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Example sentences for "contributes"

Lexicographically close words:
contrees; contretemps; contrey; contribute; contributed; contributing; contribution; contributions; contributive; contributor
  1. Each contributes an arranged stake to the pool.

  2. Badalona thus largely contributes to the export trade of Barcelona, and may, in fact, be regarded as its industrial suburb.

  3. The chief of the southern affluents, and that tributary of the Ghazal which contributes the largest volume of water, is the Jur, known in its upper course as the Sue, Swe or Souch.

  4. The Exposition contributes to the solution of the race problem as it affects religion.

  5. Therefore, whether it be acknowledged or not, every development of political liberty in the United States contributes to the advance of Catholicity.

  6. To secure this common good each member contributes a part.

  7. The impersonal factor likewise contributes powerfully to make condemnation easy.

  8. It contributes probably more than any other naturally selected agency to the development of the race in sympathy; it shares with work in the development of responsibility.

  9. The best ordered community is that which gives most scope to its component members to make the best of themselves, while the 'best' in human nature is that which contributes to the harmony and onward movement of society.

  10. Gentleness, as opposed to an irrascible temper, greatly contributes to the tranquillity and happiness of life, by preserving the mind from perturbation, and arming it against the assaults of calumny and malice.

  11. The selections have been made with great care, and under the direct supervision of Mr. Arnold himself, who contributes besides, an introductory poem, which is reproduced in fac simile.

  12. There is also another circumstance that contributes not a little to my conviction of the weakness of ancient times.

  13. It is intellectual culture which contributes most to diversify the features.

  14. At this juncture William Jennings Bryan contributes to the Century an important article on "Individualism versus Socialism," in which he seeks to dispel the fogs which have enveloped the economic situation.

  15. The same line of hieroglyphics, however, contributes to add to my reluctance in admitting Mr. Champollion’s reading of P.

  16. July Contributes paper to symposium,--"Is the popular judgment of politics more just than that of the higher orders?

  17. Mr. Courtney contributes a good account of this measure to the chapter on Finance in Ward's Reign of Queen Victoria, i.

  18. Thus five-sixths at least of the heat (and consequently of the fuel) is wasted, and contributes nothing towards warming the room.

  19. Perhaps it may be this, that great part of the force employed contributes little to the motion.

  20. It prevents the fouling of chimneys; much of the lint and dust that contributes to foul a chimney being, by the low arch, obliged to pass through the flame, where it is consumed.

  21. The first of these glands are the salivary glands of the mouth, which pour out a clear watery fluid upon the food we eat, and which fluid has been found to possess a property which contributes to the digestion of food.

  22. Why do we know that electricity contributes to the formation of ozone?

  23. No force is left out of the universal plan; each contributes its part to the whole.

  24. In the moral striving of man we can but realize that our every victory contributes toward the majestic work of God.

  25. The low educational level of the labor force contributes to a subsistence level of economic activity, high unemployment, and a heavy dependence on foreign grants and technical assistance.

  26. The banking sector, with its "tax haven" status, also contributes substantially to the economy.

  27. The British military presence has been sharply reduced and now contributes about 11% to the local economy.

  28. In fact, this alkali coating represents merely the extreme operation of a process which is going on in all soils, and which contributes much to their fertility.

  29. Thus the Gulf Stream, directly and indirectly, probably contributes more than half the rainfall about the Atlantic basin.

  30. In this way a great deal of animal matter is introduced into the earth, and contributes to its fertility.

  31. At the same time the lower part of the sheet, decaying, contributes a shower of soft peat mud to the floor of the lake.

  32. Where the water is less than a hundred feet in depth, each wave contributes to the movement, which attains its maximum near the shore, where every surge sweeps the water rapidly to and fro.

  33. This Introduction[639] which falls into four divisions, is extremely diffuse, and contributes little that is of more than merely architectonic value.

  34. Stability and firmness of integrity, fidelity and piety in the exercise of authority is another thing that greatly contributes to, and is very essential in, the character of a strong rod.

  35. Now that which conjoins the manifold of sensuous intuition is imagination, a mental act to which understanding contributes unity of intellectual synthesis, and sensibility, manifoldness of apprehension.

  36. It is in this light that it is peculiarly touching, that it is almost religious, since it even contributes to bind closer this first, this powerful tie of humanity.

  37. There is another force which contributes towards this acting and reacting pressure between the arrow and the bow at the loose if the nocking-place of the string be properly fitted to the arrow, but not otherwise.

  38. Findlay (Edinburgh, 1886), who also contributes the paper on De Quincey to the Encyclopædia Britannica.

  39. The heating of the air operates chiefly to produce and maintain a more elevated temperature of the flame; and, in this manner, contributes to the development of a higher illuminating power from the same area of flame.

  40. But there is yet another direction in which the prior heating of the air supply contributes to the development of improved illuminating power.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "contributes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.