Sample Sentences for
comprised
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    Most of Illea is comprised of these lower castes, and we have overlooked these people far too long.  (source)
    comprised = consists of (is made up of)
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    Nadia's flat comprised a studio room with an alcove kitchenette and a bathroom so small that showering without drenching the commode was impossible.  (source)
    comprised = consisted of (was made up of)
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    The Slabs functions as the seasonal capital of a teeming itinerant society, a tolerant, rubber-tired culture comprising the retired, the exiled, the destitute, the perpetually unemployed.  (source)
    comprising = consisting of (made up of)
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    They knew that the panel was comprised of some impressive judges.  (source)
    comprised = composed (made up)
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    Each colony is a family unit, comprising a single, egg-laying female or queen and her many sterile daughters called workers.  (source)
    comprising = consisting of (made up of)
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    Name the component structures that comprise the hand.†  (source)
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    But the grotto itself comprises its own slick universe, and inside this universe spin countless galaxies: here, in the upturned half of a single mussel shell, lives a barnacle and a tiny spindle shell occupied by a still smaller hermit crab.  (source)
    comprises = includes
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    The entirety of the new city thus far comprised three buildings.  (source)
    comprised = consists of (was made up of)
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    My days are inconsequential, comprising simple moments and even simpler pleasures.  (source)
    comprising = consisting of (made up of)
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    Having arrived at Lansing after an eight-hour, four-hundred-mile car ride from Garden City, the newcomers had been stripped, showered, given close haircuts, and supplied with coarse denim uniforms and soft slippers (in most American prisons such slippers are a condemned man's customary footwear); then armed escorts marched them through a wet twilight to the coffin-shaped edifice, hustled them up the spiral stairs and into two of the twelve side-by-side cells that comprise Lansing's Death Row.†  (source)
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    In Newspeak it is called doublethink, though doublethink comprises much else as well.  (source)
    comprises = includes
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    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.  (source)
    comprised = made up of
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    A thin circlet comprising dangling gold and jewels crowned her head.†  (source)
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