Example sentences for: combines

How can you use “combines” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It combines three points Clinton and his surrogates have been making for months.

  • Whereas in English there are totally different words to express different aspects of speech, the word tok combines with other words to define various kinds of communication: tokaut `speak out,' tok baksait `gossip,' toktok `converse,' tok mama `advise,' tok hait `secret,' tok tru `truth,' tok nogut `foul language,' tok giaman `lying,' tok pait `argue,' tok ples `local language,' tok tasol `idea,' tok nating `nonsense,' tok isi `comfort,' tok pani `joke,' tok strong `emphasize.

  • Miranda has its own culture and a distinctive dialect, Mirandês, that freely combines Latin, Portuguese, Spanish, and even some Hebrew.

  • Memsahib `term of respect for a European lady,' for example, derives from English ma'am and Hindi sahib `sir, master,' a word borrowed by Hindi from Arabic; boxwallah `peddler' combines English box and Hindi wallah `person in charge of a particular thing'; chotapeg `half-sized drink' unites Hindi chota `little, small' and English peg (Anglo-Indian slang since at least 1864 for a drink, especially of brandy and soda water); and shroffage `commission charged for shroffing' combines shroff (an adaptation of Hindi saraf `banker, money-lender,' a word borrowed from Arabic) and the English suffix - age . Combinations of Hindi and Persian elements include:

  • A consensus seems to be emerging that the most proficient attempts to reconstruct evolutionary events will employ a multifaceted approach that combines tree inference with parametric analysis in a biological context [ 21, 22].


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