Increases

Examples

• This foresight increases still further his natural disposition to save. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It increases as fast as the means of the consumers increase for procuring it. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• With the growth of civilization, the gap between the original capacities of the immature and the standards and customs of the elders increases. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• We learned in Section 287 that the strength of a current increases when the electromotive force increases, and diminishes when the electromotive force diminishes. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The quantity of money, on the contrary, must in every country naturally increase as the value of the annual produce increases. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Their consumption must increase as their mass increases, or rather in a much greater proportion. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It shows, besides, that you are mindful of what you owe; it makes you appear a careful as well as an honest man, and that still increases your credit. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• I hear a nightingale warbling in a wood half a mile off; no moving form is visible, no coming step audible; but that perfume increases: I must flee. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• They are more used, and less cared for, and their consumption consequently increases in a greater proportion than their mass. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• But we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• This heating or vulcanizing process fixes the elasticity of the rubber, increases its strength enormously and unites the parts in such a way as to make the shoe practically one piece. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Ages have intervened between its several steps; but, as knowledge of late increases rapidly, why should not those steps be quickened? Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• At night, or at any other time when gas lights are required, the need for ventilation increases, because every gas light in a room uses up the same amount of air as four people. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• If a kettle of water is placed above a flame, the temperature of the water gradually increases, and soon small bubbles form at the bottom of the kettle and begin to rise through the water. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Agricola increases the number, and makes four kinds, which Albertus Magnus again reduces to three, viz. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• But even small increases in the amount of moisture in the air have a powerful influence upon the transmission of radiant heat through that air. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Electric Motor Increases Speed. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The deposition of silver and gold on baser metals not only increases the ornamental effect, but prevents oxidation. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• When air is compressed, its pressure increases, and it exerts a greater force against the matter with which it comes in contact. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The water forced into the air chamber by the downward-moving piston compresses the air and increases its pressure. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• His attachment to Rosings certainly increases. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• As the colony increases, the profits of stock gradually diminish. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Every time I reported these increases Mr. Edison would still be disappointed. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• As the distress of the landlord increases, the agriculture of the country must necessarily decline. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• A great stock, though with small profits, generally increases faster than a small stock with great profits. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• If the glass stopper is removed and the air is allowed to reenter the flask, the loudness of the sound immediately increases. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• As societies become more complex in structure and resources, the need of formal or intentional teaching and learning increases. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The rent increases in proportion to the goodness of the pasture. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Through the greater part of Europe, too, the expense of land-carriage increases very much both the real and nominal price of most manufactures. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Air is more dense at the surface of the earth, and becomes continually more rarified as the altitude increases, until it becomes an indefinitely tenuous ether. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.

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