Example sentences for: devote

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

  • Since there is disputation about what exactly got said, and your bet was with a friend, Prudie suggests the two of you go out to lunch--Dutch--and devote some of the luncheon conversation to the sad and shabby affair.

  • Meanwhile, there is another ethnic group in America whose children devote their free time not to hockey but to extra study.

  • Because companies may miss opportunities to improve processes, both from an environmental, worker health, and production standpoint without adequate technical assistance that comes from non-commercial sources, worker health agencies should devote resources to this task and/or link companies to such resources.

  • We will devote the most attention to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the chief manager of the "planes operation."

  • If her company thinks she's worth what she's being paid, why should it encourage her to devote several hours a week to, say, working in a soup kitchen, when others would gladly--gratefully--do that work for far less?


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