Examples of how to use the word “essay” in a sentence. How to connect “essay” with other words to make correct English sentences.
essay (n): a short piece of writing on a particular subject, especially one done by students as part of the work for a course
Use “essay” in a sentence
The content of his essay is excellent, but it’s not very well expressed. |
I have to write an essay about a movie. |
Can you please revise this essay? |
His essay was concise and to the point. |
She spent a lot of time writing her essay.
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‘There’s some maths and I have to get started on the English essay as well
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Then there were several essay questions, none of which truly plumbed to the depths of his already practiced compositions
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Nine heads simultaneously bowed over the pages of questions and essay topics and set to work
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healing, this essay hopes to convey the child within)
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The bluebook consisted of who knows 20-30 pages of written answers to essay questions
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When the student looked at the essay exam and scanned through all of the pages, maybe 30 pages in that exam; there was not one mark on the exam
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How are you going to talk to an expert in that legal area when you’re a freshman in law school and there isn’t one comment on your essay exam? To make a long story short guess what! The student’s grade didn’t get changed and he lived with a C in contract law
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But in 1695, the common price of silver bullion was six shillings and fivepence an ounce, {Lowndes’s Essay on the Silver Coin, 68
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It has been observed to have taken place in France during the same period, and nearly in the same proportion, too, by three very faithful, diligent, and laborious collectors of the prices of corn, Mr Dupré de St Maur, Mr Messance, and the author of the Essay on the Police of Grain
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books and write a smashing essay
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In his essay, The Myth of Sisyphus,[73] Albert Camus tries to explain how we can live in what he describes as an “absurd” world, and still be happy
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The hero of the Camus essay, perhaps the prototypically absurd person, is Sisyphus
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balancing the people’s welfare with that of her personal obligations and responsibilities is a juggling act she can’t always essay with grace!” Tei was beaming
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From the Collections of the Abbé Expilly, and the observations of the author of the Essay upon the Legislation and Commerce of Corn, it appears probable that France, including the provinces of Lorraine and Bar, contains about twenty-three or twenty-four millions of people; three times the number, perhaps, contained in Great Britain
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And in the same essay he informs us that the first responsibility of government is to govern the people, and the second necessity is to govern themselves, an injunction that seems to have completely escaped the notice of the current Democrat administration
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In a recent essay, economist Walter Williams gives us some sets of figures worth pondering and remembering, as follows
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In fact his father had suggested Akbar should go with them, so obviously it was logical that Akbar could help him with his essay
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Few days after the election, I sent to Bierzo 7 an essay in defense of the win of the Republican candidates and their program
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The way humans have learned to use sight as a metaphor for understanding everything else, including the experiences that we encounter all around us, is that complicated choreograph that I referred to in the Naked Ape portion of this essay
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But within many of the things that he has cited in his essay, I see the glimmer of hope for a positive proof of Intelligent Design, in the context of how I understand this term
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I had intended that God in the “dialogue” would have had the last word in this rather voluminous essay, or assay as the dictionary might better describe it, “To examine by trial
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The Malthusian crowning statement was found in his Essay on Population and Principles of Political Economy
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The Eighteenth Century English statesman Edmund Burke, in an essay “On the Sublime and Beautiful,” also found excitement in contemplation of the Sublime
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was your weekend, did you finish your essay on time, did you see that car accident on the
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The essay from which I just quoted can be found online
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gratuitously came to my attention which became a short essay and then, surprisingly, with
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Earlier in this essay, I pointed out that the primary motivation for the Fabians, and the later US socialist leaders such as Walter Reuther, Lyndon Johnson, Norman Thomas and many others has been the quest for power, and it still is
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16, 2009) op-ed essay in the
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Teacher told all students in a class to write an essay on a cricket match
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In his essay “Three 9/11s: Satyāgraha or Terrorism”, Richard L
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Works in the same way as essay contests
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In a healing teaching we had to write an essay about healing
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Second, the Art of the Essay with Lydia Fakundiny, who remains, perhaps, the most articulate person I ever met
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h4HE KEY HERE THOUGH IS TO NOT TRY AND FORCE THIS )T IS NOT A UNIVERSITY ESSAY IT IS SOMETHING
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I will go and see if the way is clear, before we essay it
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need of an essay describing the zither
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awards; the 2000 award was for essay on forestry, and
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«I think the last paper he wrote before his senior year in high school was an essay on the history of the number system in the west for a fourth-grade
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In a 1999 essay, Tiemann recalls the impact of Stallman’s
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notable appearance is in the Eric Raymond essay, «The Cathed-
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«Cathedral and the Bazaar» essay as a major influence upon the company’s decision, the company instantly elevated Raymond to the level of hacker celebrity
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realization that his essay contrasting the Stallman-Torvalds
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Needless to say, the essay caused some concern
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When I told him, yes, I had read the essay and was waiting to
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However, the group did publish a collection of the members’ stuff, once a year, so I submitted an essay on
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ESSAY 3 — WHAT IS THE SPEED OF THE TWO FORMS OF GRAVITY
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ESSAY 4 — WHAT IS THE FIFTH DIMENSION
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ESSAY 5 — HOW IS THE UNIVERSE CONSTRUCTED
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ESSAY 6 — HOW MUCH MATTER IS THERE IN THE UNIVERSE?
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Then, last but not least, I have an interesting essay written by a British reporter from the DAILY TELEGRAPH, titled ‘Nancy Laplante: the true story behind the mystery’
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readers will instantly dismiss the essay because
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My essay explains why the universe is a Mobius
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Essay — «From the View of Physics, What Could a Gene Possibly Be?»
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My essay explains why the universe is a Mobius loop and how it is
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‘It all began with a stupid essay about
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She failed me on my essay, which was really stupid because I know
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as fruity as a Christmas cake, even said that my essay was subversive
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I told her that I would bring my essay and my skates
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environment for kids and I hinted at that in my essay
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my essay and mum gave me plenty of dough
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She looked at me and then at Phoebe, who was buried in my essay, and said,
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I gave her the essay and kicked back
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‘You know, Phoebe, if they asked me to write the essay again I would have
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‘I wrote about drugs in my essay
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‘When I was preparing my essay I talked to my dad about it to see if he had
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I want to read the rest of your essay later
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the pizza she chatted about the essay
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I was getting pretty bored with the stupid essay I’ve got to tell
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, this is a really great essay
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saying in my essay that homosexuality is a primary selecting factor in today’s
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‘You really went to the heart of it in your essay, didn’t you J
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Now they never read the essay
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even read portions of the essay
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Davidson’s was clearly demonstrated in his essay on evolution?’ asked the
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Note: Quotations relate to the summary as a whole, rather than to any one essay
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Note: This essay is not based on books; it was suggested in talks with 10 mystics
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which is the reason this essay was written
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resisting the old bully pulpit when he challenged, “Dare to Know!: Have the courage to use your own intelligence!” And at the end of the preceding century John Locke published his Essay Concerning Human Understanding wherein he influenced future Enlightenment thinkers by stressing the importance of experience and environment on shaping peoples attitudes and
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The assignment was this: he was to write an essay comparing and
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The difficulty in writing this sort of essay isn’t the comparing
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me about his next paper: a three-page description essay
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Just this alone spelled trouble to Tammas and he had written as much in his essay that outlined the
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• Choose a short story or essay and both read it
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• Even with an essay question, write what you know
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In this essay we will discuss thought forms, spirit guides, and other beings which can be channeled, together with a simple technique for consciously channeling them
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From researching essay papers to curriculum, anything you need to search for is available online for free and right in the convenience of your own home
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tant corner of the scrolls! The corner had a verifiable essay on it,
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Though most of the quotes in this essay are from the Gospel of Saint Matthew, I was careful to compare them with the texts of the other three canonical gospels
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The photo essay below is representative of the images that stained my memory at
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The photo essay below is testimony to the beauty and historical wonder of the area
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Once I have the hang of this new-fangled stuff, I aim to complete a photo essay on
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The essay is to have an
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Lamb’s essay The superannuated Man gives a touching expression to
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Harry was elated on account of those two particular locales they had essayed during their journey merely for their very formidable access and the determination which one must conjure to tour them
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He hung up, looked at his friends and essayed a smile
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As they tramped along Trask essayed a cautious question
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him, and essayed to propagate it by the sword, with such
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If Jannes or Jambres had essayed similar comments, they would soon have shrunk from the conflict, and their ‘folly would have been made manifest to all men
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One of the bolder ones, seeing the expression on the Arch-astronomer’s face, raised an arm tremulously and essayed a hasty thunderbolt
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As for Albert and Franz, they essayed not to escape from their ciceronian tyrants; and, indeed, it would have been so much the more difficult to break their bondage, as the guides alone are permitted to visit these monuments with torches in their hands
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» Franz essayed to smile
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Sometimes Madame Magloire essayed a remonstrance in advance, but never at the time, nor afterwards
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In that obscure and wan shadow within which he crawled, each time that he turned his neck and essayed to raise his glance, he perceived with terror, mingled with rage, a sort of frightful accumulation of things, collecting and mounting above him, beyond the range of his vision,—laws, prejudices, men, and deeds,—whose outlines escaped him, whose mass terrified him, and which was nothing else than that prodigious pyramid which we call civilization
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The world’s greatest actor and the movies’ love goddess join forces to bring Terence Rattigan’s stage play The Sleeping Prince to the screen, with Olivier repeating his stage role and Monroe playing the role essayed by Olivier’s then wife, Vivien Leigh
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It was a long climb up the face of the building, and one fraught with much danger, but there was no other way, and so I essayed the task
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Why, then, this hesitancy! Once more he essayed the effort, but a qualm of nausea overwhelmed him
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The classification of the constituents of a chaos, nothing less is here essayed
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Change of position had essayed,
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Remembering how Woloda had been wont to kiss his inamorata’s purse last year, I essayed to do the same thing now; and really, when alone in my room in the evenings and engaged in dreaming as I looked at a flower or occasionally pressed it to my lips, I would feel a certain pleasantly lachrymose mood steal over me, and remain genuinely in love (or suppose myself to be so) for at least several days
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Frank Keenan essayed so unsuccessfully at the Berkeley Lyceum in New York last season
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Sometimes they would advance very cautiously towards the ladder: then, when they got very near, hesitate a little whether to go under or run the risk of falling into the street by essaying the narrow passage: then they would get very close up to the foot of the ladder, and dodge and dance about, and give the cart little pushes from side to side, until at last the magnetic influence exerted itself and the perambulator crashed into the ladder, perhaps at the very moment that the man at the top was stretching out to do some part of the work almost beyond his reach
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Some clung to the Shrouds straining to see what had become of other Ships around us (as if that might portend our Fate) and some hung on to the Yards like veritable Monkies, essaying to straighten the torn and flapping Sails; others scurried to man the Pumps, shouting that all was lost, we should surely founder; and still others fell to bended Knee in Pray’r
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It was Napoleon, the immense somnambulist of this dream which had crumbled, essaying once more to advance
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At this same time, in early 1955, she began to tell the press that she was dreaming of essaying the female lead in Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov
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Now, while Macey, the mate, was standing up in his boat’s bow, and with all the reckless energy of his tribe was venting his wild exclamations upon the whale, and essaying to get a fair chance for his poised lance, lo! a broad white shadow rose from the sea; by its quick, fanning motion, temporarily taking the breath out of the bodies of the oarsmen
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However, he managed to reach the summit and clambered over the brink, then paused awhile for some little breath and strength before essaying the hardest task of all—the hauling of Trevannion into safety
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Belle not only encouraged this behavior but had them make reports, synopses and essays over the information, concepts and conclusions drawn from their readings
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He looked back over his responses and skimmed his essays, the looked to be sure there were no other pages of the test which he might have overlooked, satisfied, he replaced his paperwork in the envelope, wrote his full name upon the flap, and raised his hand
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They quizzed each other when not in individual study of past essays
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Following are poems and essays about the effects and feelings resulting from abuse
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He wrote literary and mythological essays in which he draws parallels between Greek myths and other mythologies
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[79] Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays, p
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The beauty of a systematical arrangement of different observations, connected by a few common principles, was first seen in the rude essays of those ancient times towards a system of natural philosophy
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His essays, and quotes, were crudely prosaic, sometimes even shockingly strange, yet he could
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Within the group of authors wherein I learned the craft of writing beyond the limits of essays were two with very obvious differences, who became important to my initial success
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(She has published poems and essays in various literary journals
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She’d diligently studied all the available essays on how to
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Thus, these essays each was also much shorter than what was given during the three-day exam
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EMBA Programs use essays to learn more about the motivation and goals of potential applicants
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All this is perfect material to use as a basis for discussion and essays
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In addition to poetry he writes flash fiction, short stories, and nature essays
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And tries the strokes, essays the tricks,
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This is a collection of essays from my blog,
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The idea: Beside writing essays students also had to figure out how to use our
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The list is more a summary than an explanation as you will need to read all the essays to fully understand the distinctions
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If I stayed in one place for a whole school year, without Chiron or my friends around to help me, would my mother and I even survive until the next summer? That was assuming the spelling tests and five-paragraph essays didn’t kill me
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Even through writing these essays I’ve had insights into clearer descriptions and models of understanding of the psychological aspects of waking up
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I have reams of lousy stories, essays, and poems to prove it, but those small daily efforts brought me closer to where I am today
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After a few weeks, compare these essays and note the
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In my book, Lure of the Vampire, I have several essays
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The Poverty of Theory and Other Essays
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In Mothering: Essays in Feminist Theory
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The Power Tactics of ]esus Christ and Other Essays
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Juggling classrooms, difficult parents and girlfriend, and keeping up with his commitments to the team as well as his good impression on Cynthia’s parents, he would deprive himself of sleep, cash and meals in order to fulfill his role for Cynthia, picking her up here and there, helping her with her essays, taking her out to suitably good restaurants and shows, et cetera according to her schedule and demands such as the demand to be fashionable vegan and alcohol free
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Quiet in class, his papers and essays
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His poems and essays on art have been published in
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published more than three hundred pieces of essays,
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His essays have appeared in The
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and the other essays), 2003
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essays of Khe Iem, and especially his latest debut collec-
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His essays have appeared in
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Candice began the rudimentary stages of her writing, at the age of thirteen, composing essays
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I thought I would fail because my essays were all wrong, but one question I answered has a few words mistakes
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Consider the functions of essays and reports
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summary, citation and referencing in order to help you with coursework such as essays
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This eBook is Part 1 of a larger collection of essays, articles and reviews that I have written over the years
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She contributed progressive essays and didn’t stay away from controversial ones, of which Flood approved
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It wasn’t long before McClure’s came into print, with articles of fiction, pieces on travel, reports, essays, some verse and illustrations
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Tarbell produced essays on Napoleon and Lincoln, both spanning a few months and greatly increasing circulation of the magazine
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Heaphy did a great job editing, Satchel Paige And Company: Essays On The Kansas City Monarchs, Their Greatest Star And The Negro Leagues
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Some I truly liked, mostly the short humorous essays by published authors in the group, my friends
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in the Wall Street Journal as a guest columnist, and I had a couple of essays published in various trade journals
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Before meeting Milosz she read several essays by T
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These essays and quotations were directed to the more than five billion people
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These essays use Love, Truth and Reality
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Many of these essays use symbolic terms, as did most quotations of mystics
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Those other faiths do not speak of “mystics” as is defined in these essays; some of
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essays it does occur three times
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some relate to essays in “Other Considerations” (not all printed here)
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Note: None of these essays quoted sacred scriptures (although many books in the bibliography do); there could be no end to that technique
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need to write essays on 18-century politics – read a lot about 18-century politics, look up
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expressions that you’ll need for your essays, write the essays and get them corrected
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King, in interviews and essays, confirms some of these ideas
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history or essays or memoirs and so on, isn’t possible
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Magical Living is a collection of essays which give detailed, how-to instructions on channeling spirit guides,
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inspirational essays on managing love relationships, handling
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The book deals with the Narcissistic Personality Disorder and its effects on the narcissist and his nearest and dearest – in 102 frequently asked questions and two essays – a total of 600 pages!
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whatever reviews and critical essays I could find
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“I noticed from your essays that you have knowledge of tropical life and medicines
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Essays on the Theory of Constraints
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This collection of essays wa
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(The table of definitions is included in the KISS essays at the end of the book)
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In the foreword to a col ection of essays by Jamyang Norbu,
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Essays of Elia are very popular
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Charles Lamb’s essays are autobiographical in the sense that
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Numerous are the essays written by Lamb that are worth reading
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The Essays of Elia : Charles Lamb
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them to be, that doubting did not lead me to attempt to write any philosophical essays
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professors told us to write essays
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lesson, even while glancing at her previous essays that had betrayed excellent work
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The intended purpose of my written essays is to
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direction, it would be you, and he gave me several copies of your past essays
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essays for years, and found your recent one’s to be the most enlightening of
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searching for you over the controversy your essays have stirred up; I assume
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under his breath, Larry referred to the essays as ‘yesterday’s newspaper,’
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since you commented that my essays were old news,” Sam said, smiling as
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“Get on with your essays,” she said, heading for the coat stand to retrieve her dark green silky robe
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Take your essays home and have them completed by morning
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She was scanning the essays and her face was reddening even more
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After she had thrown the ridiculous essays into the trash and calmed down, she turned on her friendly smile again and went around the class, sitting on the corner of each desk and trying to sweet-talk one classmate or another into letting her into his or her secrets
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’ My reason for doing this in my last essays was to show
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That Is That: Essays about True Nature
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That Is That: Essays About True Nature is a collection of articles and answers to questions posed by spiritual seekers
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He has been a journalist, andwriter of essays and short stories of manners
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Valera became the most versatile and polished of allnineteenth century Spanish writers of essays
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are verses, essays anddramatic sketches, all addressed to the moon
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more and be able to recall material for papers, essays, and objective tests
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I wrote fine, well thought out, sensitive essays which my teacher, often, had me read to the class
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of essays that can serve as daily reminders of the
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The 99 essays in Living in the Now will
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essays on the founding principals of sociology
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We got back to our essays as were running out of time
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And if he has not, it is a matter of opinion whether he is not better employed in working along the lines of some well-tried manner that will at any rate keep him from doing anything really bad, than in struggling to cloak his own commonplaceness under violent essays in peculiarity and the avoidance of the obvious at all costs
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in one of his sporadic essays
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[ noun es-ey for 1, 2; es-ey, e-sey for 3-5; verb e-sey ]
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noun
a short literary composition on a particular theme or subject, usually in prose and generally analytic, speculative, or interpretative.
anything resembling such a composition: a picture essay.
an effort to perform or accomplish something; attempt.
Philately. a design for a proposed stamp differing in any way from the design of the stamp as issued.
Obsolete. a tentative effort; trial; assay.
verb (used with object)
to try; attempt.
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Origin of essay
1475–85; <Middle French essayer, cognate with Anglo-French assayer to assay <Late Latin exagium a weighing, equivalent to *exag(ere), for Latin exigere to examine, test, literally, to drive out (see exact) + -ium-ium
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How to use essay in a sentence
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As several of my colleagues commented, the result is good enough that it could pass for an essay written by a first-year undergraduate, and even get a pretty decent grade.
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GPT-3 also raises concerns about the future of essay writing in the education system.
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This little essay helps focus on self-knowledge in what you’re best at, and how you should prioritize your time.
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As Steven Feldstein argues in the opening essay, technonationalism plays a part in the strengthening of other autocracies too.
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He’s written a collection of essays on civil engineering life titled Bridginess, and to this day he and Lauren go on “bridge dates,” where they enjoy a meal and admire the view of a nearby span.
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I think a certain kind of compelling essay has a piece of that.
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The current attack on the Jews,” he wrote in a 1937 essay, “targets not just this people of 15 million but mankind as such.
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The impulse to interpret seems to me what makes personal essay writing compelling.
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To be honest, I think a lot of good essay writing comes out of that.
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Someone recently sent me an old Joan Didion essay on self-respect that appeared in Vogue.
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There is more of the uplifted forefinger and the reiterated point than I should have allowed myself in an essay.
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Consequently he was able to turn in a clear essay upon the subject, which, upon examination, the king found to be free from error.
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It is no part of the present essay to attempt to detail the particulars of a code of social legislation.
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But angels and ministers of grace defend us from ministers of religion who essay art criticism!
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It is fit that the imagination, which is free to go through all things, should essay such excursions.
British Dictionary definitions for essay
noun (ˈɛseɪ, for senses 2, 3 also ɛˈseɪ)
a short literary composition dealing with a subject analytically or speculatively
an attempt or endeavour; effort
a test or trial
verb (ɛˈseɪ) (tr)
to attempt or endeavour; try
to test or try out
Word Origin for essay
C15: from Old French essaier to attempt, from essai an attempt, from Late Latin exagium a weighing, from Latin agere to do, compel, influenced by exigere to investigate
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Cultural definitions for essay
A short piece of writing on one subject, usually presenting the author’s own views. Michel de Montaigne, Francis Bacon (see also Bacon), and Ralph Waldo Emerson are celebrated for their essays.
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