Sample Sentences for
dispose
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dispose as in:  dispose of the waste

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How will they dispose of the waste?
dispose = throw away (get rid of)
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    What is the best way to responsibly dispose of old electronic equipment.
    dispose = throw away
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    But she finally became suspicious and tried to dispose of it.  (source)
    dispose = get rid
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    "So we wanted to have the compys around to clean up." "You mean to dispose of carcasses?"  (source)
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    The implications that I could so readily dispose of Peeta, that I'm in love with Gale, that the whole thing has been an act.  (source)
    dispose = throw away
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    He claimed Westing stole his idea of the disposable paper diaper.  (source)
    disposable = designed to be used once and thrown away
    standard suffix: The suffix "-able" in disposable means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable. Note that when "-able" is placed at the end of a word that ends in "E", the "E" is often dropped as in lovable and believable.
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    and although we must and should pray for Divine Grace, we should not be so puffed up with vanity as to believe that our prayers might have any effect, because man proposes but God disposes, and it was not up to our puny sinful and mortal souls to determine the course of events.†  (source)
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    the Lord disposeth all things.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-th" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She disposeth" in older English, today we say "She disposes."
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    We were told how to search each flat for anything of value, and how to sort what was left into piles on the floor for removal and disposal—clothes should be sorted in one way, household items in another.  (source)
    disposal = to throw away
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    The contents would be disposed of by Hans as prudently as possible.  (source)
    disposed = thrown away
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    He picks up his dinner, goes to the sink with it, and flushes it down the disposer.†  (source)
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    Willie also worked as a janitor—he likes to say he was a maintenance supervisor—for a real estate agency, and he went around fixing broken windows, trash disposals, and things like that at the company's rental properties.†  (source)
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    Stuffed into a closet in her private dressing room—a sanctum never penetrated by Blackstock—were over seventy empty quart bottles of Southern Comfort, which the poor woman apparently dreaded to risk disposing of, although she plainly had no trouble acquiring the powerful sweet elixir and stowing it away by the case.  (source)
    disposing = throwing away
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    I ain't undisposed.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in undisposed means not and reverses the meaning of disposed. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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dispose as in:  dispose of the matter

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I expect them to dispose of the matter this afternoon.
dispose = settle something so it no longer requires attention
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    The issue will be disposed of by the judge.
    disposed = settled so it no longer requires attention
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    Surely a drugged Mockingjay will be easier to dispose of in front of a crowd.  (source)
    dispose = settle (something so it no longer requires attention)
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    This is a routine matter that we can certainly dispose of in short shrift.  (source)
    dispose = settle so it no longer requires attention
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    Once the Sixers had obtained the egg and won the contest, Art3mis and Shoto would "be disposed of."  (source)
    disposed = taken care of so they will no longer require attention (killed)
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    The plot is cute and complex, having largely to do with an alleged conspiracy on the part of Brandon Strathaway—Willard's tycoon father—to dispose of old Ezra, whose hideously mutilated corpse is indeed found one morning in the entrails of a mechanical cranberry picker.  (source)
    dispose = settle something so it no longer requires attention
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    The Committee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures required a witness to the execution of a mad hippogriff.  (source)
    Disposal = the act of settling something so it no longer requires attention
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    He had no difficulty in disposing of the fallacy, and he was in no danger of succumbing to it.  (source)
    disposing = settling or resolving (something so it no longer requires attention)
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    The forest disposes of its own victims.  (source)
    disposes = settles (something so it no longer requires attention)
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    "Humph!" With one syllable Matthew disposed of the sacrifice, only a little less sharp than Grandfather's loss,  (source)
    disposed = put an end to discussion
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    they intend to dispose of him  (source)
    dispose = settle something so it no longer requires attention
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    But Tom's extravagance had, previous to that event, been so great as to render a different disposal of the next presentation necessary, and the younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.  (source)
    disposal = settlement of what was to be done
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    Nevin continued: "Next, and the big one, testamentary capacity, or sound and disposing mind."  (source)
    disposing = sound (capable of settling or resolving things)
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    As we walked across the moonlight gravel to the porch he disposed of the situation in a few brisk phrases.  (source)
    disposed = took care (settled)
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dispose as in:  dispose of the assets

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Will you dispose of your California real estate now that you have moved?
dispose = sell or transfer
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    Her will split everything between the children, but left no instructions regarding disposal of her home and art.
    disposal = the transfer of ownership
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    We all knew how Mom had reacted to Papaw's death, but Mamaw's death created new pressures: It was time to wind down the estate, figure out Mamaw's debts, dispose of her property, and disburse what remained.  (source)
    dispose = sell or transfer
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    He made me think of a pirate captain disposing of the booty.  (source)
    disposing = transferring to others
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    She did not fear her father's opposition, but...filling him with fears and regrets in disposing of her was a wretched reflection, and she sat in misery till Mr. Darcy appeared again, when...she was a little relieved by his smile.  (source)
    disposing = transferring to another's care
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    So the legislature makes a law that says she can dispose of her property by deed executed in the presence of a judge.  (source)
    dispose = sell or transfer
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    Take it that I have disposed of my share as I wished, and let it go at that!  (source)
    disposed = transferred or given away
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    Cut off thus unexpectedly, he left no will as to the disposal of his property.  (source)
    disposal = transfer
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    Tons of animal manure are produced with no good way of disposing of it.†  (source)
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    "I don't know how it is," muttered Ralph, walking up and down the room, "but whenever a man dies without any property of his own, he always seems to think he has a right to dispose of other people's."  (source)
    dispose = transfer or give away
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    And now having disposed of my most valuable property I hope all will be satisfied and not blame the dead.  (source)
    disposed = transferred or given away
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    He treated rattlers like gnats, disposing of them with one stroke of whatever tool he had in hand.†  (source)
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    Now, from the moment that you divest the landowner of that interest in the preservation of his estate which he derives from association, from tradition, and from family pride, you may be certain that sooner or later he will dispose of it; for there is a strong pecuniary interest in favor of selling, as floating capital produces higher interest than real property, and is more readily available to gratify the passions of the moment.  (source)
    dispose = sell
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    The rest of his property, which was to be withdrawn from the bank, was disposed of in various bequests, several of them to those cousins in Vermont to whom his father had already been so bountiful.  (source)
    disposed = given away
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dispose as in:  disposed the troops along...

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    You have a tight deadline, but the entire company is at your disposal.
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    She has been allowed to dispose of her time in the most idle and frivolous manner, and to adopt any opinions that came in her way.  (source)
    dispose = make use
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    You'll have all of our company's vast resources at your disposal.  (source)
    disposal = command
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    I hear Four's voice in my head, telling me that the most powerful weapon at my disposal is my elbow.  (source)
    disposal = command
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    They carried spears and disposed themselves to defend the entrance.  (source)
    disposed = positioned
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    "My dear sister," said Mary, "if you can persuade him into anything of the sort, it will be a fresh matter of delight to me to find myself allied to anybody so clever, and I shall only regret that you have not half a dozen daughters to dispose of."  (source)
    dispose = settle in life
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    Collectively, the Party owns everything in Oceania, because it controls everything, and disposes of the products as it thinks fit.  (source)
    disposes = uses
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    Your voice shall be as strong as any man's In the disposing of new dignities.  (source)
    disposing = assigning
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    If such an administration succeeds in condensing at a given moment, on a given point, all the disposable resources of a people, it impairs at least the renewal of those resources.  (source)
    disposable = available for use
    standard suffix: The suffix "-able" in disposable means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable. Note that when "-able" is placed at the end of a word that ends in "E", the "E" is often dropped as in lovable and believable.
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    The only movement at her disposal was the act of turning.  (source)
    disposal = command
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    We visited the wondrous cave and the little cabinets of natural history, where the curiosities are disposed in the same manner as in the collections at Servox and Chamounix.  (source)
    disposed = arranged or positioned
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    ... Come, I'll dispose of thee Among a sisterhood of holy nuns.  (source)
    dispose = place
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    Whichever power controls equatorial Africa, or the countries of the Middle East, or Southern India, or the Indonesian Archipelago, disposes also of the bodies of scores or hundreds of millions of ill-paid and hard-working coolies.  (source)
    disposes = arranges, positions, or uses
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dispose as in:  Is she disposed to help?

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I am not disposed to help someone who has been so rude.
disposed = inclined (with a tendency to; or in the mood to)
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    In that country, you are unlikely to find an official who is disposed to help you unless you offer a bribe.
    disposed = inclined (with a tendency or mood to do something)
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    Under the circumstances, the government was not disposed to release survivors in a hurry.  (source)
    disposed = inclined (having a state of mind that favors doing something)
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    In the hallway William did not seem disposed to hurry.  (source)
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    In fact I may say that Matthew is disposed to keep her.  (source)
    disposed = inclined (having a state of mind that favors doing something)
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    Nevertheless, until the British government caved in to the strong-arm tactics of the Ulster loyalist workers after the Sunningdale Conference in 1974, a well-disposed mind could still hope to make sense of the circumstances, to balance what was promising with what was destructive and do what W.B. Yeats had tried to do half a century before, namely, "to hold in a single thought reality and justice."†  (source)
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    A large and still increasing family, an husband disabled for active service, but not the less equal to company and good liquor, and a very small income to supply their wants, made her eager to regain the friends she had so carelessly sacrificed; and she addressed Lady Bertram in a letter which spoke so much contrition and despondence, such a superfluity of children, and such a want of almost everything else, as could not but dispose them all to a reconciliation.  (source)
    dispose = create a tendency or mood to do something
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    As he seemed undisposed to mention the creature to anyone else, I thought perhaps I should keep quiet as well.  (source)
    undisposed = without a tendency or mood
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in undisposed means not and reverses the meaning of disposed. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    On the contrary, she was as much disposed to complain of it as her husband.  (source)
    disposed = inclined
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    The doctor, well-disposed, gave me many warnings about the dangers of this project insofar as my contact with Negroes was concerned.†  (source)
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    A very few days were enough to effect this; and at the end of those few days, circumstances arose which had a tendency rather to forward his views of pleasing her, inasmuch as they gave her a degree of happiness which must dispose her to be pleased with everybody.  (source)
    dispose = incline (create a tendency for)
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    They were severally examined and appraised by old Joe, who chalked the sums he was disposed to give for each, upon the wall, and added them up into a total when he found there was nothing more to come.  (source)
    disposed = with a desire
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    for you strike my fancy as being well-disposed and upright.†  (source)
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    Perhaps during former years he had suffered from the late-discovered unworthiness of one beloved and so was disposed to set a greater value on tried worth.  (source)
    disposed = inclined (with a tendency to)
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