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Example sentences for "constitute"

Lexicographically close words:
constituencies; constituency; constituent; constituents; constituta; constituted; constitutes; constituting; constitutio; constitution
  1. The sons or nephews of Liverpool merchants having branch firms in the city, and wealthy Protestant tradesmen, generally English churchmen, constitute a second division scarcely less isolated.

  2. Its pretty plumage and fine voice do not constitute its only attractions.

  3. It is true that he jumps hastily upon the insects which constitute his food; but he does not seize them so eagerly as other birds; on the contrary, he stops short, and seems to deliberate whether it is prudent to eat them or not.

  4. That is true, Mr. Constantine: you are an absolute stranger, if the want of a formal introduction and an ignorance of your family constitute that title.

  5. Though I have been disobedient, I have repented my fault, and it has introduced me to the knowledge of a people whose friendship will henceforward constitute the greatest pleasure of my days.

  6. In a nag animal they constitute a positive unsoundness, and lameness in this case is more often than not an accompanying symptom.

  7. These vessels, by their final fusion at the lower end of the first phalanx, constitute the digital vein.

  8. These constitute the 'glomes' of the frog.

  9. But does not the present case fairly constitute an exception?

  10. He pointed out to him the utter insufficiency of everything on earth to constitute happiness, when unconnected with a grand object and a future state of being.

  11. They cost from six shillings to twenty-four shillings per dozen, and constitute an independent subsidiary manufacture.

  12. This holds that all local churches are subject to the supreme authority of the bishop of Rome, as the successor of Peter and the infallible vicegerent of Christ, and, as thus united, constitute the one and only church of Christ on earth.

  13. Part is bound to part, and all together constitute one vitalized whole.

  14. The nature of any organization may be determined by asking, first: who constitute its members?

  15. Those believers who chance to gather at a particular place, or to live at a particular time, constitute the church of that place or time.

  16. But, however agonizing the sorrow, it will not constitute true repentance, unless it leads to, or is accompanied by: C.

  17. The kind and amount of evidence which would have justified the reception of a candidate in times of persecution may not now constitute a sufficient proof of change of heart.

  18. Three persons may constitute a church, and may administer the ordinances.

  19. They properly constitute parts of one whole, and are not to be unnecessarily separated.

  20. There is no evidence that any human authority, outside of the converts there, was invoked to constitute or to organize the church.

  21. Valid baptism, they consider, is essential to constitute visible church membership.

  22. Councils have no authority to constitute churches.

  23. Neither politics nor religious opinion should of course enter into the choice of library trustees, except so far as it is unwise to constitute a board exclusively from one party or one denomination.

  24. The church, the school and the library are institutions which naturally constitute a triple alliance.

  25. They constitute the warp and woof out of which the university weaves the higher education.

  26. We recall our friends in the American Library Association, who constitute with some marked exceptions, who prefer to work alone, the high-water mark of the fraternity.

  27. Not only is the foundation there, but the building already stands upon it--we ourselves constitute that building.

  28. He always found but one answer: if a large number of people were afflicted with the sorrow that afflicted him, that number would constitute the people, he said to himself.

  29. Now, however, they are the ruling power in the soul of modern humanity, for they constitute the most covetous portion thereof.

  30. We have now prepared the several facts that constitute the materials of our argument.

  31. The officers constitute the executive board, who arrange the program for each meeting, selecting leaders.

  32. This is, perhaps, the most significant fact to be derived from our data: that the children who test at and above 180 IQ constitute the "top" among college graduates.

  33. Her excellent progress and adaptation here constitute a clear demonstration of the advantages of early identification and intelligent educational placement.

  34. Such children as are here presented constitute difficult educational problems from their entrance in school.

  35. These are all the pieces which constitute the hind-quarter; and it will be seen that they are valuable both for roasting and boiling, not containing a single coarse piece.

  36. I have now mentioned all the relics of antiquity that have been found in stated localities within the central Mexican region, which was to constitute the geographical basis of this chapter.

  37. Unstratified mounds, never within enclosures and generally at some little distance from them, containing human remains in their centres and undoubtedly erected as places of sepulture, constitute the second class, and are called burial mounds.

  38. Occupation of the Country by the Spaniards, and who still constitute the great Bulk of the Population.

  39. Whatever their use, they certainly constitute a clearly defined class distinct from all others, and the name altar-mounds is as appropriate as any other.

  40. Closing and locking his bedroom door, Soames threw out upon the bed the entire contents of his trunk; selected those things which he considered indispensable, and those which might constitute clues.

  41. Drumlins are abundant in the vicinity of Boston, and constitute nearly all the islands in Boston Harbour.

  42. Not only do they lie upon the surface, but, in digging into the lines of hills which constitute the backbone of Long Island, these transported boulders are found often to make up a large part of the accumulation.

  43. As long as a man is healthy, free from venereal disease, his previous sexual experiences do not constitute a barrier to his marriage.

  44. The general increase in cleanliness in all strata of society and the universal use of antiseptics after suspicious sexual relations will constitute the chief factors in this diminution of venereal disease.

  45. But a really excessive libido on the part of either husband or wife should constitute a valid ground for divorce.

  46. Besides its milk secreting function, the breasts constitute a strong erogenous zone; they are a point of strong attraction for the male sex, many men being more attracted by well-developed breasts than by a pretty face.

  47. The conditions which these terms designate do not constitute definite disease-entities, and many different things are understood by different people when these terms are mentioned.

  48. Even if the man was unfortunate enough to have contracted gonorrhea, that fact should constitute no bar to marriage, provided he is completely cured of it.

  49. As long as the matrimonial candidate himself is not a criminal, the ancestral criminality should constitute no bar to the marriage.

  50. Numerous bloodvessels begin to grow and that part of the lining membrane with its numerous bloodvessels constitute the placenta, or as it is commonly called afterbirth, because it comes out after the birth of the child.

  51. How many such cases there are altogether in the period of a year nobody can say, but that they constitute a considerable percentage of the total venereal morbidity every investigating sexologist will testify.

  52. For instance, the beard and mustache are a distinct male characteristic and constitute one of the secondary male sex characters.

  53. Excessive Libido in Men= We have seen that sexual impotence is a dysgenic factor and if complete and incurable should constitute a barrier to marriage.

  54. So sexual attraction is the foundation of all love, but it does not constitute love.

  55. All which I have remembered to this purpose, because I would erect and constitute one general inquiry (which seems to me deficient) touching the wisdom of tradition.

  56. Or, in other words, though it be not law, does it constitute a rule as operative as if it was a law?

  57. At last, then, here is a corner of the curtain raised; here we see the associated organs which constitute an animal, living for once a life positively and in all respects their own.

  58. They constitute the coloring matter of the globules, and you will never guess its chief element.

  59. Let it suffice you, for to-day, to have gained some idea of the manner in which the materials which constitute our bodies are manufactured within us.

  60. Indeed, you must prepare yourself beforehand, my dear child, to meet with many other mysteries besides this, if we pursue to the end our study of this flesh and bone which constitute the body of man.

  61. Thus, in a body that moves, order is the chain of action, the series of motion, proper to constitute it what it is, and to maintain it in its actual state.

  62. This is the true notion of a property, which may be defined, an aptitude to constitute a being, such as it is actually found, such as it is with respect to the whole of which it makes a part.

  63. But he had to pay the penalty of all who believe in their own ideas, in that their ideas come between them and the persons that approach them, and constitute a mental barrier which can only be broken down by sympathy.

  64. The panic which the fall of a chief always produces among savages prevented, for the moment, all organized resistance on the part of Guaybána's followers, but they did not constitute the whole population of the island.

  65. But wit of itself does not constitute great poetry.

  66. The incidents of the last six books which constitute the second part of the AEneid may be briefly told.


  67. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "constitute" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    assemble; authorize; build; combine; compose; constitute; construct; create; decree; effect; effectuate; embody; enact; establish; fabricate; filibuster; form; formulate; found; inaugurate; incorporate; install; join; kill; legalize; legislate; lobby; make; materialize; merge; mix; ordain; organize; pass; pigeonhole; pocket; prescribe; railroad; realize; regulate; sanction; start; structure; synthesize; table; validate; veto