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comprise
verb as in make up, consist of
Example Sentences
More places are needed as the Ipswich Garden Suburb development, which could comprise 3,500 new homes, is built.
As the Guns N’ Roses bassist says, the songs that comprise that album were rooted in the reality of 1980s Hollywood.
We’re talking about groups that comprise a percentage point of the electorate here, a point there.
The judge reserved his position on a penalty, which could comprise of a maximum custodial sentence of 28 days for contempt of court.
In his review of "Whose Names Are Unknown" for the Steinbeck Review, Meyer points out that Steinbeck called himself “a shameless magpie” and was “accused of borrowing the stories that comprise 'Pastures of Heaven' from Beth Ingalls” as well as “the ideas of Edith Wagner for his short story ‘How Edith McGillicuddy Met Robert Louis Stevenson.’”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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