What is "comprise"

Usage examples of "comprise".

Within days Adams appointed two special envoys who, with General Pinckney, would comprise a new commission to proceed to Paris.

The two commissioners and a few workers at hand comprised the welcoming committee for the arrival of John Adams, the first President to occupy what only much later would become known as the White House.

They either comprise statements which are borrowed from the Adoptian Christology, or they testify in an unreflective way to the Dominion and Deity of Christ.

An Oscan-speaking region, it comprised mainly mountainous country behind Latium, and extended to the Adriatic adjacent to Apulia.

This is a representative of the true adjective dyes, which comprise most of the so-called Alizarine dye-stuffs, and logwood, fustic, and most of the natural dye-stuffs.

From the fences that were visible, I guessed that the property comprised maybe twenty fenced acres that extended from close to the banks of the Blue River up to the borders of the Arapahoe National Forest.

Gazing down, Aeriel saw the great crescent advancing now, comprising allies of every hue: blue Berneans, pale green Zambulans, Pirseans with coppery skin, pale Terraineans and gold-complected refugees from Avaric, the rose-skinned people of Rani and the teal-colored folk of Elver, dark Mariners, Isterners with plum-colored skin, and the cinnamon-colored wanderers of the desert lands.

People in remote corners of the earth will be able to select from publishing backlists and front lists comprising millions of titles.

The former comprise the Juangs, Kharrias, Mundas, Bhumij, Ho or Larka Kols, Santals, Birhors, Korwas, Kurs, Kurkus or Muasis, Bhils, Minas, Kulis.

It comprised 33 merchant ships beside an armed merchant cruiser, the auxiliary cruiser Cheshire, a 10,500 ton passenger liner of the Bibby Line, Liverpool.

He alone knew the correct order in which the fifteen biomolecular units comprising the affinity twin had to be assembled.

Your gang was swapping detailed bioscientific chitchat with a team of Comprise that is ostensibly here as engineers and physicists.

Her husband, Nicky Brompton, heir to a dukedom, called himself a farmer and omitted to specify that the estates on whose income his family was maintained comprised three thousand arable acres in Gloucestershire and East Anglia, a hundred times as much in Costa Rica with two gold mines beneath, and a district of London where luxury apartments leased by lesser millionaires rubbed buttresses with i92os model tenements built by Brompton Trust.

Thoroughbreds comprising those animals sporting the red browband on their bridles that proclaimed them as belonging to the Hall.

MINUTES LATER, Beta RAM was dressed and touring the temporary shelters that comprised Camp Earth, which was erected on a flat plateau in the Caballo Mountains west of the White Sands Missile Range.