CONSTITUTE in a Sentence
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181 example sentences for CONSTITUTE, such as:
1. The universities constitute a reservoir of expert knowledge.
2. The present constitution gives supreme authority to the presidency.
3. The concept of individual liberty is enshrined in the constitution.
4. No society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law.
5. This agony and this immortality are about to join and constitute our death.
2. The present constitution gives supreme authority to the presidency.
3. The concept of individual liberty is enshrined in the constitution.
4. No society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law.
5. This agony and this immortality are about to join and constitute our death.
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Meanings and Examples of CONSTITUTE
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constitute
v. set up or lay the groundwork for
v. to compose or represent:
Classic Sentence: (133 in 9 pages)
1 The walls were white, the tables were black; these two mourning colors constitute the only variety in convents.
2 His tendency, and we say it with the proper amount of regret, would not constitute classic taste.
3 The elements which constitute the consideration of the gamins for each other are very various.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—THE GAMIN SHOULD HAVE HIS PLACE IN THE CLASSI...
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—THE GAMIN SHOULD HAVE HIS PLACE IN THE CLASSI...
4 They constitute two different orders of facts which correspond to each other, which are always interlaced, and which often bring forth results.
5 This agony and this immortality are about to join and constitute our death.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT O...
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT O...
6 A platoon of the National Guard would constitute itself on its own authority a private council of war, and judge and execute a captured insurgent in five minutes.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—DISORDER A PARTISAN OF ORDER
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—DISORDER A PARTISAN OF ORDER
7 In the meanwhile, how disheartening to see the woman one loves long for those thousands of nothings which constitute a woman's happiness, and be unable to give her those thousands of nothings.
8 He would not have believed that two sentiments so opposite could dwell in the same heart, and by their union constitute a passion so strange, and as it were, diabolical.
9 But the meal did not constitute by any means the best of which Chichikov had ever partaken, seeing that some of the dishes were overcooked, and others were scarcely cooked at all.
10 Also, such crowds of feminine shoppers began to repair to the Bazaar as almost to constitute a crush, and something like a procession of carriages ensued, so long grew the rank of vehicles.
11 Every one of them had made up her mind to use upon him her every weapon, and to exhibit whatsoever might chance to constitute her best point.
12 At the present moment the master of the house was engaged in giving the cook orders for what, under the guise of an early breakfast, promised to constitute a veritable dinner.
13 My whole idea is that if vicious people are united and constitute a power, then honest folk must do the same.
14 These are things which may swell your strength but do not constitute it, being in themselves null and of no avail without an army on which you can depend.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X.
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X.
15 Once more, therefore, I repeat that not gold but good soldiers constitute the sinews of war.
Example Sentence: (48 in 4 pages)
1 The universities constitute a reservoir of expert knowledge.
2 Testing patients without their consent would constitute a professional and legal offence.
3 Please refer to the Policy commentary for details of what items should not constitute part of the breakdown account.
4 "I never did see the beat of that boy!" She went to the open door and stood in it and looked out among the tomato vines that would constitute the garden.
5 It was political theatre: epic for some, farce for others and tragic for many more; the Catalan parliament voted today, October 27th, to declare independence and constitute Catalonia as a republic.
6 They felt that our discussions with other companies constituted a breach of/in our agreement.
7 The items used were derived from data from participant observation, and therefore constituted a re-presentation of items to the community.
8 The committee had been improperly constituted, and therefore had no legal power.
9 The president agreed to amend the constitution and allow multi-party elections.
10 The American constitution was planned; the British constitution evolved.
11 The present constitution gives supreme authority to the presidency.
12 The lack of a written constitution is a peculiarity of the British political system.
13 No society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law.
14 Parliament remains the central institution of the constitution of the United Kingdom.
15 The concept of individual liberty is enshrined in the constitution.