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Example sentences for "increase"

Lexicographically close words:
incountred; incourage; incouraged; incouragement; incrassated; increased; increases; increaseth; increasing; increasingly
  1. Vast combinations depress the price of labor and increase the cost of the necessaries of existence.

  2. I must increase my fortune to half a million.

  3. Hence the decrease in wages; the increase in the power of wealth; the luxury of the few; the misery of the many.

  4. Fortunately for us, they are not yet fully aware of their own power, and are content to merely demand an increase of pay.

  5. Quincy, on behalf of his men, demands another increase of pay.

  6. Pure spirits, whom no fault of their own had caused to be invested with bodies, namely, the prophets, were sent to men by the Logos in order to support the struggling and to increase knowledge.

  7. A worldly king can increase his benefits to his subjects; and should it not also be lawful for God, though he is always the same, to honour continually with greater gifts those who are well pleasing to him?

  8. A sluggish concentration in themselves makes them so careful to preserve their property, that they will not venture on any enterprise to increase it in which there is a shadow of hazard.

  9. Page Heading: Forgeries] We turn now from attempts to increase Shakespeare's writings to an extraordinary effort to deny him the authorship of all his plays.

  10. But the United States is only one country, and perhaps her increase in foreign trade has been due to conditions past or passing.

  11. But the same factors increase the power of governments and the solidarity of nations.

  12. Such bodies of officers have been developed in navies in recent years, by a desire to take advantage of electrical appliances which greatly increase the accuracy and rapidity of communication over long distances.

  13. It means, throughout all the world, an increase of what we call "Wealth.

  14. Of course, commercial interests are often opposed to national interests, and improvements in speed and sureness of communication and transportation increase the size and power of commercial organizations.

  15. The further we advanced the worse the country became, and the greater the increase in temperature.

  16. The rapid increase displayed in these figures is the outcome, undoubtedly, of the gold discovery.

  17. As a result, during the past few years, humanities scholars have initiated a number of projects to increase scholarly access to converted text.

  18. I have been observed taking the Manners' infants in and out, and the result has been a simultaneous increase of interest, and--loss of prestige.

  19. We are now formally and definitely "received," and the first result has been a violent increase of intimacy on the part of the Vicar's wife.

  20. She danced for him, sang for him, talked to him, and every day seemed to increase the spell which her vivacity cast over his slow spirit.

  21. For I pass over the increase of circulating medium ascribed to it as a merit, and which, according to my ideas of paper money, is clearly a demerit.

  22. With respect to the increase of the debt by the Assumption, I observed to him, that what was meant and objected to was, that it increased the debt of the General Government, and carried it beyond the possibility of payment.

  23. By the numerous applications for bank charters, showing that an increase of circulating medium is wanting.

  24. But farther than this we are not bound to go; and indeed, for the sake of the world, we ought not to increase the jealousies, or draw on ourselves the power, of this formidable confederacy.

  25. All the efforts of the society, therefore, were directed to the increase of learning, and the inducements of respect, ease, and profit were held up for its encouragement.

  26. Let us examine these causes and proofs of the want of an increase of medium, one by one.

  27. Each rejection by the last publisher only served to increase his faith in what he had written.

  28. When he did look at him, he saw him sitting up on the couch, his hands clasped over his knees, a slight increase of colour on his face but no mark of any unusual anger or feeling.

  29. The next improvement was an attempt to increase the durability of the wagons by making the wheels of iron.

  30. This achievement was regarded as a great triumph, and in 1832 the directors of the road called attention to "the great increase in velocity" that had been obtained in this way.

  31. Possibly the railroads might have risen to the occasion except for the fact that the enormous increase in the cost of labor and supplies made demands upon their treasuries which they could not meet.

  32. What they asked for was a full day's pay for eight hours and "time and a half" pay for all in excess of that amount; that is, they demanded an increase in wages.

  33. They repeatedly asked the Interstate Commerce Commission for an increase in rates, but this request was repeatedly refused.

  34. Let cake rise to top of pan, then increase heat and bake until firm.

  35. Bake in moderate oven at first, then increase the heat; bake slowly.

  36. We can always dispose of the increase in our rabbit family to friends or to dealers.

  37. All the plates and supplies increase in proportion to the size of our instrument.

  38. They will practically take care of themselves and after a few years greatly increase in numbers.

  39. These additions are all to increase the output of guns.

  40. By the growth of ammunition we may guess what has been the increase in guns, especially in those heavy guns we are now pushing forward after the retreating Germans, as fast as roads and railway lines can be made to carry them.

  41. The employment of striking and brilliant colors will enhance the charm and increase the artistic effect.

  42. Furthermore, they increase also in variety as the child acquires skill in manipulation.

  43. This alarm was greatly calculated to increase the fears of those below, who, from the immense torrent of water that was rushing down the hatchways, had reason to believe the truth of his assertion.

  44. It is therefore not apt to scale off and it does not increase the size of the article.

  45. It is possible to increase the yield of glycerin if desired by varying the form of fermentation.

  46. However, he did not strike to reduce his hours or increase his wages.

  47. On the contrary, he increased his working time and used it to increase his income.

  48. When the call came for more rubber for the electrical and automobile industries the first attempt to increase the supply was to put pressure upon the natives to bring in more of the latex.

  49. It would be well to divert some of the energetic efforts now devoted to the increase of commerce to the discovery of ways of reducing the need for commerce by the development of home products.

  50. Only in this way can our population increase and prosper.

  51. It is possible to increase the inflammability of alcohol by mixing with it some hydrocarbon such as gasoline, benzene or acetylene.

  52. The rapid increase in land values has made it correspondingly more difficult for the man of small means to acquire a foothold on the land.

  53. They were tantalized by the presence of numerous foxes and flocks of game birds, but they did not dare to fire at them, fearing that the concussion from the firing would increase the number of the falling rocks.

  54. Now all was activity and bustle, since this phase of useful effort had come to increase their chance of life.

  55. Welcome as was this increase of rank to Woon, it stood second in his mind to a sense of the high honor and deeper regard with which he was ever after held by the men of the ship.

  56. How far knowledge and ignorance may aggravate or excuse, increase or diminish the goodness or evil of our actions?

  57. Thus much I am bold to request of your honour for Corpus Christi College sake, or rather for Christ's sake; whom I beseech to bless you with daily increase of his manifold gifts, and the blessed graces of his Holy Spirit.

  58. Does it make any difference in the permanence of an increase of wages brought about by a strike, whether the employer is one of the more successful or one of the less successful in that business?

  59. Would your answer depend at all upon the condition of our currency at the time the increase occurred?

  60. The increase in price benefits England because the money remains within the country, instead of going abroad to increase the wealth of foreign nations.

  61. Give examples of things that increase the demand for money.

  62. Suppose an increase in the volume of our currency, due to a new issue of silver, what would be the effect upon international trade?

  63. If there is an increase in earnings, how will the price of each of the three kinds of securities of the corporation be affected?

  64. Might not the railroad increase its net revenue by raising the rate on through traffic to one-half cent per ton mile and lowering the local rate to three-fourths of a cent per ton mile?

  65. Do trade unions increase or decrease the number of strikes?

  66. The profitable sciences were no lesse meete to be imported to the greater number of ciuill men for instruction of the people and increase of knowledge, then to be reserued and kept for clerkes and great men onely.

  67. Machines increase and embellish poetical fiction and maintain among the spectators that gentle illusion in which the entire pleasure of a theatre consists, to which it also adds a feeling of wonder.

  68. A man who knows how to make good bargains or finds his money increase in his coffers, thinks presently that he has a good deal of brains and is almost fit to be a statesman.


  69. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "increase" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    access; accession; accessory; accompaniment; accrue; accumulate; accumulation; add; addendum; addition; additive; adjunct; adjuvant; advance; agglutination; aggrandize; aggravate; ample; amplification; amplify; annex; annexation; annoy; annoyance; appanage; appendage; apportion; appreciate; appreciation; appurtenance; ascent; attachment; augment; augmentation; balloon; ballooning; bloat; blossom; blow; boom; boost; breakthrough; breed; brew; broaden; build; buildup; bulk; calibrate; climb; climbing; coda; complement; compound; concomitant; continuation; corollary; count; crescendo; decrease; deepen; deepening; deployment; deteriorate; deterioration; develop; development; differentiate; dilate; dispersion; distend; divide; double; edema; elevation; embitter; enhance; enhancement; enlarge; enlargement; exacerbation; exalt; exasperation; expand; expansion; explosion; extend; extension; extrapolation; fatten; fill; fix; fixture; flare; flood; flourish; fortify; fountain; freshen; gain; gains; gather; germinate; grade; graduate; grow; growth; gush; gust; heighten; heightening; hike; hiking; huff; hypertrophy; improve; improvement; increase; increment; inflame; inflate; inflation; influx; intensification; intensify; irritate; irritation; jet; joining; jump; junction; juxtaposition; leap; lengthen; levitation; magnification; magnify; mark; mature; maximize; measure; mount; mounting; movement; multiple; multiplication; multiply; multiplying; mushroom; number; offshoot; outgrow; overgrow; parcel; parlay; pendant; pick; procreate; productiveness; progress; proliferation; propagate; provoke; puff; pump; pyramid; raise; raising; rarefy; rate; recovery; recruit; reduce; reinforce; reinforcement; reproduce; revival; rise; rising; scale; screw; sharpen; snowball; soar; soaring; sour; souring; splay; spout; spread; spring; sprout; spurt; step; stimulate; strengthen; stretch; supplement; supplementation; surge; swell; swelling; takeoff; thicken; thrive; tower; tumescence; uniting; upgrade; uphill; uplift; uprise; uprising; upsurge; upturn; vault; vegetate; wax; widen; widening; winnings; worsen; worsening


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    increase from; increase over; increase the; increase their; increased action; increased amount; increased flow; increased number; increased production; increased quantity; increased secretion