COMPRISE in a Sentence

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27 example sentences for COMPRISE, such as:

1. Three months comprised thirteen weeks.
2. A cricket team is comprised of eleven players.
3. It appeared to comprise a poulterer's premises.
4. These observations comprise the whole of the case.
5. The house comprises two bedrooms, a kitchen, and a living room.

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 Meanings and Examples of COMPRISE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
comprise
 v.  include; consist of; be composed of
Classic Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1  These observations comprise the whole of the case.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V
2  After the waste of a few minutes in saying the proper nothings, she began to give the invitation which was to comprise all the remaining dues of the Musgroves.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
3  I have just received your letter, and shall devote this whole morning to answering it, as I foresee that a little writing will not comprise what I have to tell you.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 52
4  Nor do heroes, saints, demigods, and prophets alone comprise the whole roll of our order.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 82. The Honour and Glory of Whaling.
5  It appeared to comprise a poulterer's premises.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER III
6  At the period of our arrival at the Island, the heaviest storage of the Pequod had been almost completed; comprising her beef, bread, water, fuel, and iron hoops and staves.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 20. All Astir.
7  As a general thing, these ship-keepers are as hardy fellows as the men comprising the boats' crews.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 93. The Castaway.
8  Hougomont viewed on the map, as a geometrical plan, comprising buildings and enclosures, presents a sort of irregular rectangle, one angle of which is nicked out.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT
9  To gain the sympathy and cooperation of the various elements comprising the white South was Mr. Washington's first task; and this, at the time Tuskegee was founded, seemed, for a black man, well-nigh impossible.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In III
10  My first quarter at Lowood seemed an age; and not the golden age either; it comprised an irksome struggle with difficulties in habituating myself to new rules and unwonted tasks.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
11  comprised in your initials written in books you have at different times lent me; but I never asked for what name it stood.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
12  In Lydia's imagination, a visit to Brighton comprised every possibility of earthly happiness.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 41
13  Of this seventy-two feet, his skull and jaw comprised some twenty feet, leaving some fifty feet of plain back-bone.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 103. Measurement of The Whale's Skeleton.
14  Three months comprised thirteen weeks.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
15  Chichikov replied that such cases were common, since nature comprised many things which even the finest intellect could not compass.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER II
Example Sentence:
1  If the District of Columbia were to be granted statehood, the United States of America would comprise fifty-one states, not just fifty.
2  The task force is comprised of congressional leaders, cabinet heads and administration officials.
3  Two small boys and a dog comprised the street entertainer's only audience.
4  At its fullest extent the Angevin Empire comprised most of western France.
5  A cricket team is comprised of eleven players.
6  The house comprises two bedrooms, a kitchen, and a living room.
7  The course comprises a class book, a practice book and an audio tape.