CONSTITUTIVE in a Sentence

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181 example sentences for CONSTITUTIVE, such as:

1. His nature was thus constituted.
2. He constituted himself the tribunal.
3. Henceforth, those four walls constituted his world.
4. Any reform will destroy and pervert our constitution.
5. The dispute over this plateau constituted the whole battle.

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 Meanings and Examples of CONSTITUTIVE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
constitutive
 a.  constitutional in the structure of something (especially your physical makeup)
Classic Sentence: (133 in 9 pages)
1  Pangloss explained to him how everything was so constituted that it could not be better.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In IV
2  Monsieur le maire, it may be that it is of this very flock of wolves that Jesus has constituted me the shepherd.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—CRAVATTE
3  He constituted himself the tribunal.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR
4  The dispute over this plateau constituted the whole battle.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—A
5  To teach Cosette to read, and to let her play, this constituted nearly the whole of Jean Valjean's existence.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUN...
6  They have dissolved the carnal family, and constituted in their community a spiritual family.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE CONVENT FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF PRINCIPL...
7  Fauchelevent knew all and concealed all; that constituted his art.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER II—FAUCHELEVENT IN THE PRESENCE OF A DIFFICULTY
8  Henceforth, those four walls constituted his world.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IX—CLOISTERED
9  A few friends assembled twice a week about her widowed hearth, and these constituted a purely Royalist salon.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—AN ANCIENT SALON
10  They designated the liberals as friends and brothers; this constituted the most deadly insult.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—AN ANCIENT SALON
11  This poor workingman had constituted himself the tutor of Justice, and she recompensed him by rendering him great.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
12  His nature was thus constituted.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
13  He drew as much as two thousand francs a year from it; this constituted nearly the whole of his fortune.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—M. MABEUF
14  Leblanc had given him, and his costume continued to present that contrast of coat and trousers which constituted the ideal of a poet in Courfeyrac's eyes.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XVII—THE USE MADE OF MARIUS' FIVE-FRANC PIECE
15  These obscure and lively roots constituted, not the right of a family, but the history of a people.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—WELL CUT
Example Sentence: (48 in 4 pages)
16  Brazil's constitution forbids the military use of nuclear energy.
17  Its constitution allows it to publish contracts and practice notes only where these have been approved unanimously by the constituent bodies.
18  Any reform will destroy and pervert our constitution.
19  Until the constitution is amended, the power to appoint ministers will remain with the president.
20  When he is sworn into office he will have to pledge his allegiance to the republican constitution.
21  He has a steely stare, a brassy attitude and an iron constitution.
22  This compact is the constitution, and a constitution is not a thing in name only, but in fact.
23  President Putin said Britain knew Russia's constitution prohibits such an extradition.
24  What we should not allow this moment to undermine, is our commitment to South Africa, to the constitution and the reconstruction.
25  We shouldn't be changing our constitution to suit a short-term whim or agenda.
26  The president, who imprisoned thousands of opponents after an attempted coup in 2016 and rigged the constitution, has a strained relationship with Germany.
27  The Senate duly approved Mr Rajoy's request to apply Article 155 of the constitution; it grants the government wide powers to compel a region to obey the constitution.
28  Abe's long-held dream to change the pacifist constitution got a big boost today as conservative coalition won a crucial 2/3 majority in a snap election.
29  For the sake of policy and representativeness, we need a constitutional amendment to remove this prerogative from the president.
30  Party leaders doubted that they had enough votes in both houses of Congress to ratify the constitutional amendment.