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Example sentences for "improve"

Lexicographically close words:
improperly; impropriation; improprieties; impropriety; improvable; improved; improvement; improvements; improver; improvers
  1. Hevelius, Hugenius, and some in England, endeavour to improve Optick Glasses, 6.

  2. And, year following year, the pressure was, and still is, to improve and refine and make better, with an increasing reduction in price.

  3. No business can improve unless it pays the closest possible attention to complaints and suggestions.

  4. Our policy is to reduce the price, extend the operations, and improve the article.

  5. Management has found it easier to hire an additional five hundred men than to so improve its methods that one hundred men of the old force could be released to other work.

  6. Wouldn't a little groom up behind improve the appearance of my turnout?

  7. Feeling that he could not improve that last compliment, Bab was fully satisfied, and let him leave the prize upon her breast, conscious that she had some claim to it.

  8. The "magic of property" has made them industrious, saving and ever vigilant to increase and improve the crops.

  9. They have not failed to improve this opportunity.

  10. The desire of Agnes Tauke to improve matters was accepted as genuine and she was not called upon to resign.

  11. Helen was to improve her violin playing and give lessons.

  12. But the fine clothes has made another man of pop; and I expect they'll improve yours truly a whole lot.

  13. We made several experiments in cooking the cocoa-nut, most of which did not improve it.

  14. On the top of its head, to the right and left, two graceful plumes come forth, which vastly improve its looks, and contribute in no small degree to the impressiveness of its demeanour.

  15. I still worked in the settlement and made a living, but had no chance to improve my land.

  16. They decided to use them for pack animals to carry their blankets, and to proceed slowly toward the mines, killing game, if possible, and permitting their animals to graze and improve in condition as they moved.

  17. They thought it would be wise to keep their oxen for these would now improve in flesh, and as they had no money with which to buy food they might still rely on them in further travels.

  18. He was a very clever man, about 35 years old, was not a Mormon, but had taken the women in order to become popular with the Indians and to improve his opportunities for trade.

  19. He will do well to make a fire, and roast the acorns, which will improve their nutty flavour, and make them more digestible.

  20. Nurserymen in Europe and Japan have for centuries worked with the wild species to improve them.

  21. Much effort and ingenuity was expanded, especially in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, to improve the techniques of bloodletting.

  22. While allowing German surgeons some credit for attempting to improve the spring lancet, Ristelhueber remained firm in his view that the spring lancet was too complicated and performed no better than the thumb lancet.

  23. There was little change in the mechanism of the spring lancet during the nineteenth century, despite the efforts of inventors to improve it.

  24. Nineteenth Century Attempts to Improve Cupping Technology The story of nineteenth-century attempts to improve cupping technology is an interesting one, in that a great deal of effort was expended on comparatively short-lived results.

  25. Those who went a step further in their efforts to improve cupping procedure attempted to combine cup, lancet, and exhausting apparatus all in one instrument.

  26. We see, therefore, immediately, that if anything is to be done at all to improve Irish transport it must be done by a Government that has the confidence of the money market.

  27. With regard, for instance, to the increase in the number of tourists visiting Ireland, both private persons and local bodies desire to extend existing inducements and to improve the means of transit and to raise the standard of accommodation.

  28. But in our efforts to improve material conditions and to remove grievances, how small is the encouragement or help that we have received from leaders of the Nationalist Party!

  29. Looked at in its broader and more enduring aspects, co-operation is bound to stimulate and improve general trade by increasing the spending power of the farmers.

  30. The graining may be done with or without stippling, but if the stippling is well done it will improve it.

  31. Major Lee's artillery, which had been able to improve its position during the night, thanks to the resolute work of Lieut.

  32. Much was done to improve the ration by General Ironside who accepted with sympathy the suggestions of Major Nichols.

  33. Every effort was made to improve the shell-proof dugouts.

  34. But, if the child be under ten, or even twelve, years of age, their removal may yet do much permanently to improve the condition, and is certainly well worth while on general principles.

  35. All we have to do is to take nature's hint of the anti-bodies and improve upon it.

  36. Yuri, like his father, was a man of great energy and did much to strengthen and improve the towns within his territory.

  37. This did not improve the general appearance.

  38. Mr. Hare thought that the effect of doing away with organization would be to improve leadership.

  39. Bad as these members would be if they were left to themselves--if in a free Parliament they were confronted with the perils of government, close responsibility might improve them, and make them tolerable.

  40. Therefore, he may actually improve his position by gaining more supporters than he loses.

  41. The true remedy is, therefore, to improve organization, not to restrict the suffrage.

  42. It would not be hard to show that the same Aryan appreciation of roast beef has served in the West to develop and improve cattle breeding, but you will not easily persuade the modern Hindu of this fact.

  43. Both rebel and Union men who claimed protection by the Federal authorities began to repair and improve their farms again.

  44. It is a small irregularly formed place, and its ducal habitations, whatever they may be internally, by no means improve its appearance.

  45. Savages now sometimes cross their dogs with wild canine animals, to improve the breed, and they formerly did so, as is attested by passages in Pliny.

  46. The head to contrive, God must to a certain degree have given you; but it is in your own power greatly to improve it, by study, observation, and reflection.

  47. As you will meet swarms of Germans wherever you go, I desire that you will constantly converse with them in their own language, which will improve you in that language, and be, at the same time, an agreeable piece of civility to them.

  48. When country people go far from home, they often meet with those they know, and improve their acquaintance.


  49. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "improve" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accommodate; adapt; adjust; advance; alter; ameliorate; amend; apprentice; benefit; better; boost; break; breed; change; checker; chop; civilize; clear; compensate; complete; condition; convert; correct; crown; culminate; cultivate; deform; degenerate; deteriorate; develop; deviate; dignify; discipline; diverge; diversify; drill; ease; edify; educate; elevate; embellish; emend; enhance; enlighten; enrich; exercise; exploit; fatten; favor; fit; flop; form; forward; gain; graduate; groom; heal; heighten; help; illuminate; improve; increase; irradiate; jibe; lard; lift; look; mature; maximize; meliorate; mend; mitigate; modify; modulate; nurse; nurture; overthrow; perfect; pick; practice; prepare; profit; progress; promote; pull; qualify; raise; rally; ready; rear; rebuild; reconstruct; recover; recruit; rectify; recuperate; refine; reform; rehearse; remake; remedy; renew; reshape; restore; restructure; retouch; revise; revive; ripen; shape; shift; socialize; step; subvert; swerve; tack; train; transfigure; transform; turn; upgrade; uplift; vary; veer; warp; modify; modulate; nurse; nurture; overthrow; perfect; pick; practice; prepare; profit; progress; promote; pull; qualify; raise; rally; ready; rear; rebuild; reconstruct; recover; recruit; rectify; recuperate; refine; reform; rehearse; remake; remedy; renew; reshape; restore; restructure; retouch; revise; revive; ripen; shape; shift; socialize; step; subvert; swerve; tack; train; transfigure; transform; turn; upgrade; uplift; vary; veer; warp; worsen


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    improve the; improve their; improved earth; improved methods