Sample sentences for COMPRISED

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Definition

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

comprised = made up

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

comprised = made up of

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

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