Example sentences for: compile

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

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

  • 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.

  • The National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention use data collected by the cancer registries to compile national statistics on the incidence of cancer.

  • We then compile tables of scores proportional to the negative log conditional probability that one is observing a native conformation given an interatomic distance for all possible pairs of the 167 atom types for the 18 distance ranges.

  • The true etymologies of some words are weird and fanciful enough—sometimes unbelievably so—and it must be they that inspired Tuleja to compile this collection, largely (if not entirely) out of his imagination.


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