The more we multiply and complicate appliances, the more certain are we to drive it away.
Secondary reactions, no doubt, often come to complicate the question, but these are chemical reactions belonging to the general order of things, and have nothing to do with the electric action working on the solution.
Tamman has been led to certain very important observations, and has met with fresh allotropic modifications in nearly all substances, which singularly complicate the question.
All this tends to give to city life a superficial and adventitious character; it tends to complicate social relationships and to produce new and divergent individual types.
The first effect of modern conditions of life has been to increase and vastly complicate the economic interdependence of strange and distant peoples, i.
Number-showing leads in high cards, so advantageous in Whist, are absolutely unimportant in Auction, and only complicate the situation.
The physical properties of the wood which complicate the drying operation and render it distinct from that of merely evaporating free water from some substance like a piece of cloth must be studied experimentally.
He could not complicate his home life, because it might affect his relations with his employers.
Then, the assumption that “pulses of sound” proceed equally in all directions from the initial point, is simply false; and theories based upon it can only complicate the problems to be solved.
Your maid, instead of mending matters, willcomplicate them still more.
So must the baffling twist of a man's brain complicate the destiny of a kingdom.
I did not wish to complicate the trial by imposing a minimum velocity, the check of a special committee, or any limitation of time of trial during the day.
Though it may complicate the statement, they look like cherries.
The next class of writers will complicate the ethnology by speaking of the Picts.
True, they have increased the number of remedies, aye, a hundredfold, but the only result has been to complicate the system, without improving it.
There are, however, certain factors which, working in an opposite way, qualify and complicate these effects.
Don't let us complicate Antonin's difficulties," said Frederic Marest, winking at his substitute.
The absence of our friend will seriously complicate the matter.
It indicates that her business is of the first importance to Germany; the letter may simply be incidental to that business, in that its delivery to the French Ambassador will embarrass or complicate that business.
My going with you would only complicate matters for you.
To produce the 1914 Enfield without change in America and the older-type Enfield in England would complicate the British rifle-ammunition manufacture, since these rifles used cartridges of different sizes and types.
If you should fail, wouldn't that complicate matters?
When one came to think it over, the Hostels did complicate the problem.
If once other thingscomplicate the Vote,--the Vote is lost.
Faith quickly, her look rather brightening than otherwise, though the play of her lips took a complicate character.
Besides them were needed experienced men, skillful, decided, previously trained to act with order and harmony, the only means of preventing the accidents, which complicate the wounds and make them mortal.
Guizot, and I told him that recent events and all that discussion has brought forth will considerably complicate the present situation for a long time.
Conspiracies and risings at Constantinople continually complicate all these questions for the worse.
Knowing words to be but idle breath, I would not complicate matters by speech, but stood silent, regarding Mrs Oldcastle.
The settlement of vexing racial problems cannot be permitted to complicate the tremendous task of the War Department and thereby jeopardize discipline and morale.
Such use, Paul claimed, would expend travel funds already drastically curtailed and further complicate a serious housing situation.
Grouping lower scoring black units with white units, many of the Army staff believed, would lower the efficiency of the whole and complicate the Army's relations with the civilian community.
If carried out, such an agreement would complicate an orderly and controlled integration, and Collins's desire for change was clearly tempered by his concern for order and control.
Marriages did not interfere with love affairs, but helped to complicate the plot.
Then Hassim elbows his way back to the scene of trouble and helps to complicate matters.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "complicate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
