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"Initiate" in a Sentence (22 examples)
"I'll do my best" often means "I'll initiate nothing".
"I'll do my best" often means "I won't initiate anything".
To initiate the quest, first go to the tavern and talk to the quest-giver.
Politicians initiate wars, not ordinary people who suffer from them.
The high commissioner’s spokeswoman said the government had shown some willingness to initiate reforms.
We tell them that if anyone aborts a girl child, we will not hesitate to initiate legal action.
Elias tried to initiate some small talk.
The prime minister can initiate a vote of confidence.
The sound station's initiate recordings will be dogs barking excitedly, then falling silent as they lunge into their harnesses. Then it will be sled runners soughing in deep snow.
You shouldn't wait for changes to come – you should initiate them yourself.
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How are changes of this sort to be initiated?
Indigenous people, such as agriculturists, hunters, and pastoralists initiated a system of totemism and tabooism which in essence was a natural law against killing and eating certain animals.
A U235 bomb would therefore need to incorporate a gun weighing ten tons. Then there was the question of initiating or triggering the bomb.
Prior to firing the laser, a surgeon can preilluminate the area to be cut or ablated, enlarge or reduce the area, shape, or size, and then initiate the UV laser pulses for the actual ablation.
With the exception of anelloviruses, bidnaviruses, spiraviruses, and some inoviruses, the replicative protein of ssDNA viruses is the so-called HUH endonuclease that cuts genomic DNA at a specific site and initiates rolling circle (or rolling hairpin) replication.
Divine Providence would only initiate and enter mankind into the useful knowledge of her, leaving the rest to employ our industry.
to initiate his pupil in any part of learning
The Athenians believed that he who was initiated and instructed in the mysteries would obtain celestial honour after death.
He was initiated into half a dozen clubs before he was one and twenty.
The king himself initiates to the power; Scatters with quivering hand the sacred flour, And the stream sprinkles.
the initiate fear that wants hard use
To rise in science as in bliss, / Initiate in the secrets of the skies.
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