Sentence Examples

1. Having arrived at home safely with these, I devoted every spare moment to their perusal, and soon made such proficiency in studies of this nature as I thought sufficient for the execution of my plan.
2. I knew from the moment I moved into his house that he had an interest in fighting corruption, but in those early months while I was pregnant he devoted a great deal of his time to me and my needs.
3. And so Jonathan was born, the mother backed up by a loyal band of devoted friends and relatives.
4. He too had devoted his life to upholding justice and pursuing the truth, despite the little good it had done him.
5. While I was resolute in my decision to spend the rest of my life devoted to protecting others, I was still working on forgiving myself for ignoring a premonition.
6. Half of each day, they decided as they left City Hall, would be devoted to learning, and the other half to doing.
7. For though his integrity and reputation might bridle slanderous tongues, still he was unwilling to hazard either his own good name or that of his friend and for this reason most of the days agreed upon he devoted to some other business which he pretended was unavoidable so that a great portion of the day was taken up with complaints on one side and excuses on the other.
8. The room was nearly as large as our sleeping quarters, but over half the space was devoted to a wooden pit that was currently full of steaming hot water.
9. Starved for attention, she had lapped up everything he offered her, becoming his devoted puppy.
10. In the same way Amadis was the polestar, day-star, sun of valiant and devoted knights, whom all we who fight under the banner of love and chivalry are bound to imitate.