Example sentences for: clause

How can you use “clause” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • For all such other units at the facility that are not covered by clause (i), multiplying

  • Bruce, it turned out, was the author of the 15-word super-sentence--a creation that not only contains an elliptical adverb clause of comparison, “than I [practised],” and a hidden noun clause, “[that] he stank,” but compacts the four phrases into the subordinate part and the three clauses into the main part.

  • The Times story has this juicy detail indicating that there were some worries inside the campaign about the scheme's propriety: During the campaign, senior Clinton aide Harold Ickes pressed for an indemnification clause in the media consultants' contract that would have forced the consultants to pay any fines levied if the plan was found to be illegal.

  • A technology upgrade clause is one way to avoid obsolescence by allowing an agency to buy advanced versions of equipment or software when they become available.

  • While reaching the theoretical limit for super-sentences, Bruce's creation is rather awkward, with the adjective clause, “which overcomes,” emerging as a dangling modifier.


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