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made up of (composed of); or included- The university is comprised of six colleges.
comprised = made up of (composed of)
- The Senate is comprised of 100 senators — two from each state.
- Sales of drugs comprise over half of the drug store's business.
- He moved to the top of the rock ridge that comprised the bluff over his shelter and was pleased to find a large, flat stone area.Gary Paulsen -- Hatchet
- She danced with rapture, with passion, intoxicated by pleasure, forgetting all in the triumph of her beauty, in the glory of her success, in a sort of cloud of happiness comprised of all this homage, admiration, these awakened desires and of that sense of triumph which is so sweet to woman's heart.Guy de Maupassant -- The Diamond Necklace
- Packingtown comprised three wards of the city, and the vote in the spring of 1903 had been 500, and in the fall of the same year, 1,600.Upton Sinclair -- The Jungle
- That small and active fragment now dominated; the rest comprised an absence hardly to be endured.James Hilton -- Lost Horizon
- And our seeing and knowing will comprise a consciousness of how inescapably this one man's life will confront us ten million fold in the days to come.Richard Wright -- Native Son
- For in my own way I comprised it, my yearning and wishing and my wanton hope, the sum of which, at end, amounted to a complete and utter fraudulence.Chang-rae Lee -- A Gesture Life
- Every tongue assuredly would come short, by reason of our speech and our memory that have small capacity to comprise so much.Dante Alighieri -- Dante's Inferno
- His world is insular, Lieutenant, comprised for the most part of himself alone.J.D. Robb -- Glory in Death
- They comprised a sequence of photographs showing a crowd of people passing through metal detectors in one of the airport's international terminals.Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum
- Most of Illea is comprised of these lower castes, and we have overlooked these people far too long.Kiera Cass -- The Selection
- These are they who are generally known as "commonplace people," and this class comprises, of course, the immense majority of mankind.Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Idiot
- One, it seemed to Annie, was comprised of obligations and the other of possibilities.Nicholas Evans -- The Horse Whisperer
- It was almost impossible: on earth, proteins were part of the cell wall, and comprised all the enzymes known to man.Michael Crichton -- The Andromeda Strain
- The team was comprised of seven ocean-engineering majors, three mechanical-engineering students, and two computer science majors.Joshua Davis -- Spare Parts
- I comprise, therefore, under this term the whole moral and intellectual condition of a people.Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 1
- Some even dared claim that Heaven was comprised of an immortal aristocracy of wilful hedonists who played games with the world.Roger Zelazny -- Lord of Light
- The entire board was by now comprised of professional educators.Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin -- Three Cups of Tea
comprised = made up
comprised = made up of