CONSTITUTE in a Sentence

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181 example sentences for CONSTITUTE, such as:

1. Any reform will destroy and pervert our constitution.
2. These rights are established in the federal constitution.
3. Brazil's constitution forbids the military use of nuclear energy.
4. He has a steely stare, a brassy attitude and an iron constitution.
5. The nation's constitution provided a model that other countries followed.

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 Meanings and Examples of CONSTITUTE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
constitute
 v.  make up; form something
Classic Sentence: (133 in 9 pages)
1  The walls were white, the tables were black; these two mourning colors constitute the only variety in convents.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER V—DISTRACTIONS
2  His tendency, and we say it with the proper amount of regret, would not constitute classic taste.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—HE IS AGREEABLE
3  The elements which constitute the consideration of the gamins for each other are very various.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—THE GAMIN SHOULD HAVE HIS PLACE IN THE CLASSI...
4  They constitute two different orders of facts which correspond to each other, which are always interlaced, and which often bring forth results.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—ORIGIN
5  This agony and this immortality are about to join and constitute our death.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT O...
6  A platoon of the National Guard would constitute itself on its own authority a private council of war, and judge and execute a captured insurgent in five minutes.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—DISORDER A PARTISAN OF ORDER
7  In the meanwhile, how disheartening to see the woman one loves long for those thousands of nothings which constitute a woman's happiness, and be unable to give her those thousands of nothings.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 11 IN WHICH THE PLOT THICKENS
8  He would not have believed that two sentiments so opposite could dwell in the same heart, and by their union constitute a passion so strange, and as it were, diabolical.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 35 A GASCON A MATCH FOR CUPID
9  But the meal did not constitute by any means the best of which Chichikov had ever partaken, seeing that some of the dishes were overcooked, and others were scarcely cooked at all.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV
10  Also, such crowds of feminine shoppers began to repair to the Bazaar as almost to constitute a crush, and something like a procession of carriages ensued, so long grew the rank of vehicles.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII
11  Every one of them had made up her mind to use upon him her every weapon, and to exhibit whatsoever might chance to constitute her best point.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII
12  At the present moment the master of the house was engaged in giving the cook orders for what, under the guise of an early breakfast, promised to constitute a veritable dinner.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
13  My whole idea is that if vicious people are united and constitute a power, then honest folk must do the same.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER XVI
14  These are things which may swell your strength but do not constitute it, being in themselves null and of no avail without an army on which you can depend.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X.
15  Once more, therefore, I repeat that not gold but good soldiers constitute the sinews of war.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X.
Example Sentence: (48 in 4 pages)
16  The president has promised a new constitution and the creation of democratic power structures.
17  These rights are established in the federal constitution.
18  The courts struck down local segregation laws because they violated the federal constitution.
19  The nation's constitution provided a model that other countries followed.
20  The movement to change the union's constitution is slowly gathering momentum.
21  Brazil's constitution forbids the military use of nuclear energy.
22  Its constitution allows it to publish contracts and practice notes only where these have been approved unanimously by the constituent bodies.
23  Any reform will destroy and pervert our constitution.
24  Until the constitution is amended, the power to appoint ministers will remain with the president.
25  When he is sworn into office he will have to pledge his allegiance to the republican constitution.
26  He has a steely stare, a brassy attitude and an iron constitution.
27  This compact is the constitution, and a constitution is not a thing in name only, but in fact.
28  President Putin said Britain knew Russia's constitution prohibits such an extradition.
29  What we should not allow this moment to undermine, is our commitment to South Africa, to the constitution and the reconstruction.
30  We shouldn't be changing our constitution to suit a short-term whim or agenda.