Resolve

//ɹɪˈzɑlv//

"Resolve" in a Sentence (36 examples)

The doctor's warning stiffened my resolve to stop drinking.

He made a resolve to stop smoking.

The problem will resolve itself eventually.

It is impossible to resolve the conflict.

The office staff worked quickly and efficiently to resolve the problem.

It was full of spider webs and stuff, but there didn't seem to be any other way to go, so we firmed up our resolve and went.

I want you to somehow resolve the situation as soon as possible, causing the least amount of trouble for my sister and those around us.

I hope that you are able to resolve the situation soon.

If you don't resolve to become a good man, then you just won't get a good woman.

You can resolve this as a system of equations.

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Exeter. Shall I call in Thambaſſadors my Liege? / King. Not yet my Couſin, til we be reſolude / Of ſome ſerious matters touching vs and France.

to resolve a riddle

Resolve my doubt.

If such a dreamy touch should fall, ⁠O turn thee round, resolve the doubt, ⁠My guardian angel will speak out In that high place, and tell thee all.

I resolve to finish this work before I go home.

At length, one night, when the company by ſome accident broke up much ſooner than ordinary, ſo that the candles were not half burnt out, ſhe was not able to reſiſt the temptation, but reſolved to have them ſome way or other. Accordingly, as ſoon as the hurry was over, and the ſervants, as ſhe thought, all gone to ſleep, ſhe ſtole out of her bed, and went down ſtairs, naked to her ſhift as ſhe was, with a deſign to ſteal them […]

He was resolved by an unexpected event.

Gentlemen, importune me no farther, / For hovv I firmly am reſolu'd you knovv: / That is, not to beſtovv my yongeſt daughter, / Before I haue a husband for the elder: […]

After two weeks of bickering, they finally resolved their differences.

O, that this too too solid flesh would melt, / Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew!

And ye Immortal Souls, that once vvere Men, / And novv reſolv’d to Elements agen.

In health, good air, pleasure, riches, I am resolved it cannot be equalled by any region.

We must be resolved how the law can be pure and perspicuous, and yet throw a polluted skirt over these Eleusinian mysteries.

Reſolve me Reaſon, vvhich of theſe is vvorſe, / VVant vvith a full, or vvith an empty purſe: […]

She was proceeding in this manner when the surgeon entered the room. The lieutenant immediately asked how his patient did. But he resolved him only by saying, "Better, I believe, than he would have been by this time, if I had not been called; and even as it is, perhaps it would have been lucky if I could have been called sooner."

The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.

With milke-white Hartes vpon an Iuorie ſled, / Thou ſhalt be drawen amidſt the froſen Pooles, / And ſcale the yſie mountaines lofty tops: / Which with thy beautie will be soone reſolu’d.

When the blood stagnates in any part, it first coagulates, then resolves, and turns alkaline.

resolve himself into all sports and looseness again

It took all my resolve to go through with the surgery.

Stripped of all bravado, Cersei breaks, and shows the very scared, vulnerable woman who has kept her emotions at bay. “I don’t want to die,” she whimpers, “Not like this.” It’s all the more moving for coming from a character who built her identity on steely resolve and contempt for such hoary conceits as fear.

Alan Pardew's current squad has been put together with a relatively low budget but the resolve and unity within the team is priceless.

I wish for unending resolve, to always get up when I fall.

And the having individually entertained four such resolves, without perceiving that once brought together, they all mutually expire; this, this ineffable folly, Pierre, brands thee in the forehead for an unaccountable infatuate!

His resolve to die is weakening as he grows accustomed to Sophie's absence, and all his attempts to master irresolution only augment it.

Some operations require data that, in turn, requires that lightweight components be resolved. In these cases, this option determines whether the user is prompted to approve the resolve or whether components are just resolved automatically.

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