Example sentences for: compile

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

  • It would be impossible to compile a definitive glossary for this group, but a few examples follow: the heads (naval colloquialism, dating from the late nineteenth century, said to be from the location of the latrines on a ship); the longs (pet-name for latrines at Brasenose College, Oxford, from c. 1870, so-called because they were built from funds donated by a certain Lady Long); and greenhouses (Ulysses , Book VIII), James Joyce's personal slang for the public toilets after the color of their paint.

  • Not until 1872, however, did he compile these notes into book form, a volume with the splendid title, Recent Exemplifications of False Philology .

  • For example, while the university did not develop data on the actual cost of incidents, such as the cost of recovering from virus infections, the database could be used to compile such information, which would be useful in measuring the cost of security lapses and in determining how much to spend on controls to reduce such lapses.

  • This survey consists of a few simple questions merely designed to strip you bare psychologically and to allow us to compile an exhaustive medical and financial dossier on you that could be used for unimaginable purposes.

  • Among his precursors are Julia Margaret Cameron, the great 19 th -century British portraitist, and August Sander, who set out to compile a comprehensive visual record of German life between the world wars.


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