Sample Sentences for
render
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render as in:  rendered service or a verdict

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We're waiting for the jury to render a verdict.
render = give
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    I received an invoice for $100 for services rendered.
    rendered = provided or supplied
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    I consider that when a dependent does her duty as well as you have done yours, she has a sort of claim upon her employer for any little assistance he can conveniently render her;  (source)
    render = give
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    ...and the great services they rendered to Christianity.  (source)
    rendered = gave
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    It renders a person incapable of falsehood.†  (source)
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    I didn't want to render it up, but they took it.  (source)
    render = give
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    Her companions were the lazier of the Old Sarum boys, the laziest of whom was one Albert Coningham, a slow thinker to whom Jean Louise had rendered invaluable service during six-weeks' tests.  (source)
    rendered = given
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    The beautiful touch of Death, soothing and benumbing a few moments, for reasons, Myself discharging my excrementitious body to be burn'd, or render'd to powder, or buried, My real body doubtless left to me for other spheres, My voided body nothing more to me, returning to the purifications, further offices, eternal uses of the earth.†  (source)
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    For me, it was readily leaving the narrow existence of my family and our ghetto of hide tanners and renderers.†  (source)
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    62:12 Also unto thee, O Lord, belongeth mercy: for thou renderest to every man according to his work.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-est" is dropped, so that where they said "Thou renderest" in older English, today we say "You render."
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    It renders all that's happened impossibly discordant, absurd, nonsensical.†  (source)
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    "I will render my ruling on Monday," Judge Thompson said.  (source)
    render = make (give)
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    As a matter of fact Gandalf, who had often been in the mountains, had once rendered a service to the eagles and healed their lord from an arrow-wound.  (source)
    rendered = given
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    And what I dream'd I will henceforth tell to every person and age, And I stand henceforth bound to what I dream'd, And now I am willing to disregard burial-places and dispense with them, And if the memorials of the dead were put up indifferently everywhere, even in the room where I eat or sleep, I should be satisfied, And if the corpse of any one I love, or if my own corpse, be duly render'd to powder and pour'd in the sea, I shall be satisfied, Or if it be distributed to the winds I shall be satisfied.†  (source)
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render as in:  rendered her unconscious

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Her verbal attack rendered me speechless.
rendered = made
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    The disorder will eventually render her paralyzed.
    render = make
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    The shot rendered her immobile
    rendered = made
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    I wondered if they could become confidantes of some kind, or if training and protocol would render them completely unable to even share a cup of tea with me.  (source)
    render = make
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    The surprise in her voice rushed her, but it also rendered her useless.  (source)
    rendered = made
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    There was a very realistic chance that I was going to render Soraya a biwa, a widow, at the age of thirty-six.  (source)
    render = make
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    It's a tranquillity born of sheer immensity; it calms with its very magnitude, which renders the merely human of no consequence.  (source)
    renders = makes
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    Just as I try to ask him again, he brings his lips to mine, rendering me speechless.  (source)
    rendering = making
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    The project was halted in 1963: some fifty miles of road were eventually built, but no bridges were ever erected over the many rivers it transected, and the route was shortly rendered impassable by thawing permafrost and seasonal floods.  (source)
    rendered = made
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    You may render me the most miserable of men, but you shall never make me base in my own eyes.  (source)
    render = make
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    Your position as secretary to the minister renders your authority great on the subject of political news;  (source)
    renders = makes
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    A strain of melancholy, however, blended with his triumph, rendering his voice, as usual, soft and musical.  (source)
    rendering = making or causing to become
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    "One time I asked her to have a chew and she said no thanks, that—chewing gum cleaved to her palate and rendered her speechless," said Jem carefully.  (source)
    rendered = made
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    He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil.  (source)
    render = make
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render as in:  rendered interpretation

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The pianist rendered the Beethoven sonata beautifully.
rendered = played (portrayed or gave her interpretation of)
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    The face of the child is rendered with much tenderness in this painting.
    rendered = portrayed or created in a particular way
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    Nights when Betsie and I reported to sick call, we left the Bible with Mrs. Wielmaker, a saintly Roman Catholic woman from The Hague who could render the Dutch words in German, French, Latin, or Greek.  (source)
    render = translate (convert the words of one language into another language)
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    I cannot even render faithfully the effect it produced on me.  (source)
    render = interpret
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    Across the strip of cowhide one sees a rendering of a two-lane blacktop,  (source)
    rendering = portrayal or picture
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    Everything inside the OASIS was beautifully rendered in three dimensions.  (source)
    rendered = portrayed; or artistically represented
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    Large paintings hung on the walls, depicting the kings of the past and a few renderings of old American and Canadian leaders.  (source)
    renderings = paintings
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    I'm also invited to take part in several group showings, mostly by women: they've heard about the ink throwing, read the snotty reviews, all of which render me legitimate, although from the east.  (source)
    render = portray or create in a particular way  OR  interpret, translate, or extract from
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    That it was a Utopia, there being no known method from the known to the unknown: an infinity renderable equally finite by the suppositious apposition of one or more bodies equally of the same and of different magnitudes: a mobility of illusory forms immobilised in space, remobilised in air: a past which possibly had ceased to exist as a present before its probable spectators had entered actual present existence.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
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    They talk about how they are both routinely assumed to be Greek, Egyptian, Mexican—even in this misrendering they are joined.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "mis-" in misrendering means wrong and reverses the meaning of rendering. This is the same pattern you see in words like misunderstand, misbehave, and misuse.
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    But after three years of examining Jesus pictures, we did know that Akiane's rendering was not only a departure from typical paintings of Jesus; it was also the only one that had ever stopped Colton in his tracks.  (source)
    rendering = portrayal
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    ...and another pamphlet of German phrases rendered in English phonetics,  (source)
    rendered = translated
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    The architectural renderings he'd seen were magnificent.  (source)
    renderings = paintings or models created in a particular way
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    When I was old enough, I was to be apprenticed to Joe, and until I could assume that dignity I was not to be what Mrs. Joe called "Pompeyed," or (as I render it) pampered.  (source)
    render = translate
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