Sample Sentences for
structure
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structure as in:  sentence structure or structure it

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    Structure the sentence so the verb more closely follows the subject.
    restructuring = organize
    standard prefix: The prefix "re-" in restructuring means again. This is the same pattern you see in words like reconsider, rearrange, and regenerate.
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    They didn't map the structure of DNA until 1953.
    structure = the way parts of something are organized
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    We'll structure the debate with an opening statements, rebuttals, and closing arguments.
    structure = arrange or organize
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    Try to structure your day to include some walking or exercise.
    structure = arrange or organize
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    "A Gentleman in Moscow" was structured so the early and late chapters covered longer time periods than the middle chapters.
    structured = arranged or organized
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    They begin as unstructured groupings, our children, who desire the same as any young person.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unstructured means not and reverses the meaning of structured. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    O'Brien signals the difference between novelist and character in the structuring of the two narrative frames.  (source)
    structuring = the way something is organized
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    I would try really try to restructure our marriage.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "re-" in restructure means again. This is the same pattern you see in words like reconsider, rearrange, and regenerate.
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    Big Creek was to be restructured, he said, beginning with the junior class.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "re-" in restructured means again. This is the same pattern you see in words like reconsider, rearrange, and regenerate.
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    There's been lots of turmoil at cumbersome federal departments like agriculture lately-more restructuring, though, than actual cost cutting.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "re-" in restructuring means again. This is the same pattern you see in words like reconsider, rearrange, and regenerate.
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    It is the one thing that structures their days: the sound of the food being warmed in the microwave, three plates lowered from the cupboard, three glasses filled.  (source)
    structures = gives shape or order
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    Then I structured the classes and the exercises accordingly.†  (source)
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    What, do I use masculine sentence structure or something?  (source)
    structure = the way something is organized
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structure as in:  a massive structure

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They built a metal structure to support the roof.
structure = something made of parts
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    It's an old wood-frame structure behind the main house.
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    But as he looked at the weave of his structure a thought came to him and he moved down to the water.  (source)
    structure = constructed shelter
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    You could change your name, age, sex, race, height, weight, voice, hair color, and bone structure.  (source)
    structure = physical form
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    Six decades ago in this enchanting hideaway, less than a mile downstream from where the Mormon steps meet the floor of the gulch, twenty-year-old Everett Ruess carved his nom de plume into the canyon wall below a panel of Anasazi pictographs, and he did so again in the doorway of a small masonry structure built by the Anasazi for storing grain.  (source)
    structure = building
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    Some of the rocks form small cavelike structures.  (source)
    structures = assemblages -- in this case rock formations that form sheltering caves
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    The Englishman was sitting on a bench in a structure that smelled of animals, sweat, and dust; it was part warehouse, part corral.  (source)
    structure = building
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    The area of dwellings behind him, Jonas rode past the community structures, hoping to spot Asher's bicycle parked beside one of the small factories or office buildings.  (source)
    structures = buildings
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    As the bridge came into view the other side of the river was clearly visible, and it was obvious to everyone that an old Model-T truck, overflowing with redheaded children, had reached the bridge first and was about to cross, but suddenly Uncle Hammer gassed the Packard and sped onto the creaking structure.  (source)
    structure = constructed object
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    Then I watched as planes sank into them, and I stared, bewildered, at the TV as the unimaginably tall structures swayed, then buckled.  (source)
    structures = buildings
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    As his eyes adjusted, Gennaro could now see that they were in some kind of an enormous underground structure but it was man-made—there were seams of poured concrete, and the nubs of protruding steel rods.  (source)
    structure = building
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    Whatever structures were holding it up give way in a sudden and catastrophic failure.†  (source)
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    And there were offices for the guards who enforced the laws of Ember, now and then putting pickpockets or people who got in fights into the Prison Room, a small one-story structure with a sloping roof that jutted out from one side of the building.  (source)
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    The colored schoolhouse was older than the dormitories, one of the few structures that dated back to the opening of the school.†  (source)
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