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Example sentences for "undergo"

Lexicographically close words:
underfoot; underfur; undergarment; undergarments; underglaze; undergoe; undergoes; undergoing; undergone; undergraduate
  1. I may begin by saying that it is the invariable rule at Oxford to send all men who may be required for the University Eight to undergo a preliminary medical examination.

  2. On the contrary, I can point to scores and scores of men who have been strengthened in limb and health--I say nothing here of any moral effect--by their early races and the training they had to undergo for them.

  3. But it was made to undergo several processes that conferred on it extraordinary virtues.

  4. No more "marble halls" for us, if we had to undergo the peine forte et dure as the condition of our presence!

  5. The Turkish soldier is among the toughest as well as the bravest in the world, and he will undergo great hardships uncomplainingly; but there are limits even to his endurance.

  6. For some weeks or months after this initiation B would undergo a term of probation; orders would come to him by secret channels and he would obey them, but he would see no member of the Society.

  7. Let us also assume that the element of length, ds, is unchanged (to the first order) when all its points undergo the same infinitesimal motion.

  8. But Diogo Pires fancied the coldness of the alleged envoy to be owing to the circumstance that he had not accepted the sign of the covenant, and he forthwith proceeded to undergo the dangerous operation of circumcision.

  9. But what changes and vicissitudes they had to undergo before this almost undreamed of possibility could become reality!

  10. May an appreciable amount undergo destruction before this is accomplished?

  11. In one of these volumes Lavoisier claims for himself the exclusive discovery of the cause of the augmentation of weight which bodies undergo during combustion and calcination.

  12. And, from the recent experiments of Pouillet, it seems to follow that electricity is evolved only when bodies undergo chemical decomposition or combination.

  13. If this were not so (this at least is what they urge), it would be a monstrous freedom for one man to take with another, to say that he should undergo the chances and changes of this mortal life without any option in the matter.

  14. I do not suppose that even my host, on having swindled a confiding widow out of the whole of her property, was put to more actual suffering than a man will readily undergo at the hands of an English doctor.

  15. I question not but it will undergo the censure of those men, who teach the people, that miracles are ceased.

  16. No words can describe the torment I had to undergo the hour after midnight.

  17. On the other hand, that part of capital represented by labour-power does, in the process of production, undergo an alteration of value.

  18. One variety of these cells, the spermatogonia, undergo an increase of size at puberty, and from these spermatogonia, after passing through several intermediate transitional stages, the spermatozoa are formed.

  19. It would naturally be of the utmost importance to be able to foresee the cases in which it is likely that the sexual processes of childhood would undergo an exceptionally early development.

  20. The genital corpuscles of Krause and the corpuscles of Finger (Wollustkörperchen), the terminals of the nerves passing to the erectile tissue of the clitoris, undergo at this time a marked increase in size.

  21. It is obvious that the many transhipments that coffee coming from Cucuta has to undergo greatly retard its arrival at a foreign port; and a cargo sometimes takes a month or more to reach New York.

  22. Some of the more delicate constituents are unfavorably affected by such treatment, and undergo hydrolysis and oxidation.

  23. They will undergo any danger whatsoever, as Sir Walter Manny in Edward the Third's time, stuck full of ladies' favours, fought like a dragon.

  24. But he did not wish that the terms of peace he proposed to dictate should be subjected to the criticism and revision of the European Powers, nor to undergo the fate which fell on Russia twelve years later.

  25. Worst of all was it when they were unable to pay even the few shillings required; they then had to undergo the hardship and disgrace of distraint, and see their furniture seized and sold by the tax-collectors.

  26. The minuteness of the absorbent vessels, and the changes which their contents undergo in their glands, prevent any unhealthy fluids from being as readily recognised in them as in the veins.

  27. In the more distant forests, however, they have to undergo great danger in the work.

  28. She will scarcely be able to undergo the fatigue of so long a walk," he remarked.

  29. The man accepted the advice of his soul, and was about to follow it literally, when the soul itself drew back, being afraid to undergo the sufferings inherent in such a death for the body.

  30. No little skill was required to construct it, and poor girls could sometimes earn a living by letting out their heads by the hour to undergo the practice of clumsy barbers' apprentices.

  31. A new book was liable to undergo a triple ordeal.

  32. If anyone has been accused of violating the peace and denies the charge, he shall take the communion and undergo the ordeal of hot iron.

  33. Adjuration of the man who is to undergo the ordeal: I adjure you (name), by the invocation of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the ordeal of cold water.

  34. No one may force a Jew to undergo the ordeal of hot iron, hot water, or cold water, or have him beaten with rods or thrown into prison, but he shall be tried according to his own law after forty days.

  35. She wished to be able to explain to them that she was not at all to blame that she, who was so young and so insignificant, was to undergo such a martyr's death, and that so much trouble should be made on her account.

  36. It must yet undergo considerable change before it reaches the structural condition of a fully developed and fully grown fish.

  37. While certain fishes are subject to a sort of metamorphosis, the nature of this change is in no way to be compared with the change in insects which undergo a complete metamorphosis.

  38. But for me, you would not have had to undergo this wandering and danger.

  39. Frank also wrote a few lines, addressed to Warley, in which he told him, that they had found their life of late so unendurable that they had resolved to brave every toil and danger, rather than continue to undergo it.

  40. But that would not be finally decided until the following day; only, anyhow, they were quite sure to undergo death in some painful and lingering shape.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "undergo" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.