COMPOSE in a Sentence

Learn COMPOSE 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.
222 example sentences for COMPOSE, such as:
1. She began to compose at an early age.
2. He composed a lament to the dead soldier.
3. The universe is composed of discrete bodies.
4. Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
5. The force would be composed of troops from NATO countries.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of COMPOSE
compose
 v.  calm (someone, especially oneself); make quiet
 v.  produce a literary work
Classic Sentence: (190 in 13 pages)
1  She watched them fold their hands and compose their faces.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 9
2  He paced the apartment to and fro, now vainly exhorting the terrified maiden to compose herself, now hesitating concerning his own line of conduct.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
3  She walked out directly, as her uncle recommended, and followed his advice throughout, as far as she could; did check her tears; did earnestly try to compose her spirits and strengthen her mind.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
4  Mrs. Norris, much discontented, was obliged to compose herself to work again; and Fanny, walking off in agitating consciousness, found herself, as she anticipated, in another minute alone with Mr. Crawford.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
5  It is more difficult to speak well than to compose well; that is, the rules and trick of composition are oftener an object of study.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
6  The only interruption which thoughts like these received for nearly half an hour was from a sudden burst of her father's, not at all calculated to compose them.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
7  One more,' pursued the beadle; 'compose your darling feelings for only one more.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
8  'You must compose yourself,' said the doctor supporting her.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
9  Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room and continued a long time traversing my bed-chamber, unable to compose my mind to sleep.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
10  I found that I could not compose a female without again devoting several months to profound study and laborious disquisition.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
11  She made a strong attempt to compose herself, and stammered that he was as punctual as ever.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXIX
12  But the more he asked Mrs. Micawber to look up, the more she fixed her eyes on nothing; and the more he asked her to compose herself, the more she wouldn't.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 12. LIKING LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT NO BETTER, I FO...
13  And the more he tried to compose himself, the more breathless he found himself.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 9
14  NORA stands still for a little while, as if to compose herself.
A Doll's House By Henrik Ibsen
Context  Highlight   In ACT II
15  The fame, therefore, of her virtue shall never die, and the immortals shall compose a song that shall be welcome to all mankind in honour of the constancy of Penelope.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XXIV
Example Sentence: (32 in 3 pages)
1  Merce Cunningham has begun to use a computer in designing choreography. A software program allows him to compose arrangements of possible moves and immediately view them onscreen.
2  As you begin to compose, improvise on that melody and see where it naturally wants to take you.
3  You may now compose your hoary hosannas to this breakthrough for humankind -- or, at least, something that seems kind of human.
4  She began to compose at an early age.
5  The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the man who borrows, and the man who lends.
6  Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
7  The cell is the unit of which all living organisms are composed.
8  The force would be composed of troops from NATO countries.
9  Pictures should be in focus, with realistic colours and well composed groups.
10  I still can't trust myself to remain composed in their presence.
11  He composed a lament to the dead soldier.
12  The universe is composed of discrete bodies.
13  Limnology is essentially a synthetic science composed of elements.
14  I felt now as composed as ever I did in my life: there was nothing indeed in the gipsy's appearance to trouble one's calm.
15  The choral society sang the new cantata composed by its leader.