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Sentences with substance. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use substance in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for substance.

• His cabin and his substance! (10)
• We know not of what substance to name them. (10)
• Or had it really body and substance of its own? (8)
• All the better when the substance is indigestible. (10)
• I have told you the substance of all that she said. (4)
• They would never grasp a shadow and miss a substance. (8)
• March repeated the substance of this talk to his wife. (9)
• For the sake of a passing shadow, to give up substance? (8)
• But the spirit fed With substance of the flower takes all its bloom! (10)
• Dr. Wardan liked the frame of the observations, disliked the substance. (10)
• This, as well as I understand, is to be the substance of my information. (4)
• They would be satisfied with the forms of liberty without the substance. (18)
• This, then, was the substance of what he remembered as he lay ill in bed. (8)
• A strange, discoloured, folded substance lay on the floor of the carriage. (10)
• A strange, discoloured, folded substance lay on the floor of the carriage. (22)
• The substance of this letter was forwarded to Emma, in a note from Mrs. Weston, instantly. (4)
• Beauchamp saw him planting a white substance most carefully at the breast buttonhole of his coat. (10)
• He must have gone thither to seek once more for the lost substance after she had helped him to bed. (5)
• Its very substance and main purpose are to deprive suspected persons of the speedy trial they desire. (14)
• The side of the box showed that it had been made adhesive, for the sake of security, to another substance. (10)
• The side of the box showed that it had been made adhesive, for the sake of security, to another substance. (22)
• This was the substance of the letter, which upon the whole, satisfied me, and I waited anxiously for the reply. (6)
• But she was eminently practical, and a woman of courage, who never pursued a shadow in preference to its substance. (8)
• The exact substance of the interview he forbore to relate to his inquisitive daughter, with a very honourable discretion. (10)
• The roe is held together by a net-work of delicate fibres and a gelatinous substance not unlike thin starch in appearance. (20)
• It appeared to him at first to surround some perfectly black substance, and it was somewhat more than a half-inch in diameter. (1)
• He was of good family; his people were people of substance and condition, and he could have had an easier life there than here. (9)
• The room seemed to have turned to a thick white substance like a cloud, in which he lay enwrapped, unable to move hand or foot. (8)
• Elizabeth was forced to give into a little falsehood here; for to acknowledge the substance of their conversation was impossible. (4)
• They could walk, and hold themselves up; there was substance in their good looks; the modern woman had no build, no chest, no anything! (8)
• But before he lifted his head from the pillow, it gathered substance and weight against which it needed all his will to bear up and live. (9)
• The theory of mixtures of both cement mortar and concrete is to proportion the materials so that they produce the most compact substance. (17)
• I married her at forty, you know, when a woman has reached her perfect development, and leans a trifle more to ceremonies than to substance. (10)
• Silent, but quivering all over; she clung to him in the hall; and this passion of emotion, without sound to give it substance, affected him profoundly. (8)
• Had Lydia and her mother known the substance of her conference with her father, their indignation would hardly have found expression in their united volubility. (4)

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Definition of substance:

• substance, sub’stans, n. that in which qualities or attributes exist, the existence to which qualities belong: that which constitutes anything what it is: the essential part: body: matter: property: foundation, ground, confidence. (0)

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