Sample sentences for UNANIMOUS

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Definition

with everyone in agreement

It was a unanimous decision.

unanimous = with everyone in complete agreement

The chairperson encouraged the committee to come up with a statement they could agree to unanimously.

unanimously = with complete agreement

Mrs. Dubose lived two doors up the street from us; neighborhood opinion was unanimous that Mrs. Dubose was the meanest old woman who ever lived.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

unanimous = agreed upon by everyone

The bosses were unanimous, however, in voting down Papi's next raise.
Junot Diaz -- Drown
Caribou were becoming scarce to the point of rarity, and wolves were unanimously held to be to blame.
Farley Mowat -- Never Cry Wolf
The shout was unanimous and hearty.
Mark Twain -- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
"The choice was unanimous," Luke announced.
Rick Riordan -- The Lightning Thief
"Carried unanimously," I repeated, going on with my work.
Charles Dickens -- Bleak House
Since these are criminal proceedings, understand, your verdict—whether guilty or not so—must be a unanimous one.
David Guterson -- Snow Falling on Cedars
Two days ago, the Secretariat Council voted unanimously to revoke the Vatican's sanction of Opus Dei.
Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code
In the end, the recommendation from the transplant committee was unanimous.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Best of Me
The unanimous selection was Cabin Gulch.
Zane Grey -- The Border Legion
JUDGE The jury's decision is unanimous.
Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee -- Inherit the Wind
Sorry, forget all that, I meant mountain falling, the Grand Prix Hindu Crash, awarded unanimously to Sherpa Marcus the Unsteady.
Marcus Luttrell -- Lone Survivor
There was unanimous, automatic, unquestioned agreement...nor did I ever hear the slightest suggestion that we should do otherwise.
James Bradley -- Flags of Our Fathers
To which they unanimously replied, "That they would fight to their last drop of blood."
Daniel Defoe -- Robinson Crusoe
My friends led me to believe that the people of Nebraska were almost unanimously against me.
John F. Kennedy -- Profiles in Courage
In the Seleznevsky district Sviazhsky was elected unanimously without a ballot, and he gave a dinner that evening.
Leo Tolstoy -- Anna Karenina
The Professor with these words ceased his oration, and I burst forth into loud and "unanimous" applause.
Jules Verne -- A Journey to the Center of the Earth
Six months later, by unanimous agreement, Florentino Ariza was named President of the Board of Directors and General Manager of the company.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Love in the Time of Cholera

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