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Example sentences for "summarize"

Lexicographically close words:
summarily; summarise; summarised; summarises; summarising; summarized; summarizes; summarizing; summary; summas
  1. It will be necessary briefly to summarize this theory and the arguments by which it is supported and opposed, inasmuch as it is intimately connected with our subject.

  2. Nor is it wholly unprofitable or uninteresting for others, who do not claim to be students, to summarize the habitats of these organisms, and learn how much the circumstances of their immediate surrounding elements influence production.

  3. I will now briefly summarize what is at present known about the game fishes of the Philippines.

  4. We, therefore, undertake to summarize our present attitude and outline our practice as follows: 1.

  5. Let us, therefore, summarize the things which may disturb baby's sleep: 1.

  6. Let me summarize what has been said in this chapter in a compact proposition, and so complete the statement of the First Main Generalization of Socialism.

  7. The preceding chapters merely summarize a literature that has been accessible for years.

  8. One may therefore summarize Lanier by saying that he was poet who used verbal rhythm, as a musician uses harmonious chords, to play upon our better feelings.

  9. One may summarize Whittier in the statement that he is the poet of the home and the hills, and of that freedom without which the home loses its chief joy and the hill its inspiration.

  10. We shall not attempt here to summarize the war between the South and the North or even to list its causes and consequences.

  11. It is difficult to summarize the literature of this age, or to group such antagonistic writers as Swift and Addison, Pope and Burns, Defoe and Johnson, Goldsmith and Fielding, with any fine discrimination.

  12. Again would you summarize your recollection of the purpose and direction of the investigation at this stage, at the time covered by this report.

  13. I wonder if you could just summarize briefly where we are.

  14. Could you now just very briefly and generally summarize the security arrangements at Love Field and your participation in them.

  15. Can you summarize briefly your employment experience after receiving your law degree and before joining the Federal Bureau of Investigation?

  16. Can you summarize for us briefly the security arrangements at Love Field?

  17. This transitional paragraph may summarize the thought of the preceding paragraph in addition to announcing a change of topic; or it may mark the transition to the new topic and set it forth in general terms.

  18. To summarize the preceding paragraphs, the authority we quote, the maxims we state, the facts we adduce become valuable because they appeal to general theories already believed by the reader.

  19. In almost every lesson the pupils may be called upon to summarize some topic after it has been gone over by means of detailed questions.

  20. At convenient intervals during the presentation and at the close, he should be asked to summarize in a connected manner the main points already covered.

  21. To summarize the foregoing: Southern nationalization evolved the southern union, and American nationalization evolved the American union.

  22. Some of the resources which this urban section of the upper class have enjoyed for a while they are losing, as I shall tell when I hereinafter summarize the details of white encroachment.

  23. We may summarize the life-cycle thus-- 1.

  24. It is impossible to summarize in a sentence the form-characteristics of animals.

  25. We may now very briefly summarize some of the results we have reached in this chapter.

  26. But before doing so, it will be well to recapitulate and summarize the positions we have so far considered.

  27. Let us now summarize what understanding we have gained of taboo through its comparison with the compulsive prohibition of the neurotic.

  28. Let us now summarize the points in which the correspondence between taboo customs and the symptoms of compulsion neurosis are most clearly manifested: 1.

  29. But I will not read them to you; I will summarize them briefly.

  30. This hypothesis was used by Pauling to explain why an elderly chairman of a board could brilliantly summarize a complex 8-hour meeting and yet, after its conclusion and his return to his office, not even remember having attended the meeting.

  31. As is shown by these quotations Booker Washington used these Sunday night talks to crystalize, interpret, and summarize the meaning and significance of the kind of education which Tuskegee gives.

  32. In concluding his annual report each year Mr. Washington would summarize the immediate needs of the institution.

  33. Apparently, they simply read the lesson over without attempting to weigh the relative importance of the several statements and without attempting to skeletonize or summarize the text.

  34. The book of Crabtree, Spinning Tops and the Gyroscope, and the several papers by Gray in the Proceedings of the Physical Society of London, summarize a wealth of material.

  35. Neither is it practicable to summarize the illustration of current fiction.

  36. These few citations, taken with intent from the more sober and reputable journals, summarize the prevailing attitude on one side or the other throughout the months from June to December, 1861.

  37. These conditions have been fully discussed in the United States Geological Survey reports, and are so various that no attempt will be made to summarize them here.

  38. In view of the many references to this application of geology in other parts of this volume, we shall go into the subject in this chapter no further than to summarize some of the larger results.

  39. It is scarcely possible to summarize briefly all of the structural and stratigraphic methods used in locating the ore bodies.

  40. In a few paragraphs let me summarize the history of that past age whose remnants Ts'in Shi Hwangti thus sought to sweep away.

  41. Contains brief Current Notes on Meteorology, which summarize the more important meteorological publications.

  42. Summarize your results according to the weather conditions and the kinds of clouds.

  43. At the end of each month summarize your instrumental observations in the following way:-- Temperature.

  44. Summarize your results by grouping them according to the general weather conditions, and according to the months or seasons in which the observations were made.

  45. Summarize the results of your investigation, paying special attention to the relation between the diurnal variation of relative humidity and the temperature.

  46. A chapter on Central Asia endeavours to summarize our rapidly increasing knowledge of this meeting place of nations.

  47. I have touched on this subject in several places but it may be well to summarize my conclusions here.

  48. It will be convenient to summarize briefly here the history of Bodhidharma's school.

  49. I will not attempt to summarize them, but they include most points of ritual and discipline mentioned below.

  50. We may conveniently summarize what we have said in the foregoing chapters in the following statement: The theory of Descent is almost universally recognized to-day by naturalists as a working hypothesis.

  51. If, then, we were to summarize our strictures on the reasons which Wagner adduces to account for the decay of Darwinism, we would say this: Some of them are unwarranted, others are falsely interpreted.


  52. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "summarize" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abbreviate; abridge; abstract; brief; capsule; clip; compress; condense; contract; crop; curtail; cut; detail; digest; dock; epitomize; fill; foreshorten; inventory; iterate; nip; nutshell; outline; pad; paraphrase; poll; practice; prune; reap; recapitulate; recite; recount; reduce; rehearse; reissue; reiterate; relate; reprint; restate; resume; retail; retell; retrench; review; shave; shear; shorten; sketch; snub; stunt; sum; summarize; telescope; total; trim; truncate