Eveline by James Joyce

Footsteps

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Footsteps is a noun.

Meaning: A footstep is the sound or mark that is made by someone walking each time their foot touches the ground.

The original sentence: “She heard his footsteps clacking along the concrete pavement and afterwards crunching on the cinder path before the new red houses.”

Sentences:

Julia took many footsteps to get to this place.

He heard footsteps in the house.

Juan is noisy with his footsteps.

We need to follow that footsteps to enter the supermarket.

Shining

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Shining is an adjective.

Meaning: Achievement or quality is a very good one which should be greatly admired.

The original sentence: “Not like their little brown houses, but bright brick houses with shining roofs.” 

Sentences:

Maria, your clothes are very shining.

The sun is very shining today.

Your necklace is so shinning.

You have a shinning smile.

Squander

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Squander is a verb.

Meaning: To waste money or supplies, or to waste opportunities by not using them to your advantage.

The original sentence: “He said she used to squander the money, that she had no head, that he wasn’t going to give her his hard-earned money to throw about the streets.”

Sentences:

Juan always squander the money on video games.

The team squandered its chance to go top of the division.

My sister squander a lot of time on Facebook.

I squandered much time when a went to the mall.

Forbidden 

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Forbidden is an adjective

Meaning: Not allowed, especially by law. 

The original sentence: “Her father had found out the affair and had forbidden her to have anything to say to him.”

Sentences:

We went to the library, it is forbidden to sing in that place.

Swimming is forbidden in this area due to the danger of shark attacks.

It's totally forbidden running through the forest at night.

You have forbidden to eat food with much sugar.

Sickroom

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Sickroom is a noun

Meaning: Is a room in which a sick person is lying in bed.

The original sentence: “She remembered her father strutting back into the sickroom, saying.”

Sentences:

The sickroom is very dirty.

My mom is in the sickroom.

The hospital has many sickrooms.

This sickroom is small.

 

Cripple

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Cripple is an adjective.

Meaning: A person with a severe limitation of a specified kind.

The original sentence: “The children of the avenue used to play together in that field — the Devines, the Waters, the Dunn's, little Keogh the cripple, she and her brothers and sisters. Ernest, however, never played: he was too grown up.”

Sentences:

The poor man has been a cripple since birth.

I cripple in my right arm.

Daniel is a cripple since he had an accident.

These space is for cripple person.

                                                              

Wise

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Cripple is an adjective.

Meaning: Having or showing experience, knowledge, and good judgement.

The original sentence: "Was that wise? She tried to weigh each side of the question."

Sentences:

Thales of Miletus was a wise man from Greece.

Juan is very wise with his advice.

My grandfather is a wise man.

The owl is the wisest animal.

Tightly

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Tightly is an adverb.

Meaning: Closely and firmly.

The original sentence: "Then she had to rush out as quickly as she could and do her marketing, holding her black leather purse tightly in her hand as she elbowed her way through the crowds and returning home late under her load of provisions."

Sentences:

This place is very tightly.

The shirt is very tightly on me.

My hand gripped tightly on to the knife.

The baby was clutching his toy tightly.

Elbowed

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Elbowed is a verb.

Meaning: Push or strike (someone) with one's elbow.

The original sentence:“Then she had to rush out as quickly as she could and do her marketing, holding her black leather purse tightly in her hand as she elbowed her way through the crowds and returning home late under her load of provisions.”

Sentences:

I can't believe you elbowed me in the face.

Andrea elbowed me in protest.

One player had elbowed another in the face.

She elbowed me in the ribs.

Portholes

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Porthole is a noun.

Meaning: A small window on the outside of a ship or aircraft.

The original sentence:“Through the wide doors of the sheds she caught a glimpse of the black mass of the boat, lying in beside the quay wall, with illumined portholes.”

Sentences:

Everyone dropped their food and ran to the portholes.

More portholes windows, uncovered this time.

All ships have portholes.

The glass in many of the portholes are strong.