Sample Sentences for
concordance
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concordance as in:  a Bible concordance

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The Bible concordance helped her find every verse that mentioned forgiveness.
concordance = key word index
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    It is a concordance of the complete works of Shakespeare.
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    "Run get me my Concordance," she'd say, referring to a little book bound in thin leather, falling apart.  (source)
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    La Concordance des Bibles, by Pierre de Besse;  (source)
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    He walked slowly amid the guests of the French Academy, seeking anchors for his racing thought-a dark waving branch with waxen leaves, a sight of the stars through a cut in the trees, a girl throwing back her hair to the irresistible rhythm of the song, a concordance of colors compressed in a torchlit line of sight, the stirrings of women in their silken clothing.†  (source)
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    There were certain concordances.†  (source)
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    Their eyes met in a gentle and satisfied concordance as the music danced from their fingertips.†  (source)
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    It was as if she had admitted to herself that against that easy surface of her husband's concordance with her wishes, which had, since the war had given him back to her physically unimpaired, covered an increasing inclination to tear himself and his possessions loose from their proper setting, she was helpless.†  (source)
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    He heard Saphira and Glaedr hum in concordance, a deep pulse so strong that it vibrated within his bones and made his skin tingle and the air shimmer.†  (source)
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    But by and by this green and colorful and verdant beauty, the almost level floor of the canyon, the banks of soft earth, the thickets and the clumps of cotton-woods, the shelving caverns and the bulging walls—these features gradually were lost, and Nonnezoshe Boco began to deepen in bare red and white stone steps, the walls sheered away from one another, breaking into sections and ledges, and rising higher and higher, and there began to be manifested a dark and solemn concordance with the nature that had created this rent in the earth.†  (source)
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    An oaken, broken, elbow-chair; A caudle-cup without an ear; A battered, shattered ash bedstead; A box of deal without a lid; A pair of tongs, but out of joint; A back-sword poker, without point; A dish which might good meat afford once; An Ovid, and an old Concordance.†  (source)
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    The weight of the insect was very remarkable, and, taking all things into consideration, I could hardly blame Jupiter for his opinion respecting it; but what to make of Legrand's concordance with that opinion, I could not, for the life of me, tell.†  (source)
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    At last he said: 'I'll need all the Misery books, if you've got them, because I don't have my concordance.'†  (source)
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    Though his passage through the system was brutal, the cadre only went so far with him, and then, as if they hadsigned a secret concordance, they would pull back from him in common recognition of their limits.†  (source)
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concordance as in:  degree of concordance

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The genetic study found a high concordance rate between twins for certain traits.
concordance = degree of alignment
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