be an element of

Example Sentences

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There can be an element of truth in both questions.

From BBC • May 21, 2024

However, Walsh did acknowledge in an interview that “there may be an element of messaging” in the three most recent initiatives and getting them on the ballot will be “tough.”

From Seattle Times • Apr. 9, 2024

Love may not be blind, but there may be an element of calculus in succeeding at it.

From Salon • Oct. 12, 2023

“When I came to New York, I was a teenager, and to become an actor there has to be an element of self-involvement, a deep kind of self-involvement,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 6, 2023

There must always be an element of shrewdness and even of contempt; he must be the man who knows and judges—or at least who pretends.

From The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. by Various