Sample Sentences fordepreciation (auto-selected)
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Prices kept going up and up, and depreciation of the paper money took a lot of the profit out of it.† (source)
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As the jurors faded away, Jake and Squire talked about the company's performance, its contracts, strategies, costs, labor problems, plant depreciation.† (source)
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One reason that the Overlook has lost so much money lies in the depreciation that occurs each winter.† (source)
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I rather think his appearance there was distasteful to Catherine; she was not artful, never played the coquette, and had evidently an objection to her two friends meeting at all; for when Heathcliff expressed contempt of Linton in his presence, she could not half coincide, as she did in his absence; and when Linton evinced disgust and antipathy to Heathcliff, she dared not treat his sentiments with indifference, as if depreciation of her playmate were of scarcely any consequence to her.† (source)
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He took pains to avoid self-depreciation, self-mockery, ambiguity, irony, subtlety, vulnerability, a civilized world-weariness and a tragic sense of history— the very things, he says, that are most natural to him.† (source)
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In a sulky triumph, Drummle showed his morose depreciation of the rest of us, in a more and more offensive degree, until he became downright intolerable.† (source)
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For three hours, she'd listened to Bob drone on and on about itemized deductions and capital gains distributions, depreciation and 401(k) rollovers.† (source)
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Fair words and fair pretences; but I penetrated below those assertions of themselves and depreciations of me, and they were no better.† (source)
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She was in a mood of self-depreciation.† (source)
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The depreciation of the rouble keeps me awake at night, Dmitri Fyodorovitch; people don't know that side of me—† (source)
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She had become almost indifferent to her mother's habitual depreciation of her, but she was keenly alive to any sanction of it, however passive, that she might suspect in Tom.† (source)
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Most timidities have such secret compensations, and Miss Bart was discerning enough to know that the inner vanity is generally in proportion to the outer self-depreciation.† (source)
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As a general reflection on Fanny, Sir Thomas thought nothing could be more unjust, though he had been so lately expressing the same sentiments himself, and he tried to turn the conversation: tried repeatedly before he could succeed; for Mrs. Norris had not discernment enough to perceive, either now, or at any other time, to what degree he thought well of his niece, or how very far he was from wishing to have his own children's merits set off by the depreciation of hers.† (source)
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There were as yet no tidings of Gurth and his charge, which should long since have been driven home from the forest and such was the insecurity of the period, as to render it probable that the delay might be explained by some depreciation of the outlaws, with whom the adjacent forest abounded, or by the violence of some neighbouring baron, whose consciousness of strength made him equally negligent of the laws of property.† (source)
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Money, if kept by us, yields no rent and is liable to loss; if invested, is liable to depreciation of the particular kind of stock.† (source)
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Adams experienced firsthand the "amazing depreciation" of the currency, of prices so high as to be laughable under any other circumstances.† (source)
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