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Example sentences for "develop"

Lexicographically close words:
devastation; devastations; deve; devel; develes; developable; develope; developed; developement; developements
  1. Think of the advantages to a community of being able to develop the talent displayed here--what it would mean to you people yourselves to be able to get together, especially in the winter, and sing.

  2. Often a man who can utilize another's idea can develop it to greater profit than the one who first created it.

  3. Such use is more likely to develop in the minds of the younger children a love for history.

  4. There was abundant opportunity to improve the steamboat and develop its use.

  5. As a child I received from my country precious tokens of interest, and the means of going abroad to develop my artistic vocation.

  6. There are many small bodies of land capable of supporting a group of people and yet so secluded as to allow them to develop their own individuality and become independent.

  7. Occupation was, however, provided so that he might exercise and develop each part of his nature.

  8. But finally in the valley of Rephaim he was enabled to strike such a crushing blow to the Philistines as to compel a lasting peace and leave him free to develop his kingdom.

  9. In the divine providence our misfortunes of life often develop our nobler impulses of heart.

  10. One of the chief points of the author was to advise all business men to develop clear visual images.

  11. Loyalty to the individuals constituting the firm may ultimately develop into house loyalty.

  12. Others have devised forms of partnership which give numerous employees shares in the business and so help to develop this attitude.

  13. They develop no stable interests and in all their tasks are superficial.

  14. Fortunately for the young lion this is the sort of activity best adapted to develop his strength of muscle and his cunning in capturing prey.

  15. Many managers and more foremen are unable to develop this feeling in their subordinates because they assume all the responsibility and allow those under them no share of it.

  16. Few men of any intelligence can develop the same degree of interest in each of several tasks.

  17. When the mind is concentrated upon an

    object, this object must develop and prove interesting, otherwise there will be required every few seconds the same tug of the will.


  18. No man can develop into an expert without great exertion of the will.

  19. If I am anxious or need to develop the power of concentration upon what people say, either in conversation or in public discourse, I may be helped by persistently and continuously forcing myself to attend.

  20. Attempts to develop beneficial occupation habits in executives have not yet been exhaustively and scientifically carried out.

  21. Ordinarily, a considerable bonus is awarded to all workmen who develop the desired habits and perform the task exactly as prescribed by the expert.

  22. But whenever the harness was put on her back she seemed to develop sleeping sickness or some other obscure ailment, so we gave up using her except for farm work.

  23. I wonder if it wouldn't be a good idea to feed the ducks in a convenient mud-puddle so that they can develop themselves properly.

  24. I incline to the belief the souls of men infuse themselves into the trunks of animals, for it does not seem possible that by any process of evolution animals should develop such human meanness.

  25. Limp off as fast as I can, to develop them.

  26. Mairaut on the one side, and Madame Dupont on the other, develop amiable impulses, and protest, at a given moment, against the infamies committed and countenanced by their respective spouses.

  27. Mr. Shaw may say that in order to develop the character of Judith as he had conceived it, he was forced to make her misunderstand her husband's motives.

  28. One may learn how to tell a story in good dramatic form: how to develop and marshal it in such a way as best to seize and retain the interest of a theatrical audience.

  29. England, whilst seeking conquests, has, on the other hand, always allowed the inhabitants of conquered territories to develop along their own lines and has made use of legislation largely to protect them from each other.

  30. Gradually, these productions will develop new ideas, new resources, and features of originality, in addition to the improvements which modern civilisation and modern appliances necessarily suggest.

  31. In the main what she really wanted was to develop herself by the application of her talent for commerce and industry.

  32. Possibly if, just after the war of 1870, we had endeavored to enter on a new tradition, and to develop a great army, we might have succeeded in doing so.

  33. In the third place, owing to our dependence on freedom of sea-communications for food and raw materials, we could not sit still if Germany elected to develop her fleet to such an extent as to imperil our naval protection.

  34. What had been done was to take the old-fashioned British Army and to rid it of superfluous fat, to develop muscle in place of mere flesh, and to put the whole force into proper training.

  35. It may be difficult for them to organize themselves for war, but it will be less difficult for them to develop a common spirit which may penetrate all over the world.

  36. The German Emperor had told me that, altho he was trying to develop good relations with France, he was finding it difficult.

  37. It is much to be desired that local Archæological Societies should take up and develop the history of particular houses.

  38. The Statute of 1388 helped to develop local administration of charity by ordaining that beggars unable to work must either remain in the town where they found themselves or return to their birthplace and abide there for life.

  39. His practice serves to keep alive the language and to develop its resources.

  40. The purpose of life is more life, individual in the measure that it lies within a man's power to develop it, but cosmic in its sources and its influence.

  41. The form cannot be laid on from the outside; it is born and must develop in response to vital need.

  42. Once started on the path, then, in the mysteries of art as in the whole complex infinite business of living, he becomes his own tutor by observation and experience; and he may develop into a fuller knowledge in obedience to the law of growth.

  43. The parting charge of the old pastor Robinson to the little band of pilgrims was of necessity a seed of changes of opinion as time should develop fit causes of change.

  44. No crop has served to develop the natural poverty of the soil so much as coffee; and there is no doubt that, were it possible to procure manure in sufficient quantity, the holes should be well filled at the time of planting.

  45. It clearly rests upon the government to develop the resources of the country, to prove the value of the soil, which is delivered to the purchaser at so much per acre, good or bad.

  46. Cancer has been shown to be an identical process in all vertebrates (including fishes), and to develop at a time which conforms in a striking manner to the limits imposed by the long or short compass of life in different animals.

  47. By the light of this divine fact the Incarnation is seen to develop itself naturally and necessarily as an atonement; the penal element in the sufferings of Christ is minimized.

  48. If this analysis of the commencement and close of the book is correct, it is certain that the poem is in a sense dramatic, that is, that it uses dialogue and monologue to develop a story.

  49. But as time goes on, the works gradually lose the character of commentaries on the text, and develop into expositions of the law as a whole.

  50. Men are MADE, but only the fittest survive; the rest are either destroyed or permitted to develop into lower species.

  51. The higher classes in a society like this could not but develop speculative systems, and it is alleged that shortly before the reign of Montezuma attempts had been made to introduce a pure monotheistic religion.

  52. He sees and admits also that these exceptional men will not continuously exert or even develop their talents unless society can supply them with some adequate motive or stimulus.

  53. Applying this to the spiritual world, we may say that though we cannot know how spiritual life begins it must develop after it begins.

  54. They'll cut the tunnel, develop and settle the country, and thus make the land we shall still hold worth a good deal more than the whole of it is worth today, counting cattle and everything else in.

  55. When the thing has been developed as they propose to develop it, every acre in this valley will be worth ten times what it is now.

  56. You're surely not going to develop into a new woman, Betsey," said John Coulson with alarm.

  57. The connection between Elizabeth's heart and brain had been made, and that done she even began to develop a mathematical head.

  58. I mentioned before the need to keep the lines of genre and form open, to keep them free from private property rights in order to allow musicians to develop the form by using them as common property, the "highways" of musical progress.

  59. In medical education there is certainly less laxity than in the United States; all the efforts of medical men being laudably directed to lengthen the course and develop the professional knowledge of the students.

  60. Strachan was not only a sound scholar but an astute man of the world, admirably fitted to develop the talents of his pupils and prepare them for the active duties of life in those young days of Canada.

  61. In all the measures calculated to develop the industrial resources and stimulate the intellectual life of the Dominion, the names of French Canadians appear along with those of British origin.

  62. He is not allowed sufficient of that free volition which would enable him to develop the best qualities of his pupils, and to elevate their general tone.

  63. My heroine, for example, had a prototype in real life, who served for the first sketch, but as I wrote I made her character develop until she was a wholly different woman from her model.

  64. He had lived long in Morocco, had the highest opinion of its enormous natural wealth, and was longing for the day when England, or some other European Power, would seize and develop it.

  65. The business of the Canal will come from new interests which it will develop and from other routes which cannot compete with it in rates.

  66. Thus, it is not only an inter-oceanic canal but a line of inland navigation which will so develop the territory on each side that in a few yew years its commerce will pay the cost of maintenance.

  67. Fortunately, a few years before, he had learned the alphabet while amusing himself with an amateur wireless outfit, and it now required comparatively little time for him to develop a fair degree of proficiency as a key-listener.

  68. The deep significance of the event did not develop at once, but the novelty of the thing kept the attention of interest upon it until the real meaning was uncovered.


  69. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "develop" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accrue; accumulate; advance; affect; age; aggrandize; ameliorate; amend; ample; amplify; appreciate; apprentice; attend; augment; balloon; bare; bear; beautify; befall; beget; betide; betoken; bloat; bloom; blossom; blueprint; boom; brandish; break; breathe; breed; brew; bring; broaden; build; bulk; coin; come; complete; conceive; concoct; condition; contract; contrive; create; crescendo; crown; culminate; cultivate; dangle; dawn; demonstrate; derive; descant; design; detail; develop; devise; dilate; discipline; disclose; discourse; discover; display; distend; divulge; dramatize; drill; educate; elaborate; embellish; embody; emerge; enact; end; engender; engineer; enlarge; ensue; enunciate; evidence; evince; evolve; excogitate; exercise; exhibit; expand; expatiate; explicate; expose; express; extend; extract; fabricate; fare; finish; fit; flaunt; fledge; flourish; flower; follow; form; formulate; found; frame; gain; gather; generate; germinate; graduate; groom; grow; hap; happen; hatch; highlight; hike; huff; hypertrophy; illuminate; impart; improve; improvise; incarnate; increase; indicate; inflate; intensify; invent; issue; light; line; magnify; manifest; materialize; mature; mean; meliorate; mellow; mend; mint; mount; multiply; mushroom; nurse; nurture; occur; open; organize; originate; outgrow; overgrow; parade; particularize; pass; perfect; perform; pioneer; plan; practice; prepare; present; print; process; procreate; produce; progress; promote; propagate; prosper; prove; puff; pump; raise; rarefy; ready; rear; refine; rehearse; represent; reproduce; result; reveal; ripe; ripen; rise; root; season; shape; shoot; show; sketch; snowball; spawn; spotlight; spread; sprout; start; stem; strengthen; stretch; swell; temper; terminate; thrive; token; toughen; tower; train; transpire; turn; uncover; unfold; unfurl; unmask; unpack; unroll; unsheathe; unveil; unwrap; vegetate; wave; wax; widen


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    developed countries; developed from; developed teeth; developing countries