VERB
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set up for use
We put in a new sink
install the washer and dryer -
break into a conversation
her husband always chimes in, even when he is not involved in the conversation -
to insert between other elements
She interjected clever remarks -
place, fit, or thrust (something) into another thing
Insert your ticket here -
keep or lay aside for future use
store grain for the winter
The bear stores fat for the period of hibernation when he doesn't eat -
make an application as for a job or funding
We put in a grant to the NSF
How To Use put in In A Sentence
- A horizontal merger may enable the new entity to set price and output in the same manner as a single-firm monopolist, with the same consequences for consumer welfare.
- It's hay that may have become moldy - if it was moist when put in the haymow - but it is just as effective for mulching as good hay, and a great deal cheaper.
- You've got to put in work before you reap the rewards - and fair enough.
- It is unlikely that their blueprint for economic reform will be put into action.
- Speed ramps along College Road, put in to try and dissuade boy racers who use the road to cut from one side of the town to the other, have been branded useless.
- Why not put in some overtime at the office and find the company a way to save money, increase efficiency, or improve on a product?
- Besides that, there flourished some tufts of velvety grass, some scattered reeds, two plants of the yellow herb called tansy, four of a red flower, and a pretty white one; but the treasures of the rock consisted of three roots of garlic, which Maie had put in a cleft. The Lilac Fairy Book
- Browning is said to have written back that he used it to mean a piece of headgear for nuns, comparable to the cowls for monks he put in the same line.
- After advice from the district valuer, they put in an offer of £200,000, which was rejected.
- Early computers required input in the form of punched cards.