COMPRISE in a Sentence
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27 example sentences for COMPRISE, such as:
1. Three months comprised thirteen weeks.
2. A cricket team is comprised of eleven players.
3. It appeared to comprise a poulterer's premises.
4. These observations comprise the whole of the case.
5. The house comprises two bedrooms, a kitchen, and a living room.
2. A cricket team is comprised of eleven players.
3. It appeared to comprise a poulterer's premises.
4. These observations comprise the whole of the case.
5. The house comprises two bedrooms, a kitchen, and a living room.
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Meanings and Examples of COMPRISE
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comprise
v. include; consist of; be composed of
Classic Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1 These observations comprise the whole of the case.
2 After the waste of a few minutes in saying the proper nothings, she began to give the invitation which was to comprise all the remaining dues of the Musgroves.
3 I have just received your letter, and shall devote this whole morning to answering it, as I foresee that a little writing will not comprise what I have to tell you.
4 Nor do heroes, saints, demigods, and prophets alone comprise the whole roll of our order.
5 It appeared to comprise a poulterer's premises.
6 At the period of our arrival at the Island, the heaviest storage of the Pequod had been almost completed; comprising her beef, bread, water, fuel, and iron hoops and staves.
7 As a general thing, these ship-keepers are as hardy fellows as the men comprising the boats' crews.
8 Hougomont viewed on the map, as a geometrical plan, comprising buildings and enclosures, presents a sort of irregular rectangle, one angle of which is nicked out.
9 To gain the sympathy and cooperation of the various elements comprising the white South was Mr. Washington's first task; and this, at the time Tuskegee was founded, seemed, for a black man, well-nigh impossible.
10 My first quarter at Lowood seemed an age; and not the golden age either; it comprised an irksome struggle with difficulties in habituating myself to new rules and unwonted tasks.
11 comprised in your initials written in books you have at different times lent me; but I never asked for what name it stood.
12 In Lydia's imagination, a visit to Brighton comprised every possibility of earthly happiness.
13 Of this seventy-two feet, his skull and jaw comprised some twenty feet, leaving some fifty feet of plain back-bone.
14 Three months comprised thirteen weeks.
15 Chichikov replied that such cases were common, since nature comprised many things which even the finest intellect could not compass.
Example Sentence:
1 If the District of Columbia were to be granted statehood, the United States of America would comprise fifty-one states, not just fifty.
2 The task force is comprised of congressional leaders, cabinet heads and administration officials.
3 Two small boys and a dog comprised the street entertainer's only audience.
4 At its fullest extent the Angevin Empire comprised most of western France.
5 A cricket team is comprised of eleven players.
6 The house comprises two bedrooms, a kitchen, and a living room.
7 The course comprises a class book, a practice book and an audio tape.