Sample Sentences for

muster

grouped by contextual meaning

(editor-reviewed)

After a long day at work, she mustered the energy to attend her daughter's soccer game.

If you can't muster the will to jump off, you don't belong here.  (source) Veronica Roth, Divergent, 2011

She could not muster her usual venom.  (source) Markus Zusak, The Book Thief, 2005

He held his mind to the task for a long time, picturing, with all the clarity he could muster, everything he had seen in that underground realm—the long stairway, the tunnels, the door, the path along the river, the rocks along the path.  (source) Jeanne DuPrau, The City of Ember, 2003

In March, however, he mustered his resolve once more and resumed his lonely trek.  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996

The Eagles had long had suspicion of the goblins' mustering; from their watchfulness the movements in the mountains could not be altogether hid.  (source) J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, 1937

For having set in the Hôtel des Tournelles six panes of white glass in the place where the iron cage is, thirteen sols; for having made and delivered by command of the king, on the day of the musters, four shields with the escutcheons of the said seigneur, encircled with garlands of roses all about, six livres; for two new sleeves to the king's old doublet, twenty sols; for a box of grease to grease the boots of the king, fifteen deniers; a stable newly made to lodge the king's black pigs, thirty livres parisis; many partitions, planks, and trap-doors, for the safekeeping of the lions at Saint-Paul, twenty-two livres.†  (source) Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, 1831

Then, ag'in, the settlers in the Otsego hills christened me anew, from the fashion of my leggings; and various have been the names by which I have gone through life; but little will it matter when the time shall come, that all are to be muster'd, face to face, by what titles a mortal has played his part!†  (source) James Fenimore Cooper, The Prairie, 1827

There the School's history had unrolled, the fabled riot scenes and Presidential visits and Civil War musterings, if not in these buildings then in their predecessors on the same site.  (source) John Knowles, A Separate Peace, 1959

I was feeling better now that it was half over, and I sat next to Maxon with the best posture I could muster.  (source) Kiera Cass, The Selection, 2012

I mustered the courage to walk through the silent house by myself and reached the warehouse.  (source) Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl, 1952

I stared up at her, temporarily frozen, mustering my courage.†  (source) Ernest Cline, Ready Player One, 2011

In one group, he musters the courage to slip in a Mullah Omar joke that he had learned in Farsi back in California.†  (source) Khaled Hosseini, And The Mountains Echoed, 2013

Everywhere I looked there were signs for runaway shelters, runaway hotlines, and one lady cop in particular gave me the fish-eye as I was hurrying outside—after sixty-plus hours on the bus, I was dirty and tired and knew I didn't really pass muster—but nobody stopped me and I didn't look behind me until I was out the door, and well away.  (source) Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch, 2013

And if he really expected that, I could not pass muster.  (source) Ellen Hopkins, Identical, 2008

A half-truth at best, though tedious enough to pass muster.  (source) Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin, 2000

In mathematics I hope he will pass muster.  (source) David McCullough, John Adams, 2002

We were called for muster at dawn.†