Example sentences for: devise

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

  • He writes that several years ago he tried to persuade Norman to devise a screenplay about Shakespeare's relationship with the homosexual playwright Christopher Marlowe, whose murder in a tavern in 1593 forms a subplot to Shakespeare in Love . Other scholars are gentler on the film.

  • At CASP4, we used our expertise to manually devise a single hierarchical filtering scheme where we successively eliminated 10% of the conformations with each filter until we were left with one conformation.

  • I intended to ask participants to devise similar but imaginary perqs that perfectly captured the ethos of other media companies, but then I couldn't shake the image of Ved Mehta in spandex, so I think I'd better go lie down and put a cold compress on my forehead.

  • If the private sector does not devise ways to sell, and so limit, use of the Net, the government will surely find a way to tax it.

  • Devise a plan of action, on a statewide basis, to address the identified needs of low income persons in the present while ensuring that the civil legal needs of future generations of low-income persons can be efficiently and effectively addressed.


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