Example sentences for: devotes

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

  • Once commander of the Caniçal whaling station and thus responsible for taking 100–200 of the great c reatures each year, he now devotes his energy to saving the whale and other marine life of the area.

  • While the other two papers report on the killing, the Times devotes a large chunk of its story to fretting over whether Richard Holbrooke will be involved in the monitoring effort.

  • Gere is Ike Graham, a New York-based USA Today columnist, who hears about Maggie in a bar and, without even a call to confirm his facts ( check ), devotes his next piece to an un-PC screed on the inconstancy of all women ( check ) with this "runaway bride" as Exhibit A. The column makes him instantly ( check ) unpopular with all those Manhattan USA Today readers ( check ) who recognize him on the street ( check ), not to mention the hordes of small-town USA Today readers who wait for the paper's delivery truck as if it were the Good Humor man ( check ). After the subject of the column responds with a letter composed on a manual typewriter ( check ) disputing its facts, his editor and ex-wife ( check ) (Rita Wilson) promptly ( check ) fires him ( check ).

  • . And the LAT inexplicably devotes its entire third paragraph to an airy statement from the text of this morning's speech by Clinton--a statement that does nothing to help explain the proposal.

  • The WP devotes its front-page quake coverage to the story of 40-year-old Yuksel Er, who was pulled from the wreckage of his apartment building south of Istanbul Saturday after spending 97 hours trapped beneath rubble.


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