PREPARE in a Sentence

Learn PREPARE 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.
418 example sentences for PREPARE, such as:
1. If you want peace, prepare for war.
2. Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.
3. If you fail to prepare, you're prepared to fail.
4. By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
5. You'll find these meals quick and convenient to prepare.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of PREPARE
prepare
 v.  educate for a future role or function
 v.  lead up to and soften by sounding the dissonant note in it as a consonant note in the preceding chord
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Into this hole, the end of the second alternating great tackle is then hooked so as to retain a hold upon the blubber, in order to prepare for what follows.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 67. Cutting In.
2  They liked to prepare rich, hearty food and to see people eat it; to make up soft white beds and to see youngsters asleep in them.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VI
3  Once or twice she took a quiet dinner there alone, having instructed Celestine beforehand to prepare no dinner at home.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXVI
4  After this there is beer for every one, the musicians included, and the revelers take a long breath and prepare for the great event of the evening, which is the acziavimas.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
5  Here were crops that men had worked for three or four months to prepare, and of which they would lose nearly all unless they could find others to help them for a week or two.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
6  So Jurgis went on meditating; until finally, when he had been an hour or two in the hall, there began to prepare itself a repetition of the dismal catastrophe of the night before.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 28
7  That which at first was only rumor, soon became certainty, as orders passed from the quarters of the commander-in-chief to the several corps he had selected for this service, to prepare for their speedy departure.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1
8  When the appetites of the whole were appeased, the squaws removed the trenchers and gourds, and the two parties began to prepare themselves for a subtle trial of their wits.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 28
9  I began, with the commencement of the year, to prepare myself for a final struggle, which should decide my fate one way or the other.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
10  I now had three weeks during which to prepare for my journey.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
11  We now began to feel a degree of safety, and to prepare ourselves for the duties and responsibilities of a life of freedom.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
12  The boat now began, with heavy groans, like some vast, tired monster, to prepare to push up among the multiplied steamers at the levee.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
13  The party of horsemen came up to the fence, and, with mingled shouts and oaths, were dismounting, to prepare to follow them.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
14  No alarm takes place, till this chap, Bitzer, turns out this morning, and begins to open and prepare the offices for business.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
15  "Front-de-Boeuf must prepare to restore his fief of Ivanhoe," said De Bracy, who, having discharged his part honourably in the tournament, had laid his shield and helmet aside, and again mingled with the Prince's retinue.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
Example Sentence: (208 in 14 pages)
1  Quantities will vary according to how many servings of soup you want to prepare.
2  Youth is to prepare the material, want to build a bridge to the moon, or on the ground and two palaces or temples.
3  If you want peace, prepare for war.
4  Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.
5  The object of educator is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
6  Open prisons prepare prisoners for life back in the community.
7  Each school was encouraged to define its particular needs and prepare a programme which would best meet them.
8  This delicious variation on an omelette is quick and easy to prepare.
9  By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
10  If you fail to prepare, you're prepared to fail.
11  You'll find these meals quick and convenient to prepare.
12  The first step in a job search is to prepare an up-to-date CV.
13  Two leading law firms are to prepare legal actions against tobacco companies.
14  Soccer fever has been sweeping the nation as they prepare for the World Cup.
15  Classroom activities here would prepare the learners to recognize the relevant co-occurrences and correlations as they occur in actual use.