173 Verbs to Use for the Word significance

It gives a new significance to the fact that I am.

I asked myself; not at once grasping the grim significance of that little hill of ash.

"The preliminaries were well under way, without my appreciating their significance, until one of my officer escorts explained.

" The others understood the significance of that strange rumbling aboard the German vessel as quickly as Frank, and turning rapidly, they struck out as fast as they could.

Composed originally as a song of seed-time, it has now lost its primary significance and is sung by men at their work or by mothers hushing their children in the dark alleys of the city.

"Perhaps," added Miss Van Rolsen, "you attach no significance to the fact?"

The dirt on their faces was fairly stratified, and seemed so ancient and so undisturbed it might almost possess a geological significance.

Others have assumed a significance somewhat ungen-like, though the relationship may be traced if you are not averse to trouble, Thus engine in its superficial aspects seems alien to the idea of born.

Still dazed and uncertain, I arose staggering to my feet, conscious at last that the man must actually be dead, yet, for the moment, so surprised by the discovery as to scarcely realize its significance.

Then these detached and meaningless words took on a significance which she could not afford to ignore: Ap A change.

But the plant no doubt acquired its ominous significance from its having been largely used to bestrew the tombs of the dead; the Greek term "dehisthai selinou"to be in need of parsleywas a common phrase employed to denote those on the point of death.

Yet he did not even then realise to the full the significance of our capture of the town.

It is only a personal account of an individual experience, yet in it may be found the real significance and the real tragedy of war; for, after the fighting is over, after the intoxication of legalized murder has gone, after nations turn their attention from victories to men, it is the aggregate of individual experiences which counts the costs of war.

Yet, is it not possible that it has, all along, held a deeper significance, a hintcould one but have guessedof the greater, more stupendous Pit that lies far down in the earth, beneath this old house?

"Of all the eyes which witnessed that episode, seemingly so slight and so unimportant," he said, proudly, "mine were the only ones which saw its full significance.

"Both child and man," says Froebel, "desire to know the significance of what happens around them; this is the foundation of Greek choruses, especially in tragedy, and of many productions in the realm of legends and fairy-tales.

Two out of the five, Economy and Simplicity, more specially derive their significance from intellectual needs; another two, Climax and Variety, from emotional needs; and between these is the Law of Sequence, which is intermediate in its nature, and may be claimed with equal justice by both.

While we all rejoice, yet the mother in Israel, alone of us all, comprehends its full significance.

But for her he was no longer the same man, because she saw him differently; knowing much more of him, she read in his features a thousand minor significances to which before she had been blind.

Where?" ejaculated Kurt, quick to catch a significance in the other's words.

We thus perceive the significance of the apothegm, "Truth is stranger than fiction."

Terms change their significance from generation to generation.

The signatories to that address recognized the true significance of this travel.

In her blind rage again Evelyn missed the significance of his words.

He attempted to kiss away the tears, but she drew back, and went on to say: "At that time I learned the bitter significance of the law, 'The child shall follow the condition of the mother.'

173 Verbs to Use for the Word  significance