DEVICE in a Sentence
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106 example sentences for DEVICE, such as:
1. Gold ring, with masonic device.
2. The retention of data in a storage device.
3. The device is not a real bomb but a dummy.
4. A computer is a device for processing information.
5. Cover the entire device to prevent water penetration.
2. The retention of data in a storage device.
3. The device is not a real bomb but a dummy.
4. A computer is a device for processing information.
5. Cover the entire device to prevent water penetration.
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Meanings and Examples of DEVICE
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device
n. an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose
n. any clever maneuver
Classic Sentence: (58 in 4 pages)
1 Gold ring, with masonic device.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
2 No graceful little adornment, no fanciful little device, however trivial, anywhere expressed her influence.
3 It was covered with a scarlet cloth, which prevented the device from being seen.
4 His suit of armour was formed of steel, richly inlaid with gold, and the device on his shield was a young oak-tree pulled up by the roots, with the Spanish word Desdichado, signifying Disinherited.
5 A marvellously sage plan," said Fitzurse, "and, as I think, not entirely of thine own device.
6 A fetterlock and shacklebolt azure," said Ivanhoe; "I know not who may bear the device, but well I ween it might now be mine own.
7 His only accomplice was one who could never give him away, and the grotesque, inconceivable nature of the device only served to make it more effective.
8 A threadbare and venerable device, but useful upon occasion.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING THREE-QUARTER
Context Highlight In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING THREE-QUARTER
9 And when, in spite of this, the tribunes stubbornly persisted in their efforts to pass the law, declaring the act of Herdonius to be a device of the nobles and no real danger.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII.
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII.
10 The latter device made the people ashamed to give, the former ashamed to refuse.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XLVIII.
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XLVIII.
11 And this device was afterwards followed by many other captains.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XII.
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XII.
12 Here I must not omit to notice the device practised by Fabius to give his army confidence, when he led it for the first time into Etruria.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXXIII.
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXXIII.
13 And as this device was dexterously used it merits imitation.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXXIII.
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXXIII.
14 He never understood the legal device that was used against him but what remained of the millions went intact to Ella Kaye.
15 Possibly, it was an instinctive device of her spirit to relieve itself by the exhibition of these phantasmagoric forms, from the cruel weight and hardness of the reality.
Example Sentence: (48 in 4 pages)
1 These arguments may have been used as a rhetorical device to argue for a perpetuation of a United Nations role.
2 Yeah right, a little virgin, a device sent by heaven to cleanse your soul.
3 They claim that military spending is used as a device for managing the economy.
4 A computer is a device for processing information.
5 The documents contain a blueprint for a nuclear device.
6 Cover the entire device to prevent water penetration.
7 The retention of data in a storage device.
8 A detonator is any device containing an explosive that is actuated by heat, percussion, friction, or electricity.
9 This portable device enables deaf people to telephone the hospital by typing a message instead of speaking.
10 The explosive device was timed to go off at the rush hour.
11 The new device emits a powerful circular column of light.
12 The school's audio-visual apparatus includes a new set of multi-media device, not to mention films, records, etc.
13 France is expected to detonate its first nuclear device in the next few days.
14 The device is not a real bomb but a dummy.
15 The report was a device used to hide rather than reveal problems.