863, to fill an existing vacancy. [7]
- We have been in a historical section of country all day. [5]
- It is as impossible for one section to impose upon another its rules of taste and propriety in conduct--and taste is often as strong to determine conduct as principle --as it is to make its literature acceptable to the other. [4]
- Further the loss, if any there be, will fall on the citizens of that section of the country. [7]
- By the time I was twenty years old, I really suppose I had raised more poultry than any one individual in all the section round about there. [5]
- That inner vision, however, if it was anything at all was not in blinders, seeing only one section of the life of the world. [11]
- I showed him how, by the alteration of a few words, the difficulty to which he had referred could not only be eliminated, but that certain possible penalties might be evaded, while the apparent meaning of the section remained unchanged. [9]
- With a sigh he turned to his law-books again, and sat for a while staring steadfastly at a section of the 'Act of Consolidation of the Northeastern Railroads' which he had stumbled on that morning. [9]
- At Speranski's request he took the first part of the Civil Code that was being drawn up and, with the aid of the Code Napoleon and the Institutes of Justinian, he worked at formulating the section on Personal Rights. [2]
- The section, if he read its meaning aright, was fraught with the gravest consequences for the Northeastern Railroads; if he read its meaning aright, the Northeastern Railroads had been violating it persistently for many years and were liable for unknown sums in damages. [9]
- Jim was the handsomest man in that section. [9]
- We may have found this condemned army bacon further out on the plains than the section I am locating it in, but we found it--there is no gainsaying that. [5]
- Then is the fact established that huge forests once cast their grim shadows over this remote section. [5]
- He began by expressing a real feeling of modesty in addressing an audience "this side of the mountains," a part of the country where, in the opinion of the people of his section, everybody was supposed to be instructed and wise. [7]
- The Brook Farm experiment was an index of the state of mind among one section of the Reformers of whom he was writing. [6]
- Now I don't doubt that this odd costume you talk about is the fashion in that district of heaven you belong to, but you won't be conspicuous in this section without it. [5]
- Who's going to dig up that section? [9]
- In each section differences of speech, of habits of thought, of temperament prevail. [4]
- We moved the desk to the very front of the platform, and erected behind it a high, square board screen, like a section of tight fence round the fair-grounds. [4]
- There's been a cut-off in that section, and Vicksburg is left out in the cold. [5]
- The excitement it caused has rarely been equalled in that section, but I believe this was due less to its sensational features than to Mr. Cooke, who had an abnormal though unconscious talent for self-advertisement. [9]
- One night we catched a little section of a lumber raft--nice pine planks. [5]
- Stewart Ruttan, the Cadi, was the new magistrate at Windowie and Gilgan, which stand for a huge section of the Carpentaria country. [11]
- It was suggested by them that through such postponement we might now have immediate peace, with some not very certain prospect of an ultimate satisfactory adjustment of political relations between this Government and the States, section, or people now engaged in conflict with it. [7]
- He thinks the business section will grow that way. [9]
- This gorge--along whose bottom pours the swift Neckar --is confined between (or cloven through) a couple of long, steep ridges, a thousand feet high and densely wooded clear to their summits, with the exception of one section which has been shaved and put under cultivation. [5]
- We hope and believe that in no section will a majority so act as to render such extreme measures necessary. [7]
- He was not aware that any man or any party, from any section of the Union, had ever urged as an objection to Mr. Clay that he was the great champion of the Missouri Compromise. [7]
- It has been ascertained what is the area of the cross section of this stream and the area of the face of the piers, and the engineers say that the piers being put there will increase the current proportionally as the space is decreased. [7]
- I've come to appeal to you in behalf of the people of your section to allow that franchise to go through the present Legislature. [9]
- It is odd, almost amusing, to note how in this country people of one section apply their local standards to the judgment of people in other sections, very much as an Englishman uses his insular yardstick to measure all the rest of the world. [4]
- His family own a section of the state, where they've had woollen mills for a hundred years, more or less. [9]
- I met with a reference which led me to look over a file of the Giornale degli Ospitali lying among the old pamphlets in the medical section of the Library. [6]
- Twelve feet and a half round, fair girth;--nine feet, where I got my section, higher up. [6]
- Do you know a good many consciences in this section? [5]
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