How to Use devise in a Sentence

devise

verb

• They have devised a new method for converting sunlight into electricity.
• With this new insight, Gypsy devised a plan to run away with Dan, who promised to take care of her.
  — Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 6 Jan. 2024
• An appeal reached the Supreme Court, which devised a test to clarify the reach of Section 5 claims.
  — Nick Corasaniti, New York Times, 21 Nov. 2023
• Jackson and his sound team devised a method to isolate Lennon’s vocal on the original tape with the help of AI.
  — Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 26 Oct. 2023
• That’s the nature of generative AI and how it is devised.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2024
• Now, both sides are blaming the other for the failure, straining to devise a path forward.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 2 Oct. 2023
• Some innovators try to devise a gadget that changes the world.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 19 Nov. 2023
• Sometimes results won't provide a clear answer, and new ways of testing might have to be devised.
  — Conor Feehly, Discover Magazine, 22 June 2023
• Chung’s response to the Mall’s grandiosity was to devise the only installation that will hug the earth.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2023
• Around that same time, Randy and his friends devised a plan to surprise Ana, 17, with a special visit during one of her high school basketball games.
  — Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 30 Jan. 2024
• Once a repair for the issue has been devised, owners will be advised to go to their Ford or Lincoln dealer to have the vehicles fixed at no charge.
  — Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 6 June 2023
• There is one upside to the fact that this is such a common annoyance: Many people have devised clever solutions.
  — Annie Midori Atherton, Washington Post, 6 June 2023
• Our Test Kitchen devised a simple hack to ensure galette success every time (no leaks or breached pastry here).
  — Melissa Gray, Southern Living, 7 July 2023
• The first cloud chamber was devised by physicist Charles Thomas Rees Wilson in 1895 to reproduce the airborne puffs and study their behavior.
  — Bill Gourgey, Popular Science, 23 Nov. 2023
• After a working group devised plans for the inaugural process last fall, the city turned to residents in March for their input on how the money should be spent.
  — Alex Koller, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Aug. 2023
• The two devised a plan that called for reverse diagonal parking and refurbishment of the area.
  — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2023
• In the nineteen-seventies, Bruce Ames, a biochemist at Berkeley, devised a way to test whether a chemical might cause cancer.
  — Siddhartha Mukherjee, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
• Wu has said the city will work with the state to devise a transportation plan for the O’Bryant students that is expected to include dedicated shuttles.
  — Deanna Pan, BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2023
• Savill helped devise the U.K.’s creative sector tax reliefs, which have stood the test of time since being introduced some 15 years ago.
  — Steve Clarke, Variety, 14 Dec. 2023
• Many of these techniques were devised to decode sleep's role in memory and cognition.
  — Ingrid Wickelgren, Scientific American, 20 Feb. 2024
• Doing so could enable us to devise new training techniques on how humans can learn new languages.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
• Now, under the watchful eye of the court, the council will have to devise a new map that complies with a complex tangle of federal legal requirements.
  — Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2023
• Do a risk assessment of everything that could go wrong and devise solutions for those problems.
  — Craig Caudill, Field & Stream, 18 Oct. 2023
• The Radius Outfitters Gear Box 3500 empowers campers to devise a storage system that best suits their needs.
  — Kevin Brouillard, Travel + Leisure, 21 Feb. 2024
• With help from an influential supporter and partner, Commerce Bank’s Jonathan Kemper, the group devised a plan to restore the garden in stages as the money came in.
  — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 30 Jan. 2024
• The officers allegedly reviewed the footage after the incident, then devised a plan to prevent the video from being reviewed.
  — Christina Coulter, Fox News, 2 Oct. 2023
• When it was introduced more than two decades ago, Medicare Advantage had been devised as a money-saving plan.
  — Don Lee, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2023
• Mia writes stories and devises her own secret language.
  — Austin Elias-De Jesus, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2023
• One of the most notorious puzzles, devised by the mathematician Sir Roger Penrose in 2017, puts stronger black pieces (such as the queen and rooks) on the board, but in awkward positions.
  — Stephen Ornes, Quanta Magazine, 15 Nov. 2023
• And one advocacy group has devised a way of calculating that cost.
  — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 3 July 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024