devise

How To Use devise In A Sentence

• He first constructed a horizontal wheel that he named a Danaide, and later devised another, the Vortex Water Wheel, which he patented in July 1850 and which came to be used extensively.
• When the new student funding system was devised in 2010 the figure was just 28%. Times, Sunday Times
• The baronetage of Nova Scotia was devised in 1624 as a means of promoting the "plantation" of that province, and James announced his intention of creating a hundred baronets, each of whom was to support six colonists for two years (or pay 2000 marks in lieu thereof) and also to pay 1000 marks to Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
• He could hardly be said to have "devised a feasible method for regular use. FINGERPRINTS: Murder and the Race to Uncover the Science of Identity
• We have devised a functional approach to clone genes involved in the regulation of cell growth and senescence.
• In the twelfth century the canon lawyers devised an elaborate, and comparatively humane, legal framework for poor relief.
• One such is the following chart, which can be used to devise typical bureaucratic phrases that sound impressive but mean nothing.
• An inventor in Finland has devised a new method of keeping dogs safe from wolves: little protective vests. Times, Sunday Times
• He replied, “I know not; but thou art better able to judge, being acquainted with the ways of thy man, more by token that thou art one of the sharpest-witted of women and past mistress of devices such as devise that whereof fail the wise.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• To circumvent this problem, I have devised a system of price bands. The A-Z of Beauty Treatment