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Example sentences for "intensify"

Lexicographically close words:
intensest; intensification; intensified; intensifier; intensifies; intensifying; intension; intensities; intensity; intensive
  1. It was now pitch dark outside, and the brilliant illuminations in the interior of the house only served to intensify the almost opaque blackness of the grounds.

  2. The distant howling of wolves and the occasional scream of an eagle only served to intensify the universal stillness.

  3. The most important physiological effect of consanguineous marriage is to intensify any or all inheritable family characteristics or peculiarities by double inheritance.

  4. Consanguinity, then, seems appreciably to intensify scrofula, but there is no indication that scrofula is ever caused by parental consanguinity.

  5. The plate has been removed from the developer too soon, and the remedy is to intensify the image (see p.

  6. This will clear the whites and intensify the colour generally.

  7. When the negative is obtainable and printable it is very much better, and altogether more satisfactory to make a fresh print than to attempt to intensify or reduce an unsatisfactory one.

  8. To establish over all these diverse social conditions the rigid principles of the English common law, which prevail largely in our jurisprudence, will perpetuate and intensify the tyranny of husband over wife, of father over offspring.

  9. An interchange of opinions on the great questions now agitating the world will rouse women to new thought, will intensify their love of liberty and will give them a realizing sense of the power of combination.

  10. One thing is at any rate clear: to preserve life is to increase the population, and therefore to increase the competition; or, in other words, to intensify the struggle for existence.

  11. Such little possibilities intensify the earnest detestation we feel for the treasons we come to resist and to punish.

  12. What else can we do but bow our heads in thanksgiving and reverence, steel our hearts in preparation for the strenuous days ahead, and intensify a hundredfold our resolution to carry on the task to which our hands are set at present.

  13. I appeal to National Teaching, Regional and Inter-America Committees to intensify efforts for multiplication of groups and Assemblies the length and breadth of the western hemisphere.

  14. Not once did the music halt, not once did the intelligent leader fail to intensify the climax of the stage.

  15. She had evidently been weeping, and the dark dress in which she had arrayed herself seemed to intensify the look of anguish on her face.

  16. Under the agreeable but sobering influence of this faith she had grown to womanhood, and the heroic deeds of the civil war had served to intensify a belief, the truth of which she had never heard questioned.

  17. A night's sleep served to intensify Selma's determination, and she awoke clearly of the opinion that a divorce was desirable.

  18. He must arrange his finances so as not to intensify panics, but to mitigate them.

  19. The news of this will spread in an instant through all the money market at a moment of terror; no one can say exactly who carries it, but in half an hour it will be carried on all sides, and will intensify the terror everywhere.

  20. By that policy they allay a panic; by every other policy they intensify it.

  21. The want of a good organisation may cause the failure of one or more of these banks; and such failure of such banks may intensify a panic, even if it should not cause one.

  22. The diminished use of the Clearing-house, in consequence of the panic, would intensify that panic.

  23. He was a veritable poet in sound, and he sought in every possible way to intensify characteristic expression.

  24. Here the orchestration is admirably adapted to depict and intensify the scenes and situations.

  25. He neglected no opportunity to make use of the qualities of his orchestral instruments--as far as in him lay--to enforce and accentuate the situations, and even to intensify the passing moment of feeling implied by the dialogue.

  26. You thought I was a quack," he said maliciously, and maliciously he seemed to intensify his foreign accent.

  27. And simultaneously, to intensify his unease, the notion that profiteering was profiteering, whether in war or in peace, and the notion that F.

  28. Some persons vary the form, and slightly intensify the expression by placing the word 'yours' last, as 'Faithfully yours.

  29. The very appearance of this book is decidedly unattractive, and we fear that much of its contents cannot fail to intensify one's first impressions.

  30. I then advised the Congress of my purpose to intensify our efforts to replace force with a rule of law among nations.

  31. While maintaining our military deterrent, we must intensify our efforts to achieve a just peace.

  32. Although discrimination continued and even seemed to intensify at times, it no longer carried with it the force of law.

  33. Actually, with the heightened competition for jobs, unions tended to intensify their discrimination.

  34. Men will unify only to intensify the search for knowledge and power, and live as ever for new occasions.

  35. They wanted to intensify and universalize property.

  36. With every development of speech it became possible to intensify and develop the tradition of tabus and restraints and ceremonies.

  37. And a stage of greater elevation and depression would intensify its extreme conditions by the gradual accumulation of ice caps upon the polar regions and upon the more elevated mountain masses.

  38. His agents did much to intensify the popular suspicion of the king.

  39. In view of this fact, we should endeavor always to so surround him that his environments may not augment the morbid change in him and intensify his perverted, delusioned character.

  40. You can also intensify his interest in the subject, and at the same time increase his knowledge of drawing, by having him make skeleton or outline drawings of the trees about the schoolhouse or the home.

  41. It may be worth while to produce a "new variety" of potato by raising new plants from the seed-bolls; but it is much more to the point to augment the mealiness of some existing variety or to intensify its blight-resisting qualities.

  42. On the contrary, they served rather to call forth and intensify her kindly sympathies.

  43. Whatever view may be taken of the origin and nature of such trials, it is certain that physical depression and the mental strain that comes of anxious, care-worn thoughts, if not their source, yet tend always greatly to intensify them.

  44. To intensify their effect, the designs were filled in with a black pigment known as Niello, L.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "intensify" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accelerate; accrue; accumulate; adorn; advance; aggravate; amplify; annoy; appreciate; augment; balloon; bloat; boom; breed; broaden; build; complicate; compound; concentrate; condense; consolidate; crescendo; deepen; deteriorate; develop; double; embitter; enhance; enlarge; exaggerate; exalt; fire; gain; gather; grow; harden; heat; heighten; increase; inflame; intensify; irritate; magnify; mount; multiply; praise; provoke; pump; ramify; redouble; reinforce; ripen; rise; sharpen; snowball; sour; spread; step; strengthen; swell; triple; wax; whet; widen; worsen