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Example sentences for "lends itself"

  • Whatever the lack of basis for the tale, it is a fact that the Church in Spain has recognised the dance as an art that, like music, lends itself to religious ritual.

  • Starting as it does in an open position, it lends itself to the embellishment of broad leaps.

  • Effective it must be; coarse it may be; vulgar it should not be; trivial it can hardly be; mere prettiness is beyond its scope; but it lends itself to dignity of design and nobility of treatment.

  • A further charm lies in the way it lends itself to gradation of colour.

  • Nor must we hide from ourselves the fact that even pity, which in its pure form is the very incarnation of love, has a perverted form in which it lends itself to every kind of subterranean cruelty.

  • We are not justified in saying anything at all about it, except that it exists and that it lends itself to the advance of the complex vision.

  • Border work may be very fully carried out with the sticks, and another charming feature of the gift is the way in which it lends itself to the making of snow crystals.

  • By its very lack of individuality, it lends itself to many charming plays and transformations.

  • By its size--and it grows as long as a man's finger--it lends itself to observation better than any other of its tribe.

  • It lends itself to the gross pleasantries loved of the populace; especially when they are formulated by the shameless genius of an Aristophanes or a Plautus.

  • But there is no need for this hesitating exploration on the soil I have prepared for them; the whole area, or so it seems to me, lends itself excellently to the operations which I am expecting to see them commence.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    but these; cross road; ecclesiastical courts; give battle; good hunter; graven thing; guard against; hear anything; historic times; knew you; lends itself; march away; municipal trading; overwhelming majority; right after; spirit lamp; tail blackish; took charge; what does; will curdle; year later; your father