Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "dependent"

Lexicographically close words:
dependants; depended; dependence; dependencies; dependency; dependents; dependeth; depending; depends; depenses
  1. His salary or income must never become a fixed or certain sum but must always be dependent on the annual favor and grants of a legislature controlled by the people.

  2. One of the causes of the Revolution in 1776 was the attempt of the mother country to make the governors and other colonial officials dependent for their salaries on the Government in England instead of on the legislatures in the colonies.

  3. As private land titles and boundaries were in some places dependent on the location of the division line, there resulted much controversy and litigation which lasted down into our own time.

  4. Sometimes it happens that men steer along a lee shore, dependent for direction on Polaris, that light-house in the sky.

  5. Such successive and total darkenings would greatly derange all affairs dependent on light.

  6. But how entirely, even in this case, the feeling is dependent on custom, appears by ample experience.

  7. But there are extremely few, dependent only on mental faculties, in which they have not attained the rank next to the highest.

  8. When I wish it--when I explain that I make everything else dependent on it .

  9. The customs officers of the various ports could, of course, have provided any information desired relative to the shipping, and were not dependent on the flags for their knowledge of the ships' nationalities.

  10. It is absolutely dependent on Serbia for its energy needs.

  11. The added benefits of IT are highly sensitive to and dependent upon historical, psychosocial and economic parameters outside the perimeter of the technology itself.

  12. But it was a personality-dependent achievement.

  13. These economies are highly dependent on the general health of international trade.

  14. Though prosperous for a time, these economies are dependent on and subject to the vicissitudes of business cycles.

  15. Russia, for instance, is heavily dependent on proceeds from the sale of its energy products.

  16. In economic terms, this tiny republic was becoming less and less dependent on its partner in the Yugoslav federation.

  17. Because it is better to have your dependent as mediator - then a real independent.

  18. Derivative or Satellite economies - These are economies, which are absolutely dependent upon or very closely correlated with other economies.

  19. Macedonia cannot survive on its own, it is too dependent on Serbia, it is too tiny.

  20. The town is entirely dependent on the great Benedictine abbey that rises slightly above it to the east.

  21. The existence of initial stress has been correlated above with the existence of body forces such as the force of gravity, but it is not necessarily dependent upon such forces.

  22. When injected subcutaneously it is inert, as its action is entirely dependent upon its admixture with the bile.

  23. The thermal effects of electric currents in conductors are dependent upon the production of a state of equilibrium between the heat produced electrically in the wire and the causes operative in removing it.

  24. The trade between the colonies was also taxed for the benefit of the imperial treasury, and in various other ways the colonies were made dependent on the mother country.

  25. At that time the Philadelphians were dependent chiefly upon the Frankford Mills for their flour.

  26. He has made our judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices and the amount and payment of their salaries.

  27. He has made judges dependent on his will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

  28. The commissioners reported strongly against the establishment of an elected council, and in favour of a modified system of responsible government, not dependent on the vote of the house.

  29. Auxiliary derived from the idea of future destination, dependent upon circumstances external to the agent--shall.

  30. Auxiliary derived from the idea of power, dependent upon circumstances internal to the agent--can.

  31. Auxiliary derived from the idea of future destination, dependent upon the volition of the agent--will.

  32. Auxiliary derived from the idea of power, dependent upon circumstances external to the agent--may.

  33. One was feeble, delicate, and unequal to active exertion; the other was old and poor, being wholly dependent upon a small salary for officiating as sexton of a neighbouring church.

  34. Father," said Emily, "I thought the object in giving Gertrude a good education was to make her independent of all the world, and not simply dependent upon us.

  35. Left at three years of age dependent upon the charity of a world in which she was friendless and alone, Gertrude had, during her residence at Nan Grant's, found little of that charity.

  36. The prospect was far better than he could hope for by remaining at home; the salary was sufficient to defray all his own expenses, and provide for the wants of those who were now becoming more dependent upon him.

  37. My step-mother had been poor in her widowhood, and her child having inherited nothing which he could call his own, was wholly dependent upon my father's bounty.

  38. Our very thoughts are indirectly dependent on the sunbeams; for the brain, which is the organ of thought, requires food to maintain its activity, like the muscles and all the other machinery of the body.

  39. There were also several preceptories in Scotland and Ireland, which were dependent on the Temple at London.

  40. The preceptories in these kingdoms were very numerous, and the property dependent upon them was of great value.

  41. I believe,' said Albert one day to my mother, 'that the poor young man feels keenly his dependent situation.

  42. General, I will never be dependent on any one but you.

  43. He wished that Portugal should no longer favour England in her commercial relations, but that, like Spain, she should become dependent on him.

  44. For any one who has had to manage an office it is pleasant to find that even Napoleon was much dependent on a good secretary.

  45. Again it was necessary, under the conditions and owing to the fact that the hospital was dependent upon patients for its existence, that men be selected who were competent to have charge of certain work.

  46. Nearly all the windows, throughout the building, were double sash and glass and could be opened for sufficient air, dependent upon the outside temperature.

  47. Obozerskaya was to be the depot and sleigh transportation point of most consequence next to Seletskoe, which itself in winter was greatly dependent on Obozerskaya.

  48. And no less dependent on this important crop were the denizens of the fold, of the sty, and of the chicken-yard.

  49. The boatmen, back-swimmers and giants all have oars, yet are not entirely dependent on them.

  50. Sam had always been a silent child dependent on the rest, but he was one of the little gang and Michael's heart warmed toward his former comrade.

  51. One Walter Lud, or Gualterus Ludovicus, as they liked to Latinize his name, a dependent and secretary of Duke Rene, was now a man not much under sixty, and he had been the grouper and manager of this body of scholars.

  52. The incident is surrounded with the confusion that belongs to everything dependent on Columbus's own statements, or on what is put forth as such.

  53. The island of Cuba, for instance, early found place in the charts seven and eight degrees too far north, with dependent islands in equally wrong positions.

  54. A great advance was possible now, for a new principle had been devised, and an estimate of the progress of a ship was no longer dependent on visual observation.

  55. Ralegh had his eye upon a more southern coast than Gilbert had aimed for,--upon one better fitted to develop self-dependent colonization.

  56. Only the prerogatives of mind and heart command respect, they only are genuine, for they are not dependent on the whim or favour of others, but are based on character or honest labour.

  57. One-half of the earnings of the judgment debtor for personal services rendered within thirty days preceding the levy if debtor is married or is head of a family residing in Utah and dependent upon such earnings for support.

  58. State and is dependent in whole or in part, upon such earnings, and all wages are exempt when they do not exceed five dollars per week.

  59. The applause and compliments of the multitude are no doubt sweet, but it only lulls to rest the voice of duty, and fails to provide sustenance for those dependent upon us.

  60. He knows not how to read or write, and is consequently dependent upon a clerk for the prosecution of his epistolary business and the keeping of his memorandum books.

  61. In England, more dependent than other nations on the extent of its commercial intercourse, it may be said to have operated as a scourge.

  62. Assurances at other ages are effected on equally favourable terms, and thus the assured has an immediate bonus instead of a chance dependent upon longevity and the profits of an office.


  63. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dependent" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accidental; adherent; amenable; appendage; attendant; buff; charge; childlike; conditional; conditioned; confiding; contingent; courtier; creature; credulous; dangling; dependent; disciple; encumbrance; falling; fan; feudal; flowing; flunky; follower; following; guileless; hanging; heeler; helpless; henchman; hooked; hung; inferior; innocent; lackey; liege; man; minion; minor; naive; open; parasite; partisan; pendent; pending; pendulous; pensioner; peon; predicated; proportional; provisional; public; pursuer; retainer; satellite; secondary; sectary; serf; servant; servile; shadow; slave; sub; subject; subordinate; subservient; successor; supporter; suspended; swinging; tail; tributary; trusting; trusty; uncounted; undecided; under; underling; undetermined; unfixed; unsettled; unsuspecting; unsuspicious; untold; vassal; votary; ward; weeping; yeoman


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    dependent areas; dependent clause; dependent territory; dependent upon