Sample Sentences for

evolve

grouped by contextual meaning

(editor-reviewed)

Fans have enjoyed watching the characters evolve for over a decade now.

Military tactics evolved in response to machine guns and wire entanglements.

By loosely coupling the components, each is more free to evolve at its own pace.

Indeed, they were an endless Project that slowly evolved into a Unit, in which miles of construction paper and wax crayon were expended by the State of Alabama in its well-meaning but fruitless efforts to teach me Group Dynamics.  (source) Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960

They locked themselves in their laboratories, and tried to evolve, as gold had.  (source) Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist, 1988

A taboo was evolving round that word too.  (source) William Golding, Lord of the Flies, 1954

How could our parents have ever imagined that someday we would end up in a country where monosyllabic names reign supreme, a land where "William" is shortened to "Bill," where "Susan" becomes "Sue," and "Richard" somehow evolves into "Dick"?†  (source) Firoozeh Dumas, Funny in Farsi, 2003

Gramps said that those myths evolved because people needed a way to explain where fire came from and why there was evil in the world.  (source) Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons, 1994

The woods begin to evolve, and the pines are intermixed with a variety of trees, some I recognize, some completely foreign to me.  (source) Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, 2008

I devised a bizarre and ever evolving rubric by which I measured his love for me, and when he failed to meet it, I became paranoid.  (source) Tara Westover, Educated, 2018

With each element evolves a sense-function capable of perceiving it: hearing, touch, sight, taste, and smell respectively.†  (source) Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces, 1949

If only people were smarter, evolved enough to treat everyone the same even if they looked different.  (source) Scott Westerfeld, Uglies, 2005

Well, we know from other patients that most tumors eventually evolve a way to grow in spite of Phalanxifor, but if that were the case, we'd see tumor growth on the scans, which we don't see.  (source) John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012

Different mutations had occurred in the isolated populations that evolved in different cave systems.

Traits that evolved through sexual selection are particularly prominent among males of several animal species.

Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes.  (source) Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game, 1977

Once we evolved into humans, things got pretty interesting.  (source) Ernest Cline, Ready Player One, 2011

I wonder why we didn't evolve with eyes in the back of our heads?  (source) Susan Ee, Angelfall, 2012

Like, they're evolving faster?  (source) John Green, Turtles All the Way Down, 2017

DNA evolves over time, like everything else in an organism-hands or feet or any other physical attribute.  (source) Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park, 1993

Many other large species have associated creatures that have evolved to eat their excrement.  (source) Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park, 1993

As the Count listened, the essence of the Englishman's idea seemed perfectly intuitive— that over tens of thousands of years a species would slowly evolve in order to maximize its chances of survival.  (source) Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, 2016

"The stegosaurs are a mid-Jurassic animal, evolving about a hundred and seventy million years ago," the recording said.  (source) Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park, 1993

And single-celled life emerged in the oceans, and then over billions of years, life got more abundant and complex, until two hundred fifty thousand or so years ago, humans evolved, and we started using more advanced tools, and then eventually built spaceships and everything.  (source) John Green, Turtles All the Way Down, 2017

Yet long before Columbus arrived, that wild grass had managed to evolve into maize and spread across North America.  (source) Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma, 2009

Such neck flexion was so common in fossils that some scientists had formulated a theory to explain it, suggesting that the dinosaurs had become extinct because they had been poisoned by the evolving alkaloids in plants.  (source) Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park, 1993