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Comprise
"Comprise" in a Sentence (21 examples)
It is beyond the scope of the present work to describe all the components that comprise Emmet's architectural style.
Uyghurs comprise the majority in Kashgar.
Though very outspoken, purists do not comprise the majority on Tatoeba.
Seven thousand languages are spoken all over the world, and taken together, they comprise the largest collection of human knowledge that has ever existed.
How many days comprise a leap year?
Workers in these factories comprise a large percentage of immigrants.
Regulatory bodies, like the people who comprise them, have a marked life cycle. In youth they are vigorous, aggressive, evangelistic, and even intolerant. Later they mellow, and in old age—after a matter of ten or fifteen years—they become, with some exceptions, either an arm of the industry they are regulating or senile.
The pisiform bone is one of eight tiny bones that comprise the wrist.
That didn't comprise any malicious intent.
Tourism, retail sales, and finance comprise more than three-quarters of GDP.
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Near-synonyms: subsume, contain, include, embrace, comprehend
The whole comprises the parts.
The parts are comprised by the whole.
Our committee comprises a president, secretary, treasurer and five other members.
Arsenal were playing without a recognised full-back - their defence comprising four centre-halves - and the lack of width was hindering their progress.
Near-synonym: make up
The whole is comprised of the parts.
The parts comprise the whole.
1657, Isaac Barrow, Data (Euclid) (translation), Prop. XXX "Seeing then the angles comprised of equal right lines are equal, we have found the angle FDE equal to the angle ABC."
Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local color) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.
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