DEVISE in a Sentence

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54 example sentences for DEVISE, such as:

1. I devised how to catch the mouse.
2. He devised a plan whereby he might escape.
3. This is the most popular ball game ever devised.
4. All day she tried to devise a way of giving Erik up.
5. How clever he must be to devise such a devious plan!.

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 Meanings and Examples of DEVISE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
devise
 v.  form, plan, or arrange in the mind; transmit or give by will
Classic Sentence: (36 in 3 pages)
1  The little princess got up, rang for the maid, and hurriedly and merrily began to devise and carry out a plan of how Princess Mary should be dressed.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III
2  "He will not devise or undertake anything," thought Prince Andrew, "but he will hear everything, remember everything, and put everything in its place."
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XVI
3  The most suitable fete the Germans can devise for him is a celebration of Jena and Auerstadt.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER III
4  Met by this difficulty historians of that class devise some most obscure, impalpable, and general abstraction which can cover all conceivable occurrences, and declare this abstraction to be the aim of humanity's movement.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER IV
5  Just the same is done by a concourse of people, allowing those who do not take a direct part in the activity to devise considerations, justifications, and surmises concerning their collective activity.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER VII
6  Then there was the organization of Democrats who forgathered every Wednesday night to devise ways of regaining the ballot and Frank never missed a meeting.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
7  All day she tried to devise a way of giving Erik up.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
8  He meant to stop at the wedding on his way to New York and endeavor by every means which money and love could devise to atone somewhat for Edna's incomprehensible action.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXIV
9  Jean Valjean instantly quitted the boulevard and plunged into the streets, taking the most intricate lines which he could devise, returning on his track at times, to make sure that he was not being followed.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY
10  And it was necessary to decide on the instant, to devise some expedient, to come to some decision.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIV—PRISONER
11  That is more than time enough for us to devise a plan.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 47 THE COUNCIL OF THE MUSKETEERS
12  And why it was not done already she could not devise, for Miss Crawford certainly wanted no delay.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
13  Phelps and I talked it over on our journey, but neither of us could devise a satisfactory reason for this new development.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty
14  But in vain did he rack his imagination; fertile as it was, he could not devise any plan for reaching the island without companionship.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22. The Smugglers.
15  Feeling indignant that he was not taken into his tutor's confidence, he set his wits to work to devise some proper retaliation for the slight.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
Example Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1  Scientists are working to devise a means of storing this type of power.
2  We need to devise some sort of system whereby people can liaise with each other.
3  Clinton and Zedillo ordered their respective Cabinets to devise a common counter-drug strategy.
4  How clever he must be to devise such a devious plan!.
5  A simple mathematical formula has been devised to allow you to calculate the interest due.
6  This is the most popular ball game ever devised.
7  I devised how to catch the mouse.
8  Galton devised a method of creating composite pictures in which the features of different faces were superimposed over one another.
9  The professor has devised a new method of teaching foreign languages.
10  He has devised a process for making gold wires which neither corrode nor oxidise.
11  My inquiries reveal that most of these are caused by exercise programmes devised by ignorant charlatans feeding off our need for health.
12  He devised a plan whereby he might escape.
13  Many methods have been devised to separate the valuable metal from the dross.
14  The Spanish Inquisition devised many demoniac means of torture.
15  You need a flexible approach in devising your ground plan for bargaining.