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How to use adam in a sentence

38 example sentences · noun

Adam means the day or night before an eve; two days or nights before a holiday, most commonly Christmas. Example: “Adam Smith conceived of economics as a moral science in the Humean sense.”

More sentences with adam

  • Adam Smith conceived of economics as a moral science in the Humean sense.From the entry moral science
  • Adam is the baby of the family.From the entry baby
  • Adam Smith claimed that a capitalist is, quote, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention, unquote.From the entry quote unquote
  • Adam Gopnik has, by many accounts, including his own, a lovely life.2017 December 8, Hadley Freeman, “Adam Gopnik: ‘You’re waltzing along and suddenly you’re portrayed as a monster of privilege’”, in The…. From the entry manhattan
  • Adams had a double-double, too, with 14 points and 10 rebounds at center.2016 November 28, Mike Vorkunov, “Despite Flash of Rose’s Prime, Knicks Are Dazed by Westbrook and Thunder”, in The New York Times…. From the entry double double
  • Adam was making a plappering noise in his sleep like a horse.2016, Stuart Walton, The First Day in Paradise. From the entry plapper
  • Adam would rather see him spend more time among his merbrothers and women.2015, Fabion Harris, chapter 4, in Pure: A Mermaid Story, Lulu, →ISBN, page 13. From the entry merbrother
  • Adam and Novikovas swapped long-range efforts, neither of which troubled the respective keepers.2012 August 23, Alasdair Lamont, “Hearts 0-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport. From the entry respective
  • Adam and Eve caused a rift to come between peoplekind and God.2011, Fredrick James Terriere, End of Man, page 525. From the entry peoplekind
  • Adam found himself answering the viewer's questions while also trying to cook—which threw him off his game.2008 July 28, Christopher Rocchio, “Aaron McCargo Jr. wins The Next Food Network Star's fourth season”, in Reality TV World, retrieved 09…. From the entry off one's game
  • Adam and John wind up drinking with Dirty Penny, helping to lube up the gladiatresses.2007 September, Steve Kandell, “Rocklahoma”, in Spin, New York, N.Y., page 88, column 3. From the entry gladiatress
  • Adam and Eve not only uglied up their own lives, but they uglied up the entire world.2005, Stephen M. Miller, Big Dummies of the Bible, page 4. From the entry ugly up
  • ADAM BERENDT, who canvassed through Rockland County on behalf of education, environmental, and gun control bond issues.2001, Joyce Carol Oates, “Prologue: Fourth of July”, in Middle Age: A Romance, New York, N.Y.: Ecco, →ISBN, section 7, page 5. From the entry canvass
  • Adam Kubert - I don't regularly read Wolverine, but not because of the art.1996 May 16, Lucas Hackett, “Rank the Current X-artists”, in rec.arts.comics.marvel.xbooks (Usenet). From the entry Wonder Womanesque
  • Adam had slammed down the telephone receiver and immediately given the order to abandon their position.[1988, Margaret Pemberton, chapter 12, in The Last Goodbye, Severn House, published 2007, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 200. From the entry Wong Nai Chung Gap
  • Adam himself bewildered and Eveless outside the garden; a Minotaur howling piteously in a labyrinth of money-worries.1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 132. From the entry piteously
  • Adam Schiff, a Democratic senator from California, called it a “very dangerous escalation and a prelude to potential conflict”.2025 December 11, Joseph Gedeon, quoting Adam Schiff, “US lawmakers condemn seizure of Venezuelan oil tanker: ‘Trump is sleepwalking us…. From the entry prelude
  • Adam Streisand, a lawyer for Mr Murdoch, told the New York Times they were disappointed and planned to appeal.2024 December 9, Christal Hayes, “Murdoch loses bid to change trust in real-life 'Succession' battle”, in BBC, archived from the original…. From the entry Streisand
  • ADAM: 'You are faced with overwhelming power.2021 October 8, Metroid Dread, Nintendo, Nintendo Switch, scene: Adam Briefing, level/area: Cataris. From the entry helplessness
  • Adam, who is admittedly risk-averse, kept his day job for the first 18 months after the family opened its business.2018 May 3, Stacey Jenkins, “Family Business on Tap at Reuben's Brews”, in Rewire. From the entry toe-dip
  • Adams was chairman or president, as they called him, the most choresome duty of his entire four years in Congress.2017, Anne Burleigh, John Adams, page 165. From the entry choresome
  • Adams, are you here?" The rods quickly responded yes.2014, Keith Grossl, The Final Hours of Darkness, page 59. From the entry gentlemen's room
  • Adam Perry Lang is at the opposite end of the grilling spectrum, a blingy S.U.V. to Mallmann’s muddy old Land Rover.2009 May 31, Christine Muhlke, “Cookbooks”, in New York Times. From the entry blingy
  • Adam had looked up and scampered to her.2008, Sandra Marton, Sarah Mayberry, Emilie Rose, Hot City Nights, Harlequin, →ISBN. From the entry pawpaw
  • Adam continued to moan in hypnotic agony.2007, Anthony Gioseffi, Mainframe. From the entry firedragon
  • Adam, my bro, an’ Pa’n’me was trekkin’ back from Honokaa Market on miry roads with a busted cart-axle in draggly clothesies.2004 March, David Mitchell, “Sloosha’s Crossin’ an’ Ev’rythin’ After”, in Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre, →ISBN, page 249. From the entry draggly
  • Adam in the garden, I am to new-name all the beasts of the field and all the gods in the sky.1987, Vernon Louis Parrington, The Romantic Revolution in America, 1800-1860, page 386. From the entry new-name
  • Adam was not above feeling flattered by friendliness in dogs.1930, Evelyn Waugh, chapter V, in Vile Bodies, New York: Back Bay Books, published 1999. From the entry cordiality
  • Adam, like the baby-in-waiting who narrates Nutshell, is an extraordinarily smart, well-informed, and unorthodox character who catches his supposed caretakers off-guard with his perspicacity.2019 April 23, Heller McAlpin, “In McEwan's Latest, The 'Machine' Is Too Much Like You”, in NPR. From the entry perspicacity
  • Adam presses several keys on the other handrest with his left hand as he continues to pound away on a button with his right.2018, Matthew Bok, The Adam Carter Saga, page 249. From the entry handrest
  • Adam Grant, who has an encyclopedic—should I say Wikipedic?—knowledge of the field, pointed me to relevant research that I wasn't aware of.2013, Roger M. Schwarz, Smart Leaders, Smarter Teams: How You and Your Team Get Unstuck to Get Results, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN. From the entry Wikipedic
  • Adam was a great soccer player.2012, Simon Keith, Jason Cole, Tom Yaeger, Heart for the Game: The Incredible Saga of Simon Keith, Nexus Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 36. From the entry all-everything
  • Adams didn't mind the work involved.2002 December 28, Martin Gurdon, “Now for something different...”, in The Daily Telegraph. From the entry banger racing
  • Adam Kadmon immediately contracted the thrush.1983, Robert Nye, The Facts of Life. From the entry milt
  • Adam requires a touch of feminine lace and a whisper of diaphanous silk, not a direct vision of the gaping maw of the human vulva.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London…. From the entry diaphanous
  • Adam is also a member of the class of ungreen things, and by virtue of being ungreen can be an icon for ungreen things.1973, Robert Snukal, High Talk: The Philosophical Poetry of W. B. Yeats, page 61. From the entry ungreen
  • Adam gave her—the spaniel, not Mrs.1930, Evelyn Waugh, chapter V, in Vile Bodies, New York: Back Bay Books, published 1999. From the entry cordiality
  • Adam appreciated Ann Arbor's “unmalled” downtown daily springing to life, people afoot, independent restaurants, bookstores, local shops, and all the rest making a city's core—large or small—a vibrant place.2016, Nicholas Aharon Boggioni, The Fundamentalist's Daughter, an American Story, page 29. From the entry unmalled

Meaning of adam

  1. noun The day or night before an eve; two days or nights before a holiday, most commonly Christmas.

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Questions about adam in a sentence

How do you use adam in a sentence?
Adam is used as a noun. For example: “Adam Smith conceived of economics as a moral science in the Humean sense.”
What is a short sentence with adam?
“Adam Kadmon immediately contracted the thrush.”
What does adam mean?
Adam means the day or night before an eve; two days or nights before a holiday, most commonly Christmas.

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