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Example sentences for "augment"

Lexicographically close words:
augers; aught; aughty; augite; augitic; augmentation; augmentations; augmentative; augmente; augmented
  1. To augment our misery we receive news of the Octanaks, who weare about a hundred and fifty, with their families.

  2. Att last we perceived that he was before us, which putt us in some feare; but seeing us resolut, did what he could to augment his number.

  3. We passe our boats to augment our victory, seeing that they weare many in number.

  4. No; the merit of The Traveller is so well established, that Mr. Fox's praise cannot augment it, nor his censure diminish it.

  5. Socialism will simply be the scientific development of those natural tendencies which augment the happiness or improve the comfort of the people.

  6. Brother, content yourself, words but augment our strife; I will perform, or else my pawn's my life.

  7. Charity giveth to those who are in delirium the medicaments which may avail their health, but refuses those enticing cates and liquors which please the palate, but augment the disease.

  8. He had created his Gallic policy to augment the revenues of the Empire; the consequences of this fiscal policy, necessity-inspired, were greater than he and his friends ever dreamed.

  9. The men are few who can indefinitely augment their particular wants, or keep changing their habits throughout their lives, even after the disappearance of vigour and virile elasticity.

  10. That commencing as small aggregations, they insensibly augment in mass: some of them eventually reaching ten thousand times what they originally were.

  11. Lastly, the psychic activity may be initial and productive of changes in the organism, or, if these already exist, may augment and prolong them.

  12. We know that one of the best conditions for inventing is abundance of material, accumulated experience, knowledge--which augment the chances of original association of ideas.

  13. It is in this way that states will augment their susceptible prosperity.

  14. All tense designations are placed at the end of the word, except the augment for past time.

  15. Bopp's suggestion that the Sanscrit augment was originally a privative finds support in this analogy.

  16. In the Mexican there are the terminals ya or a in the imperfect, the augment o in the preterit, and others in the future.

  17. If by augment we mean a vowel sound prefixed to the verb in certain tenses in addition to their usual signs, then the Mexican is the only American language which possesses one.

  18. May heaven, great monarch, still augment your bliss With length of days, and every day like this!

  19. This would indeed augment the amount of limestone in the box, but it would be at the expense of the contained space.

  20. Each petal carries on its edges a row of very slender transparent filaments, arranged like the teeth of a comb, which also arch downward, and greatly augment the beauty of the flower-like polyp.

  21. Doubtless, this structure is intended to augment the sensitive powers of these curious organs, which are understood to be the tentacles.

  22. These spines are black with grey points, and greatly augment the noble aspect of the creature.

  23. Wherever the poor direct public affairs, and dispose of the national resources, it appears certain, that as they profit by the expenditure of the State, they are apt to augment that expenditure.

  24. Places are reserved for their reception, to augment the beauty of the front, and shew the taste of the age.

  25. Will charity chalk up one additional score in our favour, because we grant a small portion of our land to found a church, which enables us to augment the remainder treble its value, by granting building leases?

  26. Will it augment the value of this history, or cover its blunders, to say, that I have never seen Oxford?

  27. Take then the honour of Comes Privatarum: it also is a courtly dignity, and you will augment it by your worthy fulfilment of its functions.

  28. Augment therefore my renown by your patience, and let me hear praises rather than complaints of the actions of my servants.

  29. Such fools are they who perpetually cry out liberty, [and think to] augment it by shaking off the monarchy.

  30. Your book also teaches how the best of things are liable to abuse; and the reflections which are made on this subject ought to augment our caution and distrust of ourselves.

  31. I do not like the talking man more than you do; and a flattering letter I have since received from him, does not augment my good opinion.

  32. The Saguntines understood from the first moment that the besiegers had taken advantage of the cessation of hostilities to augment their offensive power.

  33. The Greek smiled, reflecting that the feast was destined to augment his mistress' wealth.

  34. The same unknown power has also given man and woman reason, by the exercise of which they can augment their pleasure, and reduce their pain.

  35. It therefore appears certain that the body of an animal or vegetable is an internal mould of a constant form, but where their masses may augment proportionably, by the extension of this mould in all its external and internal dimensions.

  36. The philosophy which appears to me would be the least deficient, is that where general effects are only made use of for causes, and seeking to augment the number of them, by endeavouring to generalize particular effects.

  37. And here it is remarkable that the pleasure, which arises from a moderate facility, has not the same tendency with that which arises from novelty, to augment the painful, as well as the agreeable affections.

  38. Contiguity and resemblance have an effect much inferior to causation; but still have some effect, and augment the conviction of any opinion, and the vivacity of any conception.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "augment" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accession; accessory; accompaniment; add; addendum; addition; additive; adjuvant; aggrandize; aggravate; ample; amplify; annex; annexation; annoy; appanage; appendage; appurtenance; attachment; aught; augment; bloat; boost; broaden; build; bulk; coda; complement; compound; concomitant; continuation; contribute; corollary; crescendo; deepen; deteriorate; develop; dilate; distend; double; embitter; enhance; enlarge; exalt; expand; extend; extension; extrapolation; fatten; fixture; flourish; follow; fortify; heighten; hike; huff; increase; increment; inflame; inflate; intensify; irritate; lengthen; magnify; manifest; maximize; mount; multiply; offshoot; parlay; pendant; plus; provoke; puff; pump; push; pyramid; raise; rarefy; recruit; reinforce; reinforcement; sharpen; snowball; sour; strengthen; stretch; supplement; swell; thicken; upsurge; wax; widen; worsen