COMBINE in a Sentence

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A stagnant economy combined with a surge in the number of teenagers is likely to have contributed to rising crime levels in the US.

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 Meanings and Examples of COMBINE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
combine
 v.  join together to make a single thing or group; blend, fuse, or merge
Classic Sentence: (107 in 8 pages)
1  He did not like to combine frivolity with the serious business of hunting.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV
2  It is essential for him to combine his movements with those of the commander-in-chief.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XVIII
3  When, for instance, we say that Napoleon ordered armies to go to war, we combine in one simultaneous expression a whole series of consecutive commands dependent one on another.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER VI
4  It should have the dignity of a ceremony, as well as its unreality, and should combine the insincere character of a romantic play with the wit and beauty that make such plays delightful to us.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
5  He suggested that they should combine the London School with Kew Gardens.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
6  He was happy to combine in the same imprecation the two things which he most detested, Prussia and England.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—A RESTRICTION
7  Elements and principles mingle, combine, wed, multiply with each other, to such a point that the material and the moral world are brought eventually to the same clearness.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS
8  The materials are all prepared; there only wants a movement to combine them.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
9  It was said that he was at the head of a combine worth more than a million dollars, with Wilmington as its headquarters for the purpose of buying blockade goods on the docks.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
10  No spider ever took more pains to repair the shattered meshes of his web, than did Waldemar Fitzurse to reunite and combine the scattered members of Prince John's cabal.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
11  For your danger lies in many having opposed you, who afterwards, should your advice prove hurtful, combine to ruin you.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXXV.
12  He combined a true judgment with simplicity of spirit, which was the reason, I apprehend, of his being called Candide.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In I
13  All the magnificence of these humble parishes combined would not have sufficed to clothe the chorister of a cathedral properly.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—CRAVATTE
14  Certain convicts who were forever dreaming of escape, ended by making a veritable science of force and skill combined.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR
15  He combined with admirable art, and in masterly proportions, the thirst of a gormandizer with the discretion of a judge.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH THE READER WILL PERUSE TWO VERSES, WH...
Example Sentence: (69 in 5 pages)
16  Your diligent combined with your innate talent indicates a dynamic future.
17  A number of factors have combined to create this difficult situation.
18  She had the combined talents of toughness, intellect, experience and unsullied reputation.
19  The two small shops combined to make a large one.
20  A stagnant economy combined with a surge in the number of teenagers is likely to have contributed to rising crime levels in the US.
21  The two parent groups now run their business as a single combined operation.
22  Thus it came about that, after many years as an interior designer and antiques dealer, he combined both businesses.
23  The Clinton campaign has raised more money in the first three months of this year than all nine Democratic candidates combined.
24  An explosive growth of international trade, combined with recent strides in telecommunication and information technology, has given rise to the global village.
25  This combined novel and treatise traces the history of an imaginary French fortress from the 4th Century B.C. through the Napoleonic Wars.
26  The Clinton campaign has raised more money in the first three months of this year than all nine Democratic candidates combined in the equivalent period for the 2004 election.
27  Money from migrant workers now exceeds the combined total of all direct foreign investment and foreign aid to Latin America 62.3 billion dollars.
28  My world history teacher was a short, stocky man who combined a fine mind with a homespun manner and an offbeat, wicked sense of humor.
29  Beckham's cultural clout, combined with his valuable (if diminished) presence on the soccer field, raised the profile of MLS.
30  Kennedy had turned 38 just two days earlier, and his mop of brown hair, slim frame, and charging intensity had always combined to project an aura of youth.