Sample sentences for AUXILIARY

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Definition

functioning in a subsidiary or supporting capacity

We have an auxiliary power system in case of a blackout.

the main library and its auxiliary branches
The mind and emotions are auxiliary to each other
Horses, we'll need horses from the auxiliary Guard stable," he whispered.
Ted Dekker -- Red: The Heroic Rescue
The State courts will be natural auxiliaries to the execution of the laws of the Union.
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers — Modern English Edition 2
It's the only other panel he can remove with the tools on hand Also, we're getting rid of the auxiliary fuel pump.
Andy Weir -- The Martian
Later, I'd find out that it was Mrs. Merchant, from the Ladies Auxiliary, who'd glanced out the front window and seen us.
Sarah Dessen -- Dreamland
In a few minutes the investigators went out, and joining those of their auxiliaries who had been left at the door they pursued their way elsewhither.
Thomas Hardy -- The Mayor of Casterbridge
The ship's auxiliary control room was built right inside the bottom of the tail fin.
Kenneth Oppel -- Airborn
Early that morning I had to do a simple breast lump excision, and if the biopsy was positive, then a mastectomy and auxiliary node dissection.
Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
Sneaking off to Level Nine without so much as an auxiliary?
Henry H. Neff -- The Second Siege
The camera was a hand-held auxiliary of wanting-to-know.
Eudora Welty -- One Writer's Beginnings
At dinner, prisoners and auxiliaries sat at the same tables as troopers and officers.
Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
"Run it," Whitney ordered, and gestured to the auxiliary unit across the room.
J.D. Robb -- Naked in Death
He is my chief auxiliary!
Gaston Leroux -- The Phantom of the Opera
Mystery and disappointment are not absolutely indispensable to the growth of love, but they are, very often, its powerful auxiliaries.
Charles Dickens -- Nicholas Nickleby
May I reckon on you as an auxiliary?
Alexandre Dumas -- The Three Musketeers
You were attacked by two hoodlums of the Di-di Jing Cha, which can be translated as the Young People's Auxiliary Police.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
I do not wonder that the landed interest should be invincible in the state with these dangerous auxiliaries.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays
Lourdes is an auxiliary policewoman, the first in her precinct.
Christina Garcia -- Dreaming in Cuban

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