Sample Sentences for
correspond
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correspond as in:  corresponding time period

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    The bones in a bat's wing exactly correspond to those in a human forearm.
    correspond = are equivalent (have similar form)
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    All of the factors — disposition, energy level, intelligence, and interests — had to correspond and to interact perfectly.  (source)
    correspond = fit together
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    And the clearer such ideas may be, the more certain it is that they correspond to reality.  (source)
    correspond = fit
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    The light of his faith quite put out, and his affections made desolate, he had clung with all the force of his nature to his work and his money; and like all objects to which a man devotes himself, they had fashioned him into correspondence with themselves.  (source)
    correspondence = a match that fits
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    He drew in his breath suddenly. Glancing below, I saw no corresponding reaction, and wondered if Jem was trying to be dramatic.  (source)
    corresponding = fitting or matching
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    It corresponded only too well with the deep wound in the back of Rogers' head…  (source)
    corresponded = fit together
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    Day after day she looked fearfully into the child's expanding nature, ever dreading to detect some dark and wild peculiarity that should correspond with the guiltiness to which she owed her being.  (source)
    correspond = connect or fit together
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    There was a photographer present, a German war correspondent with a Leica.†  (source)
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    The Nazis paid informants 7.50 guilders (which corresponds to about $45 today) for every Jew in hiding they were able to track down.  (source)
    corresponds = is the equivalent
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    I pull out Shade's letter from the little box where I keep all his correspondences.†  (source)
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    Over the past half decade, the traffic on all of the Seven Summits, especially Everest, has multiplied at an astonishing rate. And to meet the demand, the number of commercial enterprises peddling guided ascents of the Seven Summits, especially Everest, has multiplied correspondingly.  (source)
    correspondingly = proportionately
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    (*) "Le radici e corrispondenze," their roots (i.e. foundations) and correspondencies or relations with other states—a common meaning of "correspondence" and "correspondency" in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries†  (source)
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    From hence there ariseth a triple Word of God, Rational, Sensible, and Prophetique: to which Correspondeth a triple Hearing; Right Reason, Sense Supernaturall, and Faith.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She correspondeth" in older English, today we say "She corresponds."
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correspond as in:  corresponding by email

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    Do either of you have copies of your correspondence?
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    But her replies eventually got longer and we began to correspond.  (source)
    correspond = write to each other
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    By the spring of 1944, the mothers of the Green Hornet crewmen, as well as other family members, had begun to correspond.  (source)
    correspond = exchange letters through the mail
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    Everett Ruess's correspondence reveals uncanny parallels between Ruess and Chris McCandless.  (source)
    correspondence = written letters
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    I'm sorry I'm such a poor correspondent, Chris; I found myself in a tangle of cases this past month.  (source)
    correspondent = someone who communicates in writing
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    But does not Jane correspond with his sister?  (source)
    correspond = exchange letters through the mail
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    They are Augustus and Hazel, the young fans with whom you have been corresponding.  (source)
    corresponding = exchanging letters or messages
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    Your boy Waters and I corresponded a bit, and in his last—  (source)
    corresponded = communication by writing letters or messages
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    The mail is unpredictable and I'm sure your uncles will be watching my correspondence.  (source)
    correspondence = written letters
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    During her reading Sophie glanced out of the window several times to see whether her mysterious correspondent had turned up at the mailbox.  (source)
    correspondent = someone who writes letters
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    I used to correspond with them, you know, after I got back to Moscow, and then they suddenly stopped writing.  (source)
    correspond = exchange letters through the mail
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    What would she be corresponding with Taius about?  (source)
    corresponding = exchanging letters or messages
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    Certain military people who corresponded with her dropped hints about things without meaning to, and she and Peter put them together to build up a fascinating and frightening picture of Warsaw Pact activity.  (source)
    corresponded = communicated by writing letters or messages
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correspondence as in:  a correspondence course

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    I don't live in Los Angeles yet, but I joined the organization as a corresponding member.
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    Classes: A weekly correspondence course in shorthand.  (source)
    correspondence = done from afar via written communication
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    With a quick glance at the door to check that Filch wasn't on his way back, Harry picked up the envelope and read: kwikspell A Correspondence Course in Beginners' Magic.  (source)
    Correspondence = done from afar (by mailing letters, reports, etc.)
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    Your generous correspondence course in philosophy is greatly appreciated by us here.  (source)
    correspondence = done from afar via written communication
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    Corresponding member of the Swedish Pathological Society.  (source)
    Corresponding = distant (not generally present--historically communicating through writing)
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    Probably you have some correspondent in Greece?  (source)
    correspondent = an agent who represents someone in a distant place based on written communication
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    By his own account, most of the time that he wasn't working with horses, he spent reading and studying for a correspondence course he'd signed up for.  (source)
    correspondence = done from afar via written communication
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    I draw upon him for 600,000. francs, my bills are returned unpaid, and, more than that, I hold bills of exchange signed by him to the value of 400,000. francs, payable at his correspondent's in Paris at the end of this month.  (source)
    correspondent = an agent who represents someone in a distant place based on written communication
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    This started what became a kind of correspondence course with the prisoners in the general section.  (source)
    correspondence = done from afar
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    Then Tererai took correspondence classes and began saving money.  (source)
    correspondence = done from afar (by mailing letters, reports, etc.)
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    Anything more than correspondence school was out of the question.  (source)
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    He did his high school courses by correspondence, sitting at the kitchen table and studying by the light of a kerosene lamp; he put himself through university by working in lumber camps and cleaning out rabbit hutches, and was so poor that he lived in a tent in the summers to save money.  (source)
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    Bailey was obviously always going to be too small to be an athlete, so which concrete angel glued to what country seat had decided that if my brother wanted to become a lawyer he had to first pay penance for his skin by picking cotton and hoeing corn and studying correspondence books at night for twenty years?  (source)
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correspondent as in:  foreign correspondent of the paper

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Let's get a report from our correspondent in Mexico City.
correspondent = reporter
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    Our correspondent in Iran was kidnapped.
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    "Personally I see nothing positive at all about Chris McCandless's lifestyle or wilderness doctrine," scolded another correspondent.  (source)
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    Every evening the war correspondents report on the difficulties, the courage and the fighting spirit of the army.  (source)
    correspondents = reporters
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    I met real estate developers, agents, heiresses, fund managers, lawyers, clothing designers, professional basketball players, photographers, movie producers, and television correspondents.  (source)
    correspondents = reporters
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    Bob Simon, CBS's on-air correspondent for the story, thought that this would probably be his only chance to question Watanabe, so there in the lobby, he began grilling him about his treatment of Louie.  (source)
    correspondent = reporter
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    Marocchino also cultivated a close relationship with news correspondents by wining and dining them during their stay in Mogadishu.†  (source)
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    We like to refer to him as the Chief Death Eater, and here to give his views on some of the more insane rumors circulating about him, I'd like to introduce a new correspondent.  (source)
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    In response to further letters in A Quarterly, the Society justified its stance by saying that while it accepted some correspondents' views that certain butlers of excellent quality were to be found in the houses of businessmen, 'the assumption had to be that the houses of true ladies and gentlemen would not refrain long from acquiring the services of any such persons'.†  (source)
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    Story by Matthew Hill, BBC Health Correspondent From BBC News  (source)
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    India and Honey are such poor correspondents, and I know you know everything that goes on down there.†  (source)
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    I wanted to tell people it was me, but the BBC correspondent had told me not to, as it could be dangerous.  (source)
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    My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them—by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents.†  (source)
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    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy defines the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as "a bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes," with a footnote to the effect that the editors would welcome applications from anyone interested in taking over the post of robotics correspondent.  (source)
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