Example sentences for: gives

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

  • Nevertheless, this rule gives a satisfactory performance and is used in the absence of a better choice.

  • Ramón Laval gives a brief literary history of de Urdemalas and publishes a small series of tales collected in Chile in the late nineteenth century.

  • I fear that Dr. Richards did not have us in mind when he set to work, for he omitted to include such words as tomato, bathroom, cutlet, cauliflower , and railway station . Yet let no one say he was not a mundane man, for he gives us the Welsh for port, sherry, whisky, brandy, burgundy, claret , and even Rhenish wine . And do you know that there are ten words in Welsh for fashion ? But none, apparently, for tomato, bathroom, cutlet , etc.

  • Or fame, even, really--remember how grossed out he gets (as does the reader) when Gilderoy Lockhart gives him tips for grabbing the spotlight?

  • He gives the Republicans intellectual window dressing to what would otherwise be just more incoherent anti-Clintonism.


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