Sample Sentences for
consequence
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consequence as in:  a direct consequence of

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Your decision will have three major consequences.
consequences = results
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    Her job prospects are hindered as a consequence of the conviction.
    consequence = result
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    And he was often frustrated as a consequence.  (source)
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    The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst.  (source)
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    Because they imply very large consequences for human life.  (source)
    consequences = effects (results)
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    And the consequence was no food.  (source)
    consequence = result
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    Consequently, the Environmental Impact Statement conveniently disappeared from the city files.  (source)
    Consequently = resultantly (as a result)
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    Even the laxity of divorce regulations in the early years of the revolution was undoubtedly a revulsion from the nineteenth-century Victorian immobility of marriage and the consequent hypocrisy that developed from it.  (source)
    consequent = following as a result
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    Is action merely the incidental product of thought, or is thought the consequential product of action?†  (source)
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    No one fails to suffer the consequences of everything under the sun.  (source)
    consequences = effects
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    In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. "Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had." ... In consequence, I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, ...  (source)
    consequence = result
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    Consequently, I would have more time to hunt and fish.  (source)
    Consequently = resultantly (as a result)
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    In the sound of the drums I understood a vast pervading doom; but in the expectant silences between, my own disaster loomed larger, more consequent and more hurtful.†  (source)
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    You are hereby warned that any movement on your part not explicitly endorsed by verbal authorization on my part may pose a direct physical risk to you, as well as consequential psychological and possibly, depending on your personal belief system, spiritual risks ensuing from your personal reaction to said physical risk.†  (source)
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consequence as in:  of little consequence

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Think carefully. This is a consequential decision.
consequential = important
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    It is the most consequential tax legislation in decades.
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    She is a consequential member of the faculty.
    consequential = important or significant
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    But he was no longer of any consequence in the search for Charles Wallace.  (source)
    consequence = importance
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    But it's still an unimportant residential block with nothing of strategic consequence.  (source)
    consequence = importance or significance
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    The pathos of this deplorable figure, with its innocent vanity and consequential air, touches Pickering, who has already straightened himself in the presence of Mrs. Pearce.  (source)
    consequential = important
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    Meanwhile, Hutu and Tutsi refugees outside Burundi and Rwanda became some of the principal and angriest keepers of the memories of massacre and injustice, and their camps became staging areas for opposition movements -- most consequentially, settlements of Rwandan Tutsis in Uganda and of Burundian Hutus in Tanzania.  (source)
    consequentially = importantly
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    It was an uncharacteristic break from his cover that might easily have alerted his parents to his whereabouts, although the lapse proved to be of no consequence because the private investigator hired by Walt and Billie never caught the slip.  (source)
    consequence = importance
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    Cedric laughs, surprised to be looking down slightly at the teacher, who is consequential and wide-shouldered, and must be about five-foot-ten.  (source)
    consequential = important
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    He wrinkled lugubriously, consequentially, at the thought of the letters he would write to the heads of Government offices about "my old friend, Peter Walsh," and so on.  (source)
    consequentially = self-importantly
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    Just bad luck. That's what you say. Of no consequence. That's what you make yourself believe—because deep down, you know that this small piece of changing fortune is a signal of things to come.  (source)
    consequence = importance
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    He only remembered his face as he remembered all the faces he had ever seen; but he remembered, too, that it was one of the faces laid by in his memory in the immense class of the falsely consequential and poor in expression.  (source)
    consequential = important
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    The agent shrugged as though it was of no consequence to him,  (source)
    consequence = importance
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    The same pride one takes in more consequential tasks outside of prison one can find in doing small things inside prison.†  (source)
    consequential = important
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