How to Use develop in a Sentence

develop

verb
  • The course is designed to develop your writing skills.
  • He develops the concept more fully in his book.
  • A blossom develops from a bud.
  • In this class, we will be learning about how languages develop.
  • The doctor says that the child is developing normally.
  • The company has developed a new method for recycling old tires.
  • The island has developed its economy around tourism.
  • The story was later developed into a novel.
  • Scientists are developing a treatment for the disease.
  • She has been exercising regularly to develop her back muscles.
  • Plants exposed to drafts from windows and outside doors often develop this whitening.
    oregonlive, 17 Dec. 2022
  • There is no doubt that a fit-for-purpose policy approach will take time and imagination to develop and refine.
    Miller Whitehouse-Levine, Fortune, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Legend has instantly come across as a star, and the pair’s crowd connection has developed quicker than anyone could have imagined.
    Blake Oestriecher, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024
  • Wolf somehow found the time to develop a partnership with Suzuki and set up a motorcycle racing team.
    Brendan McAleer, Car and Driver, 25 Dec. 2022
  • That probably impacts how our neurons develop and organize, the authors say.
    Jason P. Dinh, Discover Magazine, 28 Dec. 2022
  • The county declined to reverse course on its new approach to ocean monitoring, which took nearly a decade to develop and get approved by state and federal officials.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Dec. 2022
  • The law requires the State Department to develop and report back to Congress a strategy for achieving progress in those areas.
    Joseph Morton, Dallas News, 28 Dec. 2022
  • Officials in the United States fear that the coronavirus will spread rapidly in China, allowing new variants to develop and spread around the world.
    Tiffany May, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2022
  • The changes at the plateau are part of wider efforts to develop key tourist sites in the country.
    Reuters, CNN, 22 Oct. 2020
  • The state plans to work with three teams to develop, design and construct the bridge.
    John Sharp, AL.com, 28 Aug. 2017
  • The carpel grabs the pollen and transfers it to a chamber called an ovary, where seeds develop.
    Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 26 May 2021
  • He’d been signed, developed and brought to the big leagues by Cleveland.
    Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 29 July 2023
  • Some regions develop cool spots that glow a darker red than the rest of the orb—those are called sunspots.
    Nicole Clausing, Sunset Magazine, 11 Oct. 2023
  • The focus is to develop the roster and put some order to the depth chart behind the starters.
    David Moore, Dallas News, 5 Aug. 2021
  • Gone are the days of waiting ages for self-tanner to develop.
    Sarah Han, Allure, 24 May 2022
  • So there needs to be a global effort to develop new mines in new places.
    Jonah Bader, CNN, 12 Oct. 2021
  • There may be itching and pain, and the skin is numb and may develop white, red or yellow patches.
    Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Keep the soil slightly damp until roots develop in a few months.
    Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 30 Mar. 2021
  • His dad had him in the gym at a young age, developed him into a real good player.
    Gary Bedore, kansascity, 3 Nov. 2017
  • One person died in Colorado and four people have developed a potentially life-threatening kidney disease complication.
    Jonel Aleccia, The Denver Post, 13 Nov. 2024

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