PROVIDE in a Sentence

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420 example sentences for PROVIDE, such as:
1. Nature does not provide everything we want.
2. The report was not expected to provide any answers.
3. The skylight will provide good illumination from above.
4. This, of course, was wholly beyond my ability to provide.
5. The Authority will provide a welfare worker to assist you.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of PROVIDE
provide
 v.  make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain
 v.  determine (what is to happen in certain contingencies), especially by including a proviso condition or stipulation
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  What punishment awaits us if it be discovered we know not, for no such crime has come in the memory of men and there are no laws to provide for it.
Anthem By Ayn Rand
Context  Highlight   In PART ONE
2  How hard it is in founding a commonwealth to provide it with all the laws needed to maintain its freedom, is well seen from the history of the Roman Republic.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XLIX.
3  The second method is to provide yourself with allies or companions, taking heed, however, to retain in your own hands the chief command, the seat of government, and the titular supremacy.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV.
4  If we note well the course of human affairs, we shall often find things come about and accidents befall, against which it seems to be the will of Heaven that men should not provide.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXIX.
5  But because, as I have said elsewhere, there is in everything a latent evil peculiar to it, giving rise to new mischances, it becomes necessary to provide against these by new ordinances.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XI.
6  It was very much like suddenly turning a youth of ten or twelve years out into the world to provide for himself.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I.
7  This was not bad for the teacher, for each family tried to provide the very best on the day the teacher was to be its guest.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II.
8  This, of course, was wholly beyond my ability to provide.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III.
9  Many of them had aged parents who were dependent upon them, and some of them were men who had wives whose support in some way they had to provide for.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III.
10  We were not able to provide enough bed-clothes to keep the students warm.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XI.
11  In fact, for some time we were not able to provide, except in a few cases, bedsteads and mattresses of any kind.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XI.
12  Often I found some of them sitting huddled around a fire, with the one blanket which we had been able to provide wrapped around them, trying in this way to keep warm.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XI.
13  Scarlett would have given anything to be able to provide the rest of the uniform, but the necessary materials were simply not to be had in Atlanta.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
14  Strained and hungry faces, black and white, were staring at her, mutely asking her to provide food.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
15  You see, the men can't stand to be away from their families when they know they're starving, so they go home to try to provide for them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The bank is able to provide photographic evidence of who used the machine.
2  The skylight will provide good illumination from above.
3  The pavements are designed to provide easy access for people in wheelchairs.
4  The project aims to provide an analysis of children's emotions.
5  The report was not expected to provide any answers.
6  You are required by the District Attorney to provide your phone bills, both business and personal.
7  We flatter ourselves that we provide the best service in town.
8  New ways to treat arthritis may provide an alternative to painkillers.
9  Satellite photographs provide us with a lot of information about their troop movements.
10  This type of exam does not provide a fair test of the student's knowledge.
11  All our hotels have been carefully selected for the excellent value they provide.
12  Nature does not provide everything we want.
13  The Authority will provide a welfare worker to assist you.
14  Remember to bring clothes that provide adequate protection against the wind and rain.
15  The National Cancer Institute now has a computerized system that can quickly provide information.