DEVELOPED in a Sentence

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Aunt Pitty did get into a state, and Peter's misery developed overnight to such proportions that he never drove the buggy again.

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 Meanings and Examples of DEVELOPED
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
developed
 v.  (past tense) grow into a more mature or advanced state
 a.  advanced to a specified degree
Classic Sentence: (167 in 12 pages)
1  And within a year of their marriage she developed the "sickliness" which had since made her notable even in a community rich in pathological instances.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
2  And even if no emergency developed, Frank would need to make more money, if she was going to save enough for next year's taxes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
3  Aunt Pitty did get into a state, and Peter's misery developed overnight to such proportions that he never drove the buggy again.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
4  They let on that if they'd waited two hours more the kid would have developed peritonitis, and God knows what all; and then they collected a nice fat hundred and fifty dollars.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
5  Hugh developed into a thin healthy child with a large head and straight delicate hair of a faint brown.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
6  For fussy discussion they had a rich, full genius, and their example developed in Kennicott a tendency to the same form of affectionate flaying.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
7  Queequeg was George Washington cannibalistically developed.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10. A Bosom Friend.
8  The magnetic energy, as developed in the mariner's needle, is, as all know, essentially one with the electricity beheld in heaven; hence it is not to be much marvelled at, that such things should be.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 124. The Needle.
9  It developed that Mrs. Shimerda and Ambrosch wanted the old man buried on the southwest corner of their own land; indeed, under the very stake that marked the corner.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XV
10  Tiny sold her hotel, invested half her money in Dawson building lots, and with the rest she developed her claim.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: I
11  At the preliminary examination, it developed that he had been a suitor of the girl's.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In VII
12  They were not sure that it was unpleasant, this odor; some might have called it sickening, but their taste in odors was not developed, and they were only sure that it was curious.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
13  Jurgis developed a fondness for having Ona on his arm whenever he went out on the street, and he would hold her tightly, and walk fast.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
14  In the face of handicaps such as these the packers counted themselves lucky if they could kill off the cattle that had been crippled in transit and the hogs that had developed disease.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 26
15  Once a certain tall soldier developed virtues and went resolutely to wash a shirt.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  The city has developed into a center of industry.
17  Certain characteristics can be developed through selective breeding.
18  The two species have developed from a common ancestry.
19  The place has rapidly developed from a small fishing community into a thriving tourist resort.
20  The company has developed sales through local agents in key markets.
21  As young people started to have more money, a significant youth culture developed.
22  The product was developed in response to customer demand.
23  A conservative coalition of Democrat and Republican congressmen developed which could delay further reforms, and sometimes block them altogether.
24  Comparison with his previous movies shows how Lee has developed as a director.
25  A new method of fuel injection was developed during the war.
26  Cheaper energy conservation techniques have been put into operation in the developed world.
27  Physics is the best example of a science which has developed strong, abstract theories.
28  It has developed very fast in the past years,more and more people come here to seek opportunities.
29  I'd like to get this film developed.
30  He said that developed countries had a responsibility to foster global economic growth to help new democracies.