Use style in a sentence
Sentences ending with style
- He finds good writing and sound philosophy, passages of great force and beauty of expression, marred by obscurity, under assumptions and faults of style. [6]
- Anybody but pap would a waited and seen the day through, so as to catch more stuff; but that warn't pap's style. [5]
- Among the guests who thronged to her house there was no lack of elderly gentlemen who would gladly have married the vivacious, unusual woman, who was so nearly connected with the royal family, and lived in such luxurious style. [10]
- He spoke in what the 'Baltimore American' calls the "scathing and withering style. [7]
- I hardly knew what I was going to talk about, but it went off in splendid style. [5]
- The original nucleus was the Methodist camp-meeting, which, in the season, brought here twenty thousand to thirty thousand people at a time, who camped and picnicked in a somewhat primitive style. [4]
- It was the twins, knocking out a classic four-handed piece on the piano in great style. [5]
- But you could treat it in the historical spirit--like something that happened several centuries ago; De Foe's Plague of London style. [8]
- We don't pretend to style. [5]
- The others got tired and give it up; but not Tom Sawyer--that warn't his style. [5]
Short sentences using style
- Pity but style was marketable. [5]
- More style about the Presbyterians. [4]
- It was his style. [9]
- Veneers in first-rate style. [6]
- Roast turkey, Thanksgiving style. [5]
- It's not my style. [5]
- Hot wheat-bread, Southern style. [5]
- Hot light-bread, Southern style. [5]
- Hot hoe-cake, Southern style. [5]
- Hot egg-bread, Southern style. [5]
Sentences containing style two or more times
- Yes, there is such a thing as style, good and bad; and the style should be the writer's own and characteristic of him, as his speech is. [4]
- Naylor had a polished style and a happy knack at felicitous metaphor; Norris's style was wholly without ornament, but enviably compact, lucid, and strong. [5]
- Its style was peculiar,--almost as unlike that of his Essays as that of Carlyle's "Sartor Resartus" was unlike the style of his "Life of Schiller. [6]
- McClintock is always McClintock, he is always consistent, his style is always his own style. [5]
- But the moment I admire a style for its own sake, a style that attracts my attention so constantly that I say, How good that is! [4]
- It is, perhaps, his defective style more than anything else which will prevent his becoming a classic, for style above all other qualities seems to embalm for posterity. [6]
- The movement has a delightful spontaneity, and it is wanting in none of the charms of his style, unless, perhaps, the style is over-refined; but it was not a novelty, and the public began to criticise and demand a new note. [4]
More example sentences with the word style in them
- There was another young lady who taught French, of the ahvaung and baundahng style, which does not exactly smack of the asphalt of the Boulevards. [6]
- In marrying us you style us, 'the mistress of the house,' and if the elders of the citizens grow infirm, in this country it is not the sons but the daughters that must be their mainstay. [10]
- Which style do you like best? [6]
- As for style, you can't mistake a man who is dressed in New York. [4]
- Please walk thirty yards, so that I can get a perspective on the thing.... Now, then--your head's right, speed's right, shoulders right, eyes right, chin right, gait, carriage, general style right--everything's right! [5]
- Of course he would a throwed more style into it, but I can't do that very handy, not being brung up to it. [5]
- It was not without a little shock that King heard the good points, the style, the physical perfections, of Irene so fully commented on, and not without some alarm that he heard predicted for her a very successful career as a belle. [4]
- Furnished, of course, with letters of introduction to the most distinguished individuals, and with the still more influential recommendation of his own reputation, he was received in full drawing- room style and state from one end of the Union to the other. [5]
- He was satisfied with his wealth, but not proud of it; and piqued himself upon the hearty abundance rather than the style in which he lived. [4]
- I have sat with him by the hour listening to Jim Nye's yarns, and I reckon you know the style of Jim Nye's histories, Clemens. [5]
- He brought home with him a suit of clothes of such exquisite style and cut in fashion--Eastern fashion, city fashion--that it filled everybody with anguish and was regarded as a peculiarly wanton affront. [5]
- But, hereafter, I will turn me sadly away and say; "This does not answer--this isn't the style of king that I am acquainted with. [5]
- The guests in whom we may have some interest were in the mean time making ready for the party, which was expected to be a brilliant one; for 24 Carat Place was well known for the handsome style of its entertainments. [6]
- She could live wherever she pleased, and her dowry, with what she had saved, would be ample to support her and Maria, in the city or the country, in a style suited to their rank. [10]
- The style of what you call your "Prelude" shows that it was written under cerebral excitement. [6]
- He told me what it was, and I see in a minute it was worth fifteen of mine for style, and would make Jim just as free a man as mine would, and maybe get us all killed besides. [5]
- The Seigneur's remarks were highly critical, till, with a few hasty strokes on brown paper, Charley sketched in his figure with a long overcoat in style much the same as his undercoat, stately and flowing and confined at the waist. [11]
- The editorial, which was written by Mr. Olin Brad, and was in his best Macaulay style, began somewhat humorously by alluding to the curious interest of the public in ancient history, citing Mr. Froude and Mr. Carlyle, and the legend of Casper Hauser. [4]
- His journalistic style was climbing, steadily; it was already up to the back settlement Alabama mark, and couldn't be told from the editorial output of that region either by matter or flavor. [5]
- The State House was a building with much pretension to beauty, built in the classical style, of a yellow stone, with sold white blinds in the high windows and mighty columns capped at the gently slanting roof. [9]
- There is not wanting even a lake; and there is, I am sorry to say, a temple on a mound, quite in the classic style, from which one can see the sun set behind the many spires of Munich. [4]
- And the style Wald--or wood--Stromer is to be set down to the fact that this branch had, from a long past time, heretofore held the dignity of Rangers of the great forest which is the pride of Nuremberg to this very day. [10]
- What was the use of getting him up in that tragic style for so innocent a trade as his? [5]
- So he gave up at last, and left the king in possession of his style unimpaired. [5]
- If one take up a Northern or Southern literary periodical of forty or fifty years ago, he will find it filled with wordy, windy, flowery 'eloquence,' romanticism, sentimentality--all imitated from Sir Walter, and sufficiently badly done, too--innocent travesties of his style and methods, in fact. [5]
- He could not understand where she got her style, her way of dress, her enunciation, her easy manners. [6]
- The grotto was tricked out in the usual tasteless style observable in all the holy places of Palestine. [5]
- Such delicacy of treatment, with such breadth and force of effect, is hard to match anywhere, and we know him by his style at sight. [6]
- You can't throw too much style into a miracle. [5]
- But it is too much in the style of Cowper's unpleasant acquaintance: "The man who hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumping on your back How he esteems your merit. [6]
- So he went to work to take the style out of his sacred majesty. [5]
- He had thrilled to the archaic but clear-hearted style of the old German chronicler, and the warmth he felt had passed into his voice, so that it became louder. [11]
- This waistcoat seemed to him of foreign make and peculiar style, but what endeared it to him was its row of metal buttons. [4]
- These qualities, added to her peculiar style of beauty, which excited his admiration from its rare novelty, half Egyptian half Greek, (her mother having been a Greek), had not failed to make a deep impression on him. [10]
- And we'll want to do these weddings up in the very regalest style that's going. [5]
- It is beginning to be discovered that the Gothic sort of church edifice is fatal to the Congregational style of worship that has been prevalent here in New England; but it will do nicely (as they say in Boston) for private devotion. [4]
- One at a time the contestants enter, clothed regardless of expense in what each considers the perfection of style and taste, and walk down the vacant central space and back again with that multitude of critical eyes on them. [5]
- And wouldn't he throw style into it? [5]
- Or go rather through the great archway, and under the teeth of the portcullis, into the irregular quadrangle, whose buildings mark the changing style and fortune of successive centuries, from 1300 down to the seventeenth century? [4]
- A wide gap through miles of woods had opened this distant view, and showed more, perhaps, than all the labors of the architect and the landscape-gardener the large style of the early Dudleys. [6]
- Egger was the thriving man of the region, and lived in style in a big brick house. [4]
- On their journeys those Britons were used to long fasts, and knew how to bear them; and also how to freight up against probable fasts before starting, after the style of the Indian and the anaconda. [5]
- Think of meeting this style of obstruction in a narrow trail. [5]
- What style is this called, Monsieur? [11]
- He means, by these words, something like the Archxus of Van Helmont, of which he discourses in a style wonderfully resembling that of Mr. Jenkinson in the "Vicar of Wakefield. [3]
- What's left is these two lots here--just the gem of the whole patch for general style and outlook; they're for me and my folks, and you and yourn. [5]
- The style of these theologico-medical communications may be seen in the following from a divine who was also professor in one of the colleges of New England. [6]
- Besides, I've listened these seven years to his style. [11]
- The line of these comfortable dwellings, once so fashionable, was continually broken by the facades of shops; and March professed himself vulgarized by a want of style in the people they met in their walk to Twenty-third Street. [8]
- The expressman was there, hard at work,--a plain man of fifty, with a simple, honest, good-natured face, and a breezy, practical heartiness in his general style. [5]
- By and by there was a burst of shouts and cheers outside and the prince with his train entered in fine dramatic style. [5]
- Not only was there this steady growth of intellect, but the infinite delicacy of his nature and its capacity for refinement developed also, as exhibited in the purity and perfection of his language and style of speech. [7]
- Judging merely by their general style, and without other evidence, one might easily suspect that self-righteousness was their specialty. [5]
- The top of the Trunk is arched; the arch is a perfect half-circle, in the Roman style of architecture, for in the then rapid decadence of Greek art, the rising influence of Rome was already beginning to be felt in the art of the Republic. [5]
- I said that the trouble, delay, and inconvenience of traveling with a courier were balanced by the deep respect which a courier's presence commands, and I must insist that as much style be thrown into my journeys as possible. [5]
- That is about the style of conscience I am pining for. [5]
- Its finest street, the Maximilian, built by the late king of that name, is of a novel and wholly modern style of architecture, not an imitation, though it may remind some of the new portions of Paris. [4]
- We swung through the gate in great style, with a vast accession of noise, the most of which was laughter, and soon our van was over the river and moving down against the Tourelles. [5]
- The style of the forty pages is loose and feeble and 'prentice-like. [5]
- Deliver us from the didactic and the everlastingly improving style of thing! [4]
- They called him the Bastille sometimes, and sometimes they called him Hellfire, which was on account of his warm and sumptuous style in battle, and you know they wouldn't have given him pet names if they hadn't had a good deal of affection for him. [5]
- During, and after the 20th dynasty, the style declined in beauty; in the 26th, under the descendants of Psammetichus, we meet with a last revival of art, but the ancient purity of form was never again attained. [10]
- When I say that that village is of the usual style, I mean to insinuate that all Syrian villages within fifty miles of Damascus are alike--so much alike that it would require more than human intelligence to tell wherein one differed from another. [5]
- It is this that makes his style unique, and entitles it to a name of its own--McClintockian. [5]
- Somebody has said that in order to know a community, one must observe the style of its funerals and know what manner of men they bury with most ceremony. [5]
- Just so, in talking with any of the characters above referred to, one not unfrequently finds a sudden change in the style of the conversation. [6]
- They were always talking in the Row, everlastingly gossiping, bantering and sarcastically praising things, and going on in a style which was a curious commingling of earnest and persiflage. [5]
- It is thoroughly Syrian, and that is to say that it is thoroughly ugly, and cramped, squalid, uncomfortable, and filthy--just the style of cities that have adorned the country since Adam's time, as all writers have labored hard to prove, and have succeeded. [5]
- The "point and surprise" which he speaks of as characterizing the style of Plutarch belong eminently to his own. [6]
- It would not suit the rules of art, nor of my own feelings; to write in that style. [14]
- Opposite stands another successful imitation of the Grecian style of architecture,--a building with a Corinthian porch, also of white marble. [4]
- Hot biscuits, Southern style. [5]
- Fried chicken, Southern style. [5]
- Broiled chicken, American style. [5]
- Apple puffs, Southern style. [5]
- For show, and style, and grandeur, and thunder and lightning and fireworks it outclasses all the previous inventions of man, and raises the limit on the Pope. [5]
- Johnson, Samuel, literary style, 29. [6]
- Peach cobbler, Southern style Peach pie. [5]
- A very different style of man, and lived in a very good house. [5]
- By the different style of living I can tell when I cross the line between Connecticut and New York as certainly as when I cross the line between Vermont and Canada. [4]
- The look and style of his comrades suggested that they had not come into the war to play, and their deeds made good the conjecture later. [5]
- It was enormous style for those days. [5]
- There is no style about them, except in house and furniture. [5]
- The house is strictly in the old Spanish style, of one story about a large court, with flowers and a fountain, in which are the most noisy if not musical frogs in the world, and all the interior rooms opening upon a gallery. [4]
- And that's the story, Marmion, which I brought you to hear--told, as you notice, in fine classical style. [11]
- It was a splendid building in the style of a fortress, and so inaccessibly placed that it had been fixed on as the royal treasure-house. [10]
- His style of speech and manner of delivery were severely simple. [7]
- Bacon and greens, Southern style. [5]
- That ain't no sort of style. [5]
- We can make something of a guess at a man's character by the style of nose he carries on his face. [5]
- The matter of simplicity, then, comes into literary style, into building, into dress, into life, individualized always by one's personality. [4]
- Of pictures, I should like to own Titians and Raphaels three or four,-- I love so much their style and tone,-- One Turner, and no more,-- (A landscape,--foreground golden dirt The sunshine painted with a squirt. [6]
- Oysters roasted in shell-Northern style. [5]
- But it ain't shabby--no shanty-farm business; nice brick and frame houses, some of 'em Queen Anne style, and all of 'em looking as if they had come to stay. [8]
- If you would see a fair average style of assorted cripples, go to Naples, or travel through the Roman States. [5]
- It was the same blue, and it was near the same style of the dress she wore the last time he saw her. [11]
- There was not room for side-whiskers and epaulets both, and so I let the whiskers go, and put in the epaulets, for the sake of style. [5]
- Other mansions--like the Rockingham House in Portsmouth (look at the white horse's tail before you mount the broad staircase)--show that there was not only wealth, but style and state, in these quiet old towns during the last century. [6]
- Early rose potatoes, roasted in the ashes, Southern style, served hot. [5]
- How is Porto Rico for his style of man? [5]
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