Sample Sentences for
devise
(editor-reviewed)

devise as in:  devise a plan

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    You must devise a way so that you sleep a little if he is quiet and steady.  (source)
    devise = come up with (invent)
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    He had to devise something that could etch up the patch area so the glue would stick.  (source)
    devise = come up with (invent or create)
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    We'd have to devise other ways to stay warm.  (source)
    devise = think of
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    Probably the one with scientific aptitude was Benjamin, the male who had devised new, important equipment for the Rehabilitation Center.  (source)
    devised = invented
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    I will program your battles now, not the computer; I will devise the strategy of your enemy, and you will learn to be quick and discover what tricks the enemy has for you.  (source)
    devise = come up with (invent or create)
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    It is Judd who is credited with devising the form, as opposed to the name, of the Particicution ceremony, arguing that it was not only a particularly horrifying and effective way of ridding yourself of subversive elements but that it would also act as a steam valve for the female elements in Gilead.  (source)
    devising = thinking of
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    In the biblical story, King Solomon devises a way to find out what is in each woman's heart.†  (source)
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    But the liberal soul deviseth liberal things, and by liberal things shall he stand.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-th" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She deviseth" in older English, today we say "She devises."
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    Jem, educated on a half-Decimal half-Duncecap basis, seemed to function effectively alone or in a group, but Jem was a poor example: no tutorial system devised by man could have stopped him from getting at books.  (source)
    devised = invented
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    His absence from the disaster had made him an outsider, and he would never regain what he had lost here—which meant it was time to devise a new plan of action.  (source)
    devise = come up with (invent or create)
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    And so, as Jaimito snored away, Dede began devising a little exercise to distract her mind and fortify her spirit.  (source)
    devising = thinking of
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    Maraa Isabel devises a plan to stay.†  (source)
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    The instruments of a churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.†  (source)
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