Creates
[kriː'eɪts] or [krɪ'ets]
Examples
- The will never creates new sentiments. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- It cannot promote health nor ease pain; it makes no increase of merit in the person; it creates envy; it hastens misfortune. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The intermingling in the school of youth of different races, differing religions, and unlike customs creates for all a new and broader environment. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Idealism creates an abstraction and then shudders at a reality which does not answer to it. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- But then I suppose you will say that what he creates is untrue. Plato. The Republic.
- This is often caused by an unconscious nervous action produced by the impression the occurrence creates on the brain. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- If a pebble is thrown into a quiet pool, it creates ripples or waves which spread outward in all directions, but which soon die out, leaving the pool again placid and undisturbed. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Although it cannot now be classed as a novelty, yet it still creates a great sensation whenever and wherever it is exhibited. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- It IS the pretty face which creates sympathy in the hearts of men, those wicked rogues. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Undue humility makes tyranny; weak concession creates selfishness. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- And yet there is a sense in which the painter also creates a bed? Plato. The Republic.
- A promise creates a new obligation. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- At the thicker end, a sawing-out process creates an opening, so that the butt and shaft can dovetail to a depth of seven inches. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- This want, then, creates a class of retail-traders in our State. Plato. The Republic.
- It puts a premium on certain things and slurs over others, and creates a mind whose seeming unity is forced and distorted. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- And this is because injustice creates divisions and hatreds and fighting, and justice imparts harmony and friendship; is not that true, Thrasymachus? Plato. The Republic.
Edited by Lester