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This comprehensive collection of English sentences will help students and writers learn English vocabulary and usage by examples from world's top literature. There are some 2,800+ selected words with 28,000+ sentence examples in the database complied from top 98 selected books written by the 83 world famous authors.
Top English words in this database are carefully collected words that are frequently appeared on various exam lists including GRE, TOEFL, etc. Selections are based on the lists prepared by various authorities that includes but not limited to Arco, Kaplan, Princeton, etc. The database is available in MS Excel 2007 (.xlsx) format and MS Access 2007 (.accdb) database format.
The database 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'.
Words definition and parts of speech 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 very 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, word definitions are also available in normalized form in the database as below:
| Field | Data Type | Description |
| Word | Character (20) | Top words selected by various Authorities |
| Part of Speech | Character (10) | Part of speech of the word |
| Word Definition | Character (255) | Definitions of the word, sometimes from multiple sources |
| Sentence | Character (128) | Senetences are between 30 and 128 charater long |
| Book Title | Character (100) | Source of the example sentence |
| Author | Character (100) | Author of the book |
| Field | Data Type | Description |
| Word | Character (20) | Top words selected by various Authorities |
| Part of Speech | Character (10) | Part of speech of the word |
| Word Definition | Character (255) | Definitions of the word, 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 2,800+ selected words with 28,000+ sentence examples in the database complied from top 98 selected books written by the 83 world famous authors. |
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Please note that, there could be a tiny percentage of example sentences that may not be relevant to the word. This may happen because all 28,000+ sentences have not yet been fully checked. We will update the products as we do so in future. An example of such instance is as follows:
viola - (n. a musical instrument somewhat larger than a violin.) - Viola coughed, turning his face away from the dust, and shaking his head slightly. (from Nostromo -- by Joseph Conrad)
Obviously the viola in this example is a person not an instrument. Although such mistake is rare, but these do exist. Therefore, please apply your judgement in such cases.
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| Word | Part of Speech | Word Definition | Sentence | Book Title | Author |
| abate | v. | to lessen, to subside | And as he laughed, the pain in his joints began to abate. | The Stand | Stephen King |
| abbey | n. | the group of buildings which collectively form the dwelling-place of a society of monks or nuns. | Was there any picture of her in the abbey? | Northanger Abbey | Jane Austen |
| abeyance | cn. | suspended action | Time was in abeyance on the ship's clocks . | Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea | Jules Verne |
| abide | v. | be faithful; to endure | At last luck seemed to settle and abide with Joe. | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Mark Twain |
| effluvia | pn. | outflow in a stream of particles a noxious odor or vapor | All the rotting effluvia of the seashore rolled into one smell. | The Thorn Birds | Colleen Mc Cullough |
| menace | n. | a threat. | This menace smothered the young man's passion. | The Count of Monte Cristo | Alexandre Dumas |
| pantomime | n. | sign-language. | They illustrated their meaning with pantomime. | A Town Like Alice | Nevil Shute |
| partisan | one-sided committed to a party biased or prejudiced | The partisan warfare flamed up most fiercely in the latter days of October. | War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy | |
| parley | v. | to converse in. | Before he could shut the door, however, the doctor had passed into the parlour, without a word of parley. | Oliver Twist | Charles Dickens |
| rampart | n. | a bulwark or construction to oppose assault or hostile entry. | On the fourth day fires broke out on the Zubovski rampart. | War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy |
| sociable | adj. | inclined to seek company. | They weren't exactly a sociable group. | Artemis Fowl | Eoin Colfer |
| unbelief | n. | doubt. | I believe, O Lord, help my unbelief. | Ulysses | James Joyce |
| wield | v. | to use, control, or manage, as a weapon, or instrument, especially with full command. | How long shall they wield unlawful power? | War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy |
| zenith | pn. | highest point on the imaginary celstial sphere, antonym of nadir | The sun was in its zenith and the wind had ceased. | Heidi | Johanna Spyri |
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