Comprise

Examples

• The productions of the General Electric Company alone average annual sales of nearly $75,000,000, but they do not comprise the total of the country's manufactures in these lines. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• These observations comprise the whole of the case. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• To facilitate the inter-departmental transportation of materials in the factory, there is an overhead monorail system, comprising over 1-1/2 miles of I-beam track. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• When the atoms comprising a molecule are all alike, the substance is called an element, and is said to be a simple substance. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• A harrow comprising two ranks of oppositely curved trailing teeth is especially popular in some countries. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• A piano comprises five principal parts: first, the framing; second, the sounding board; third, the stringing; fourth, the key mechanism, or action, and fifth, the ornamental case. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The simplest form and most effective sweeper comprises a large cylinder armed with spiral rows of splints and hung diagonally on the under side and across a frame having two or four wheels. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It comprises a great array of annunciator drops, spring jacks with plug seats, and connecting cords with metal plugs at their opposite ends. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• It comprises a power car and ten other cars, each of a five-ton capacity, which trail along behind. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Glenn’s wheat farm comprises 45,000 acres; the Dalrymples’, in North Dakota, 70,000; and Mr. Mitchell, in the San Joaquin Valley, in California, has 90,000 acres. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The word politics, sir,' said Mr. Pickwick, 'comprises in itself, a difficult study of no inconsiderable magnitude. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• What it Comprises in the Art of Spinning and Weaving. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Three months comprised thirteen weeks. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• The station at Berlin comprised five boilers, and six vertical steam-engines driving by belts twelve Edison dynamos, each of about fifty-five horse-power capacity. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The competitive lamps exhibited and tested at this time comprised those of Edison, Maxim, Swan, and Lane-Fox. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In her own single person, she could have comprised the duties of a first minister and a superintendent of police. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• It comprised The Great Consummation, by Rev. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Mansfield, Sotherton, Thornton Lacey, he continued; what a society will be comprised in those houses! Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• The nice shades of nationality comprised in the above list, and the languages spoken by them, are altogether too numerous to mention. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.

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