Entail

//ɛnˈteɪl//

"Entail" in a Sentence (23 examples)

The project will entail great expense upon the company.

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Speaking the same language in between several cultures sometimes is a source of more confusion than to speak different languages, since we are less aware of the different meanings that the same words can entail.

When "alpha divides the product of beta and gamma" never fails to entail "alpha divides beta" or "alpha divides gamma," then alpha is prime.

If the opposition were to win, it would not entail a radical departure from current policies.

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What does war entail?

Samuel R. Delany is a mulatto American sci-fi writer. His interesting writings often entail sexual issues in an outer space setting. Whilst the writings of the British knighted sci-fi writer Arthur C. Clarke are less titillating, he ventures into cryptic sexual symbolisms.

According to the Academy's code of conduct, such consequences could entail "suspension of membership or expulsion from membership."

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This activity will entail careful attention to detail.

What mattered to Hegel, and now Leach, is a presupposedly, historically necessary evolution in the structure of political power, entailing the creation of new classes of powerless victims to be sacrificed on the altar of abstract ideological concepts (i.e., “choice”).

God's immateriality entails the divine attribute of incorporeality, that God is neither a body nor embodied.

It also entailed well-documented disadvantages: a population increase in an unsustaining economy, a battered self-identity, a plague of substance abuse.

Mr. Bennet's property consisted almost entirely in an estate of two thousand a year, which, unfortunately for his daughters, was entailed, in default of heirs male, on a distant relation; and their mother's fortune, though ample for her situation in life, could but ill supply the deficiency of his.

1754-1762, David Hume, The History of England Allowing them to entail their estates.

I here entail The crown to thee and to thine heirs forever.

Apparently, Henry VII visited the city [Bristol] in 1487, "taking care to entail a sumptuary fine on the citizens because their wives dressed too gaudily".

To entail him and his heirs unto the crown.

All bard with golden bendes, which were entayld / With curious antickes

A power of breaking the ancient entails, and of alienating their estates.

All land acquired by inheritance must follow the Khasi law of entail, by which property descends from the mother to the youngest daughter, and again from the latter to her youngest daughter.

A worke of rich entayle.

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