Sentences with effect
ef·fect
E e - Parents worry about the effect of music on their adolescent's behavior. [+ of/on]
- The whole effect is cool, light and airy.
- Amid heightened concerns about SARS, the US economy is starting to feel the effects of the deadly new strain of pneumonia.
- The so-called 'Kylie effect ' could help reduce deaths from breast cancer as more women are screened for the disease.
- His daughters were collecting his effects.
- Prospects for effecting real political change seemed to have taken a major step backwards. [VERB noun]
- Albedo can have a disastrous effect on the planet.
- SYNONYMY NOTE: effect is applied to that which is directly produced by an action, process, or agent and is the exact correlative of cause; consequence suggests that which follows something else on which it is dependent in some way, but does not connote as direct a connection with cause; result stresses that which is finally brought about by the effects or consequences of an action, process, etc.; , issue, in this connection, suggests a result in which there is emergence from difficulties or conflict; , outcome refers to the result of something that was in doubt
- With no effect
- The law comes into effect at midnight
- The Doppler effect
- The effect of a painting
- A law of little effect
- The drug had a cathartic effect
- He spoke to this effect
- To do something just for effect
- Striking cloud effects
- The law goes into effect today
- Household effects
- To effect a compromise
- 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 new law will come into effect on the first day of next year.
- The effect of flying was most convincing.
- I use an echo effect here to make the sound more mysterious. I just bought a couple of great effects.
- Doppler effect
- The best way to effect change is to work with existing stakeholders.
- Exposure to the sun had the effect of toughening his skin.
- His protest had no effect.
- To bring a plan into effect.
- She disapproved of the proposal and wrote to that effect.
- We had the feeling that the big, expensive car was only for effect.
- A three-dimensional effect.
- The Doppler effect.
- The new machines finally effected the transition to computerized accounting last spring.
- His silence was in effect a confirmation of the rumor.
- The prescribed medicine failed to take effect.