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"Effect" in a Sentence (35 examples)
Smoking has an ill effect upon health.
A scientist had to know how to ask the correct question and to state it so clearly that the answer would be, in effect, a definite yes or no, not "maybe".
In music or speaking, a pause is frequently used for dramatic effect.
Pollution has a disastrous effect on the ecology of a region.
The rain had a good effect on the farm's crops.
The doctor spoke to the effect that my father would soon get better.
It had an effect alien from the one intended.
We were all surprised at the effect the news had on him.
We have a saying to the effect that a good neighbor is better than a faraway relative.
Benson and Holmes analyzed the psychological effect of artificial insemination on parents.
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The effect of the hurricane was a devastated landscape.
The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed.
The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. […] The bed was the most extravagant piece. Its graceful cane halftester rose high towards the cornice and was so festooned in carved white wood that the effect was positively insecure, as if the great couch were trimmed with icing sugar.
The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.
patchwork […] introduced for oratorical effect
The effect was heightened by the wild and lonely nature of the place.
That no compunctious visitings of nature / Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between / The effect and it.
The new law will come into effect on the first day of next year.
The effect of flying was most convincing.
The colored bands of color that strobe through much of the text and other visual elements are perhaps the most prototypical of all Amiga demoscene effects and, again, are a direct result of the hardware on which Megademo was created to run.
I use an echo effect here to make the sound more mysterious.
I just bought a couple of great effects.
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therapeutic effect
The tenant shall pay for the repair of, or replace all such items of the fixtures, fittings, furniture and effects as shall be broken, lost, damaged or destroyed during that time.
His Goods, Family, and all his Effects were also ſeiz'd every where, and his Family carried into Priſon.
They spake to her to that effect.
no other in effect than what it seems
All the large effects / That troop with majesty.
The best way to effect change is to work with existing stakeholders.
The offence thus given naturally effected an entire conversion in the queen's sentiments, and when Arthur returned from hunting, like Potiphar's wife, she charges Launfal with attempting her honour.
The punishment for sodomy, when completely effected, was death, and it was frequently inflicted.
The transfer by tender of some 1,300 mail bags was effected smartly, and the "Ocean Mails Special" train was ready at 9.19 a.m.
Mr. Kim was again elected chairman, and a committee of forty was authorized to draw up regulations for the church to be submitted to a full convention, probably in April. Only south Korea delegates were present at this meeting. Hence, the delay until April was effected in order to give time to bring in the Christians of north Korea.
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