SOLVE in a Sentence

Learn SOLVE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
116 example sentences for SOLVE, such as:
1. Help me to solve my financial troubles.
2. are the only initials we have to solve.
3. She tried her best to solve the problem.
4. We must figure out how to solve the problem.
5. You can't solve anything by just running away.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of SOLVE
solve
 v.  find the solution
 v.  settle, as of a debt
Classic Sentence: (73 in 5 pages)
1  How to get Drebber to that house was the difficult problem which I had now to solve.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
2  But the problem the animals could not at first solve was how to break up the stone into pieces of suitable size.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI
3  And that's the only way to solve the industrial problem: train the people to be able to live and live in handsomeness, without needing to spend.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
4  It is quite too transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY
5  Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away these bleak autumnal evenings.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR
6  At that hour we shall be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the mystery.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES
7  It is a formidable difficulty, and I fear that you ask too much when you expect me to solve it.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15. A Retrospection
8  If it is a purely arbitrary one, it may be impossible for us to solve it.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
9  "That is the problem which we are now about to solve," said Sherlock Holmes.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
10  are the only initials we have to solve.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. THE ADVENTURE OF BLACK PETER
11  Upon the fourth day there appeared a long telegram from Paris which seemed to solve the whole question.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND STAIN
12  I fancied that if I could solve their puzzles I should find myself in possession of powers that might be of use against the Morlocks.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In VIII
13  However, leaving that mystery to solve itself, or go unsolved for ever, he drove his task onward with earnest haste and ecstasy.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XX.THE MINISTER IN A MAZE
14  Biddy's first triumph in her new office, was to solve a difficulty that had completely vanquished me.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XVI
15  She could not solve the problem her father had unconsciously set her by his goodhumored view of her friends, and of the life that had so attracted her.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 35
Example Sentence: (43 in 3 pages)
1  He assured us of his ability to solve the problem.
2  You can't solve anything by just running away.
3  You can solve any problem if you apply yourself.
4  We must solve this problem by argument not by fighting.
5  Providing homeless people with somewhere to stay when the weather is cold only skates round the problem, it doesn't solve it.
6  The new speed limit does not solve the problem, but it is a step in the right direction.
7  Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
8  We must figure out how to solve the problem.
9  Help me to solve my financial troubles.
10  Some people still fondly believe that modern science can solve all the world's problems.
11  A panel of experts gave its opinion on ways to solve the traffic problem.
12  I dreamed up a plan to solve both problems at once.
13  She tried her best to solve the problem.
14  The only way to solve homelessness is to provide more homes.
15  I'm sorry to barge in like this, but I have a problem I hope you can solve.