Sentence for performance | Use performance in a sentence

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• And a very silly performance. (9)
• His performance was the same. (10)
• I have heard of a faithful performance. (4)
• The Countess observed the performance. (10)
• They talked at first only of the performance. (4)
• Laughter at the performance had fairly set in. (10)
• He is not required for any outrageous performance. (10)
• I strung myself to pass through the same performance. (10)
• So his rehearsals had gone; it was the performance now! (8)
• Her performance was pleasing, though by no means capital. (4)
• The one performance would be not more wonderful than the other. (10)
• Sixty years ago, her simple performance fairly dazed spectators. (21)
• The unusual performance had a meaning; she felt she was praised. (10)
• He turned the leaves, comparing her modesty with the performance. (10)
• This was the first performance of a German opera on a public stage. (3)
• We seemed to have sat down to a solitary performance on the bass-viol. (10)
• It was a man with marionnettes announcing a performance for that evening. (2)
• The performance was checked by another look solid as shot, and as quick. (10)
• The work of stripping the larger tent continues throughout the performance. (21)
• Mr. Pericles and Emilia exchanged scientific glances during the performance. (10)
• He would not have done that had he not smelled sympathy with the performance. (10)
• Rainy weather, preventing performance and profit, may be a companion for months. (21)
• She did not even perceive the opportunity offered to her for a wily performance. (10)
• She did not even perceive the opportunity offered to her for a wily performance. (22)
• I do not wait till after the performance, when it is too late to revive illusion. (10)
• There is simply a performance to be given, and she is not playing to any one person. (21)
• I could see no other antithesis to the laudable performance of the single mouse of fable. (10)
• For two weeks, he thought of this absurd performance as a comical and agreeable diversion. (10)
• For two weeks, he thought of this absurd performance as a comical and agreeable diversion. (22)
• Indulgences, plenary and partial, follow on the performance of the duties of the Association. (2)
• The judge stated that in his opinion the evidence showed that the performance was ridiculous. (16)
• Admission to the circus carried with it only the privilege of viewing the performance standing. (21)
• Though her performance might be called only a perilous feat, she felt it to be true, genuine art. (5)
• The act does not interfere with her other performance and she is in receipt of a handsome income. (21)
• Do I then really wish that I had taken life in the performance of a duty as well performed without? (1)
• I value my own natural gifts (as I think I have a right) but set no great store by my performance. (14)
• If sudden rain comes on during the performance, he varies his sales with the disposal of umbrellas. (21)
• The dog they had with them gazed at the extraordinary performance with interrogating wags of the tail. (10)
• We took to the paddle with glad hearts, like people who have sat out a noble performance and returned to work. (2)
• Mrs. Val Dartie, who sat with her husband in the third row, squeezed his hand more than once during the performance. (8)
• This is one of the secrets of the arena which probably no one who has witnessed the unique performance ever divined. (21)
• To repeat this performance on the one stretched to the steeple would certainly not be expected from her or from any other. (5)
• This is almost a weekly performance and causes Hassan to breathe awful Egyptian imprecations against modern American furniture. (21)
• Mrs. Kenton smiled rather bitterly, in recognition of the fact that the performance of their common duty must fall wholly to her. (9)
• Supposing he did not relish the performance, he could enjoy a spell in the open air, he said, and this he speedily decided to do. (10)
• There were recitations in English and German, and songs from several people who had kindly consented, and ever more piano performance. (9)
• The word for the performance of those duties is Toryism: a word with an older flavour than Conservatism, and Mr. Tuckham preferred it. (10)
• After supper Frau Schimmel helped the mother to bathe the little Zeno and to put him to bed, and Melchior also assisted at the performance. (5)
• He was one of the first general clowns, and did a drunken act on stilts that convulsed the house, but was a hazardous performance, withal. (21)
• His performance was so extraordinary that some of those present agreed to give Liszt a pension for six years to insure his proper education. (3)
• In the old days of the clown, when one ring furnished satisfying enjoyment, his was a very important and conspicuous part of the performance. (21)
• It can hardly be doubted that a style of performance that was esteemed in the 15th, was perfectly satisfactory to the ears of the 10th century. (3)
• Circus rehearsals are delayed until two or three days before the formal opening, which affords ample time for guaranteeing a smooth performance. (21)
• He invited her to exchange bows over wine, in the fashion of that day, and the Countess went through the performance with finished grace and ease. (10)
• Trainers aver that after a lapse of half a century the elephant will conduct his performance as perfectly as if but twenty-four hours had gone by. (21)
• Her whole soul was merged in the desire to execute, boldly and yet gracefully, the greatest and most perfect performance attainable by a ropedancer. (5)
• The performance was well under way, and the menagerie tent was being rapidly emptied of its collection of animals and cages, when the man returned. (21)
• High social breeding is an exquisite performance on the instrument we are, and his behaviour to her left her mind at liberty for appreciation of it. (10)
• His performance was marked by earnestness and attention to the inner sentiment of the music rather than by the superficial polish of the mere pianist. (3)
• For instance, the power leaves her when the performance closes for the night, and does not develop again until she is on exhibition the following day. (21)
• Ten minutes after the performance has begun, there is a scattering of the executive force at the main tent entrance and the canvasmen take possession. (21)
• The character of Herr Johannes he entirely discarded: an Imperial officer in his uniform, sword in belt, could scarcely continue that meek performance. (10)
• In performance of this sacred duty he blundered now and again, did certain things incorrectly, and others which he did correctly were done over and over. (1)
• The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance. (4)
• The side-show may be justly termed a continuous performance, as there is always something going on to entertain the visitors, who are continually dropping in. (21)
• The sight of the Frenchman chattering angrily at the unconcerned furry humorist after their performance is a weekly source of merriment in the menagerie tent. (21)
• The scherzos are original conceptions quite distinct from the accepted type; they have bold outlines, variety of mood and demand virtuosity in their performance. (3)
• Neither of these distinct divisions of non-laughers and over-laughers would be entertained by reading The Rape of the Lock, or seeing a performance of Le Tartuffe. (10)

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