Sample Sentences for
conjunction
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conjunction as in:  working in conjunction

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    She studied how climate patterns change in conjunction with ocean temperatures.
    conjunction = combination
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    The economic crash came from a conjunction of both market and governmental failure.
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    "Conjunction? Tenebrous? Hue?" Violet repeated. "I have no idea what you're talking about."  (source)
    Conjunction = when things are joined or happen together
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    All these people, in conjunction with the State Department of Education in Tallahassee, have helped to devise this emergency relocation plan.  (source)
    conjunction = combination
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    These things, in conjunction with the wild work we have in hand, help to unnerve a man.  (source)
    conjunction = at the same time
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    Such a conjunction has not occurred for two hundred years, and your Highness will not live to see it again.  (source)
    conjunction = when things happen at the same time
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    Architects always designed the chapels in conjunction with the tomb.  (source)
    conjunction = combination
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    In conjunction means together.  (source)
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    "The Mamba du Mal," he read, "is one of the deadliest snakes in the hemisphere, noted for its strangulatory grip, used in conjunction with its deadly venom, giving all of its victims a tenebrous hue, which is ghastly to behold."  (source)
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    "The Mamba du Mal," he read, "is one of the deadliest snakes in the hemisphere, noted for its strangulatory grip, used in conjunction with its deadly venom, giving all of its victims a tenebrous hue, which is ghastly to behold."  (source)
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conjunction as in:  "And" is a conjunction

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    The teacher asked them to rewrite the paragraph using conjunctions to avoid so many short sentences.
    conjunctions = joining words
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    FOR A NONRESTRICTIVE CLAUSE OR PHRASE, BUT NOT FOR INDEPENDENT CLAUSES JOINED BY COORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS….  (source)
    CONJUNCTIONS = words (such as "and" or "but") that connect words, phrases, or clauses in a sentence
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    Until he understood how hateful it was and how it soiled him when he used it as casually as a conjunction.  (source)
    conjunction = a word (such as "and" or "but") that connects words, phrases, or clauses in a sentence
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    Many older citizens … expend a great deal of effort in demonstrating to their children the illogical character of aren't I, or like as a conjunction.  (source)
    conjunction = a word (such as "and" or "but") that connects words, phrases, or clauses in a sentence
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    Simple conjunctions and prepositions are replaced by such phrases as WITH RESPECT TO, HAVING REGARD TO, THE FACT THAT, BY DINT OF, IN VIEW OF, IN THE INTERESTS OF, ON THE HYPOTHESIS THAT;  (source)
    conjunctions = words (such as "and" or "but") that connect words, phrases, or clauses in a sentence
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    The chair worked in conjunction with my Shaptic Bootsuit, a fullbody haptic feedback suit.†  (source)
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    I know by my art that there have not been such disastrous conjunctions of the planets for five hundred years.†  (source)
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    Yes, and for the mentally ill, this must be done in conjunction with the therapist.†  (source)
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    But, fair or not fair, there are unbecoming conjunctions, which reason will patronize in vain—which taste cannot tolerate—which ridicule will seize.†  (source)
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    We're to operate in conjunction with your New Jersey group.†  (source)
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    There are in all our lives such moments, such influences, coming from the outside, as it were, irresistible, incomprehensible—as if brought about by the mysterious conjunctions of the planets.†  (source)
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    Although the DEVGRU SEALS I met with would occasionally bring up the bin Laden capture/kill mission during the many hours of interviews I conducted with them over the next few weeks, the topic was always in conjunction with Adam—specifically how he would have loved to have been there.†  (source)
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    After all, he thought, one need not be surprised to find the rare conjunctions of nature under circumstances apparently unfavorable: come where they may, they always depend on conditions that are not obvious.†  (source)
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