COMBINE in a Sentence

Learn COMBINE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
176 example sentences for COMBINE, such as:
1. Hydrogen and oxygen combine to form water.
2. None of us has much money so let's combine what we've got.
3. The combine had cut a swathe around the edge of the field.
4. She's struggling to combine motherhood and a career as a lawyer.
5. When an element is caused to combine with oxygen it is oxidized.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of COMBINE
combine
 v.  put or add together
 v.  have or possess in combination
Classic Sentence: (107 in 8 pages)
1  He did not like to combine frivolity with the serious business of hunting.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV
2  It is essential for him to combine his movements with those of the commander-in-chief.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XVIII
3  When, for instance, we say that Napoleon ordered armies to go to war, we combine in one simultaneous expression a whole series of consecutive commands dependent one on another.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER VI
4  It should have the dignity of a ceremony, as well as its unreality, and should combine the insincere character of a romantic play with the wit and beauty that make such plays delightful to us.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
5  He suggested that they should combine the London School with Kew Gardens.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
6  He was happy to combine in the same imprecation the two things which he most detested, Prussia and England.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—A RESTRICTION
7  Elements and principles mingle, combine, wed, multiply with each other, to such a point that the material and the moral world are brought eventually to the same clearness.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS
8  The materials are all prepared; there only wants a movement to combine them.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
9  It was said that he was at the head of a combine worth more than a million dollars, with Wilmington as its headquarters for the purpose of buying blockade goods on the docks.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
10  No spider ever took more pains to repair the shattered meshes of his web, than did Waldemar Fitzurse to reunite and combine the scattered members of Prince John's cabal.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
11  For your danger lies in many having opposed you, who afterwards, should your advice prove hurtful, combine to ruin you.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXXV.
12  He combined a true judgment with simplicity of spirit, which was the reason, I apprehend, of his being called Candide.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In I
13  All the magnificence of these humble parishes combined would not have sufficed to clothe the chorister of a cathedral properly.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—CRAVATTE
14  Certain convicts who were forever dreaming of escape, ended by making a veritable science of force and skill combined.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR
15  He combined with admirable art, and in masterly proportions, the thirst of a gormandizer with the discretion of a judge.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH THE READER WILL PERUSE TWO VERSES, WH...
Example Sentence: (69 in 5 pages)
1  And when we come together, combine the light that shines within.
2  Hydrogen and oxygen combine to form water.
3  Traditional quilts combine the discipline of pattern with the artistic freedom to choose color and scale.
4  The combine had cut a swathe around the edge of the field.
5  When an element is caused to combine with oxygen it is oxidized.
6  The Church has something to say on how to combine freedom with responsibility.
7  It is highly important that we combine revolutionary sweep with practicalness.
8  She's struggling to combine motherhood and a career as a lawyer.
9  Augustine was later to combine elements of this philosophy with the teachings of Christianity.
10  None of us has much money so let's combine what we've got.
11  More important, in the civic culture participant political orientations combine with and do not replace subject and parochial political orientations.
12  Re-branded as one-army recruitment, the latest drive will, for the first time, combine recruiting to both the regular and territorial army.
13  Engineers strive to combine automated devices with mathematical and organizational tools to create complex systems.
14  His hard-nosed business approach is combined with a very real concern for the less fortunate in society.
15  Taylor combined great knowledge with an irreverent attitude to history.