How to Use devise in a Sentence

devise

verb

• They have devised a new method for converting sunlight into electricity.
• Maybe even devise five-year plans.
  — Karen Hinds, Hartford Courant, 13 Jan. 2026
• First canals and then locks were devised to guide boats around the falls.
  — Adam Sachs, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Mar. 2026
• Jim had so many friends who wanted to take him to chemo that a schedule had been devised.
  — Ann Patchett, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
• Parkinson’s challenge was to devise a plan to overcome these odds.
  — Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2026
• And plenty of other models yet to be devised.
  — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 31 May 2026
• But over the course of the next week, Nakase will be devising a plan to stop Reese.
  — Nathan Canilao, Mercury News, 25 June 2026
• That leaves academics to pore over surveys that are too slow and too broad to be useful, or to devise new ones.
  — Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic, 29 June 2026
• The sum seems devised by the author to test Isabella and find her out.
  — Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2025
• The problem is, this is just the most powerful tool that’s ever been devised.
  — Brian Welk, IndieWire, 18 Mar. 2026
• Some innovators try to devise a gadget that changes the world.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 19 Nov. 2023
• Sashko helped settle new arrivals and soon devised other useful projects.
  — James Verini, The Atlantic, 12 May 2026
• The doctors then devise a program based on the test results and the guest’s personal aims.
  — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 May 2026
• 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
• 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
• 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
• There isn’t an explicit callout of why the law was devised and enacted.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 25 Jan. 2026
• In this case, the team devised a way to directly merge the mechanophores as cross-links into common polymers.
  — Shirl Leigh june 10, New Atlas, 10 June 2026
• Allow anyone who has an idea about devising a computer program to be able to do so.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
• The equal time rules were devised at a time when consumers had a limited number of media options.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2026
• Doing so could enable us to devise new training techniques on how humans can learn new languages.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
• Vibration testing is a ground test devised to put an aircraft through its paces without taking to the skies.
  — Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 11 Feb. 2026
• The authority devised the structure of the tax.
  — Mercury News Editorial, Mercury News, 23 May 2026
• Some other way of devising AI might be required.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
• Use them to devise your own words of inspiration for life's bigger moments — and smaller ones too.
  — Malaka Gharib, NPR, 13 Aug. 2025
• For my coverage on how AI is devised to be sycophantic, see the link here.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 23 May 2026
• Many suspect a spam call and don't pick up the phone, leading foundation staff to sometimes devise ruses.
  — Kelly Meyerhofer, jsonline.com, 8 Oct. 2025
• Still, scientists have devised clever ways to investigate how sleep and dreams can affect us.
  — Veronique Greenwood, Time, 26 Feb. 2026
• Laws governing the use of AI should be devised in a Goldilocks manner.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
• Meetings will be held every other week to devise a master plan for all 16 acres inside and out.
  — Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 13 Jan. 2026