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Example sentences for "apply"

Lexicographically close words:
applied; applieng; applies; applieth; applique; applye; applyed; applying; appoint; appointable
  1. Critics should not, as they sometimes do, apply to donkeys the standards by which nightingales are judged.

  2. Now, let's apply business sense to this problem.

  3. I'll tell you a story: you may apply it as you like.

  4. At least, he would never have had the heart to apply the hot tongs to such a nose as Valencia's, but at most have bowed her out pityingly, as Frank tried to bow out Valencia from the sacred place of his heart, but failed.

  5. You are getting beyond me: but why do you not apply a little of the worldly wisdom which these same casuists taught you?

  6. But the fault of your cloth seems to me to be that they apply their medicines without deigning, most of them, to take the least diagnosis of the case.

  7. It is true that they have not yet learned to apply the knowledge fully, but they are learning.

  8. I loved pleasure too much to apply myself to work, and was too self-indulgent to deny myself anything.

  9. She was afraid to apply to any one for redress, and they knew it.

  10. They have," said Wolffert, "but we are teaching them how to apply it.

  11. But when Vologasus and Tiridates did not agree to apply to the Roman government for the investing of the latter with Armenia,[32] Corbulo took the offensive against Tiridates in the year 58.

  12. Augustus further directed the governors of Asia not to apply the rigorous imperial laws respecting unions and assemblies against the Jews.

  13. We are accustomed to designate the nation by the name of Berbers, which the Arabs apply to the northern tribes.

  14. The same law was found to apply to the flames of other bodies; those requiring the least heat for their combustion always sustaining the greater rarefaction without being extinguished.

  15. The same observation will apply to the recently discovered body, Bromine.

  16. We may upon this occasion truly apply to the author the words of Lucretius-- "Processit longe flammantia moenia mundi.

  17. On the geological scheme of the early history of the globe, there are only analogies to guide us, which different minds may apply and interpret in different ways; but I will not trifle with a long preliminary discourse.

  18. I leave the copyright of Salmonia to my brother John Davy wishing him to apply a part of the profits of the sale of the editions of this work to the education of my nephew Humphrey Millett in case he has no children of his own.

  19. To learn this from such practical authority is the highest gratification to a person whose ardent desire has always been to apply science to purposes of utility.

  20. I understand that the present Master, the Reverend Mr. Morris, has expressed his intention to apply the above sum to purchasing a medal, which he intends to bestow as a Prize to the most meritorious scholar.

  21. For this it will suffice to modify its velocity until the axis appears to be at rest, and to apply the revolution counter to the wheel upon which the prism is mounted, or to another wheel controlling the mechanism.

  22. It is further intended more especially to apply to the æsthetic use.

  23. As the width was fixed at nine feet as a part of the conditions for bonding, there seemed only one way left to apply the economics--that was, in the depth of the roads.

  24. Apply cold water dressings as long as they give comfort, and afterwards apply hot fomentations.

  25. If there is a wound, cleanse it and apply antiseptic dressing before putting limb in splints.

  26. Sprinkle face and chest with cold water and apply smelling salts to nose.

  27. Here those who want them may apply For toiling powers and industry, On whom the nervous strength's bestow'd To urge the wheel or bear the load.

  28. Experience has convinced me that if anyone ruptured will apply a Cluthe Truss according to the directions it means positive relief, and the only hope for a cure.

  29. But the poor woman had nothing very hopeful to say, and could only tell Fan of another registry-office in Notting Hill High Street, and advise her to apply there.

  30. You may well ask," Napoleon rejoined, "by what right he should apply to you for concealment.

  31. Wyllie took advantage of this absolute surrender, to apply twenty leeches to the head of the emperor, but the application was too late, the burning fever continually increased, and the sufferer was given over.

  32. Apply the golden rule--the only one that can give the measure of things.

  33. Svatoi Noss, in the Russian language, signifies Sacred Promontory; and the Russians occasionally apply it to any cape which it is difficult to double.

  34. Whenever they are wounded in any encounter, or bruised by any accident, they apply a sort of yellow root to the wound, and fast for some time.

  35. To apply heat to, in conjunction with mechanical pressure, for the purpose of giving a smooth and glossy surface, or to express oil, etc.

  36. To apply a warm lotion to; to bathe with a cloth or sponge wet with warm water or medicated liquid.

  37. To addict, resign, or apply (one's self).

  38. To apply to other genera or classes; to use with a more extensive application; to extend so as to include all special cases; to make universal in application, as a formula or rule.

  39. To apply thinly a transparent or semitransparent color to (another color), to modify the effect.

  40. To apply one's self; to set one's self; to undertake.

  41. To apply smoke to; to expose to smoke or vapor; to purify, or free from infection, by the use of smoke or vapors.

  42. The second of these spiritual standards which apply to the possessor of knowledge is that he should be the defender of his faith.

  43. We should not condemn theoretical science because we are not able, even with fair and persevering trial, to apply it to any useful purpose, but wait patiently until circumstances ripen for its application.

  44. It would also be less to public advantage if investigators were to neglect discovering new knowledge in order to apply that knowledge to practical uses.

  45. Inventors, manufacturers, medical men, and others, also begin to apply them to their respective purposes.

  46. Most of the remarks already made respecting the appointment and maintenance of professors of research in State laboratories, would apply equally to those proposed in connection with the Universities.

  47. The great practical value of new scientific knowledge is proved by the fact, that when scientific discoveries are published, there are numerous inventors and practical men, who immediately endeavour to apply them to useful purposes.

  48. Let the cause of these desertions have been what it might, it ought to have been clear to him that he could apply no remedy to it now.

  49. It was only the other day you had £200,' said Melmotte, showing that he could apply his memory to small transactions when he pleased.

  50. But Mr Grendall pledged his honour that when they broke up the party he would apply any money that he might have won to the redemption of his I.

  51. Such cases however apply to a later period in the Christian History than that to which he refers.

  52. I deeply grieve to say that in declining to entertain my last application to myself, I presumed to address myself in terms which render it impossible for me ever to apply to myself again.

  53. Her soul is sweet as the ocean air, For prudery knows no haven there; To find mock-modesty, please apply To the conscious blush and the downcast eye.

  54. And have you the heart to apply the prosaic rules of evidence to a case which bubbles over with poetical emotion?

  55. Let's apply the tests of the laying on of hands and feet.

  56. The Confederate States of America is going to apply for your release.

  57. Frank found, to his surprise, that the cripple boy had a wonderful knack of grasping the sense of passages, but that never having been regularly taught to construe, he was unable to apply the rules of grammar which he had learned.

  58. Litter will at once apply for a warrant for his apprehension on the charge of theft, and that the whole matter will then be gone into in a Police Court.

  59. Dismissing then the earlier stages of beetles, the following observations will apply only to the imago, or "beetle proper.


  60. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "apply" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    addict; address; administer; ally; appeal; apply; ascribe; assign; associate; attach; attribute; bear; bend; bestow; bind; bracket; clap; connect; convert; correlate; couple; dedicate; devote; direct; dispense; dose; employ; endeavor; enforce; engross; equate; exercise; exert; exploit; fasten; force; give; handle; hold; identify; impute; inflict; link; obtain; paint; parallel; pertain; place; prescribe; put; refer; relate; repair; solicit; spread; stand; take; throw; tie; touch; turn; use; utilize; wed


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    apply himself; apply myself; apply the; apply them; apply themselves