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This great collection of English sentences will help students and writers learn English phrases and Idioms and their usage by examples from world's top literature. There are some 1,200+ idioms with 20,000+ sentence examples in the database complied from top 98 selected books written by the 83 world famous authors.
The database is available in MS Excel 2007 (.xlsx) format and MS Access 2007 (.accdb) database format. This product can be used for personal use; learning or research purpose; or as content for application, blog or website (please check out details in the 'Specific Terms and Conditions'.
Definition of Idioms are also available. Length of the example sentences are between 30 and 128 characters. Being less than 140 characters twitter limits, these sentence examples are suitable for twits. Sentences were compiled from the following sources:
| Book Title | Author |
| A Christmas Carrol | Charles Dickens |
| A Prayer for Owen Meany | John Winslow Irving |
| A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens |
| A Town Like Alice | Nevil Shute |
| Alice in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll |
| Animal Farm | George Orwell |
| Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy |
| Artemis Fowl | Eoin Colfer |
| Black Beauty | Anna Sewell |
| Brideshead Revisited | Evelyn Waugh |
| Bridget Jones's Diary | Helen Fielding |
| Captain Corelli's Mandolin | Louis de Bernieres |
| Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | Roald Dahl |
| Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| David Copperfield | Charles Dickens |
| Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes |
| Dracula | Bram Stoker |
| Dubliners | James Joyce |
| Emma | Jane Austen |
| Eugenie Grandet | Honore de Balzac |
| Frankenstein or the Modern Prom | Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) |
| Gone With the Wind | Margaret Mitchell |
| Good Night Mr. Tom | Michelle Magorian |
| Good Omens | Terry Pratchett |
| Great Expectations | Charles Dickens |
| Grimm's Fairy Stories | Pub. by the Grimm brothers |
| Gulliver's Travels | Jonathan Swift |
| Heidi | Johanna Spyri |
| Holes | Louis Sachar |
| Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain |
| Jane Eyre | Charlotte Bronte |
| Kane And Abel | Jeffrey Archer |
| Les Misrables | Victor Hugo |
| Little Women | Louisa May Alcott |
| Lord of the Flies | Arthur P. Ziegler Jr. |
| Love in the Time of Cholera | Grabriel Garcia Marquez |
| Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert |
| Memoirs of a Geisha | Arthur Golden |
| Memoirs of Fanny Hill | John Cleland |
| Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| Metamorphosis | Franz Kafka |
| Middlemarch | George Eliot |
| Midnight's children | Salman Rushdie |
| Moby Dick | Herman Mellville |
| Nineteen Eighty-Four | George Orwell |
| Northanger Abbey | Jane Austen |
| Nostromo | Joseph Conrad |
| Notes from the Underground | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
| Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck |
| Oliver Twist | Charles Dickens |
| Paradise Lost | John Milton |
| Pinocchio | Carlo Collodi |
| Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen |
| Rebecca | Daphne Du Maurier |
| Siddhartha | Hermann Hesse |
| Tales of Terror and Mystery | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| Tess of the D'urbervilles | Thomas Hardy |
| The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Mark Twain |
| The Autumn of the Patriarch | Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
| The Call of the Wild | Jack London |
| The Catcher in the Rye | Jeff Marsden |
| The Chronicles of Narnia | C. S. Lewis |
| The Colour of Magic | Terry Pratchett |
| The Count of Monte Cristo | Alexandre Dumas |
| The Da Vinci Code | Dan Brown |
| The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| The Hitchhikers Guide To The Ga | Vladimir Romanov |
| The Jungle | Upton Sinclair |
| The Jungle Book | Rudyard Kipling |
| The Last of the Mohicans | James Fenimore Cooper |
| The Legend of Sleepy Hollow | Washington Irving |
| The Lord of the Rings | JRR Tolkien |
| The Lost World | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| The Moonstone | Wilkie Collins |
| The Phantom of the Opera | Gaston Leroux |
| The Picture of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde |
| The Pilgrim's Progress | John Bunyan |
| The Provost | John Galt |
| The Ragged Trousered Philanthro | Robert Tressell |
| The Return of Sherlock Holmes | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| The Scarlet Letter | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| The Stand | Stephen King |
| The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| The Thirty-nine Steps | John Buchan |
| The Thorn Birds | Colleen Mc Cullough |
| The Turn of the Screw | Henry James |
| The War of the Worlds | H. G. Wells |
| The Wind in the Willows | Kenneth Grahame |
| The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | L. Frank Baum |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee |
| Treasure Island | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea | Jules Verne |
| Ulysses | James Joyce |
| Vanity Fair | William Makepeace Thackeray |
| War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy |
| Watership Down | Richard Adams |
| World without End | Ken Follet |
| Wuthering Heights | Emily Bronte |
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Data is presented in the following structure:
In addition to the above structure, idiom definitions are also available in normalized form in the database as below:
| Field | Data Type | Description |
| Idiom | Character (60) | Common English Phrases and Idioms |
| Idiom Definition | Character (255) | Definitions of the Idiom, sometimes from multiple sources |
| Sentence | Character (128) | Sentences are between 30 and 128 character long |
| Book Title | Character (100) | Source of the example sentence |
| Author | Character (100) | Author of the book |
| Field | Data Type | Description |
| Idiom | Character (60) | Common English Phrases and Idioms |
| Idiom Definition | Character (255) | Definitions of the idiom, sometimes from multiple sources |
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| File Format | MS Excel 2007 Spread Sheet, MS Access 2007 Database | ||||||||||||||||
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| Format Details | The database is available in MS Excel 2007 (.xlsx) format and MS Access 2007 (.accdb) database format. Other formats may be available on request. An additional fee may be applicable for additional file format. | ||||||||||||||||
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There are some 1,200+ idioms with 20,000+ sentence examples in the database complied from top 98 selected books written by the 83 world famous authors. |
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| File Size | Approx 2.5 MB Zipped | ||||||||||||||||
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Please note that, there could be a tiny percentage of example sentences that may not be relevant to the Idiom. This may happen because all 20,000+ sentences have not yet been fully checked. We will review and update the product in future. Until then please apply your judgement in such instances of error.
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| Key Phrases | top english phrases, top english idioms, phrases and idioms, learn with examples, top world literature, learn idioms, example sentences, learn english, common english phrases | ||||||||||||||||
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| Idiom | Idiom Definition | Sentence | Book Title | Author |
| a breach of promise | the breaking of a promise which may also be a breach of contract | TOO MUCH, I am afraid; for what becomes of the moral, if our comfort springs from a breach of promise? | Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen |
| a great deal | much; a lot | A young woman who was selling numbers for the raffle of an accordion greeted him with a great deal of familiarity. | The Autumn of the Patriarch | Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
| a great deal | much; a lot | One can forgive a great deal for the sake of such moments. | Notes from the Underground | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
| spitting image | exact resemblance | This short dialogue reveals that in my mania for the Nautilus, I was turning into the spitting image of its commander. | Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea | Jules Verne |
| stand a chance | have a possibility | When they get here you won't stand a chance. | Watership Down | Richard Adams |
| wrapped up in | thinking about or interested only in one thing | I saw it lying there wrapped up in paper. | Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| wrapped up in | thinking about or interested only in one thing | Amaranta was too wrapped up in the eggplant patch of her memories to understand those subtle apologetics. | The Autumn of the Patriarch | Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
| carry on | continue; keep doing something as before | Not a napkin should he carry on his arm, but a buckler. | Moby Dick | Herman Mellville |
| carry on | continue; keep doing something as before | We wouldn't have a brother any more, then, but we could carry on with our lives and remember him with respect. | Metamorphosis | Franz Kafka |
| down the line | straight ahead; in the future | Jurgis went down the line with the rest of the visitors, staring openmouthed, lost in wonder. | The Jungle | Upton Sinclair |
| down the line | straight ahead; in the future | They walked swiftly down the line of carriages, glancing in at the windows, until the guard, John Palmer, overtook them. | Tales of Terror and Mystery | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| in the hole | in debt; owing money | It was dark in the hole; and Rikki-tikki never knew when it might open out and give Nagaina room to turn and strike at him. | The Jungle Book | Rudyard Kipling |
| in the hole | in debt; owing money | He hardly dared to look at what was framed in the hole in the sheet. | Midnight's children | Salman Rushdie |
| in the saddle | in command; in control | Jos, a clumsy and timid horseman, did not look to advantage in the saddle. | Vanity Fair | William Makepeace Thackeray |
| in the saddle | in command; in control | in the saddle, miles away from the homestead; camping at nightPaddy and the boys loved it. | The Thorn Birds | Colleen Mc Cullough |
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