depend upon

VERB
  1. put trust in with confidence
    you can rely on his discretion
    she is someone you can really rely on when times get rough
  2. be contingent on
    The outcomes rides on the results of the election
    Your grade will depends on your homework

How To Use depend upon In A Sentence

  • We had engaged a very nice mare and stanhope, which we knew we could depend upon, when, the day before the race, the chestnut was declared lame, and not a presentable four-legged animal was to be hired in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846
  • Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
  • Many details of the after treatment depend upon the special disease, as the rubbing of the body with carbolized vaseline after scarlet fever, the care of the eyes after measles, and other particulars of which space does not admit mention here. A Practical Physiology
  • The effects of shiatsu, acupuncture, moxa, and herbal medicine are still questioned in Japan because they seem to depend upon the individual and are very difficult to replicate or to validate scientifically.
  • First are theoretical approaches which depend upon some empirical knowledge to apply theoretical concepts such as the continuity equation.
  • Some findings of primary fact will be the result of direct evidence, whereas others will depend upon inference from direct evidence of such facts.
  • Advocates of such treatment compare patients to individuals who take insulin, epileptics who use antiepileptic drugs, or those who depend upon antirheumatic medications.
  • They realized that, whether a man is most swayed by the one or the other, what he must most depend upon and desire, is a knowledge of futurity.
  • This will partly depend upon what you mean by hypnoanalysis. Hypnoanalysis . . . . . . a query with some thoughts
  • It is self-understood, however, that the appliance of this rule will depend upon the peculiar laws of each country, and that, apart from legal obstacles, no independent local society shall be precluded from directly corresponding with the General
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