Commits
[kə'mits]
Examples
- But then, when the man commits burglary in order to break images which are not his own, that brings it away from the doctor and on to the policeman. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I think that Dorothea commits a wrong action in marrying Ladislaw. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- There ain't a magistrate goin' as don't commit himself twice as he commits other people. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- If he abuses my confidence, he commits a dishonourable action, Mr. Copperfield. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Every medical man commits that act of treachery, Mr. Blake, in the course of his practice. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
Typist: Shane