How to Use solve in a Sentence

solve

verb

• The mystery has been solved.
• He couldn't solve the math problem.
• They are working to solve the traffic problem.
• If they'll lend us the money we need, all our problems will be solved.
• The FBI has been trying to solve the case for years.
• And people have been trying to solve this in all kinds of ways.
  — Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 20 Mar. 2024
• If that case could be solved after so long, why not Ann’s?
  — Veronica Fulton, NBC News, 10 Sep. 2023
• But this is only half of the problem that needs solving.
  — Peter Guest, WIRED, 16 Feb. 2024
• For many readers, Finnegans Wake isn’t a text to master or a puzzle to solve.
  — Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Dec. 2023
• Aren’t these the very problems Obamacare was supposed to solve?
  — John C. Goodman, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
• With that mystery solved, Lee moved on to give us the skinny about that buzzy butter.
  — Karla Walsh, Southern Living, 18 Dec. 2023
• This is a problem that is not going to be solved by putting guards on the border or barbed wire.
  — Albinson Linares, NBC News, 3 Apr. 2024
• How about Robin Roberts helping to solve a mystery ripped from the headlines?
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 19 Sep. 2023
• The inflation pack solves the problem of bringing a heavy pump in your pack and makes the setup faster.
  — Max Inchausti, Field & Stream, 2 Aug. 2023
• Apple hopes that its new app will solve these problems.
  — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Apr. 2023
• The key is to create products that solve real problems.
  — Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 29 Aug. 2023
• After their last meeting, Anthony Davis said the Nuggets do the same thing to the Lakers over and over and the team has been unable to solve it.
  — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2024
• That way, problems are more likely to be solved—and feelings are less likely to be hurt.
  — Jenna Ryu, SELF, 16 Feb. 2024
• Many will choose to work to solve those problems in the private sector, at startups or tech giants.
  — Jennifer Pahlka, WIRED, 8 Jan. 2024
• And making sense of the sound becomes an important problem to solve.
  — Charlotte Hu, Popular Science, 24 Apr. 2023
• In their 20s, the Horwath girls became more involved in trying to solve their mother’s case.
  — Veronica Fulton, NBC News, 1 Oct. 2023
• But the frenzy may feed into the very same culture of consumption some people use it to solve for.
  — Samhita Mukhopadhyay, Bon Appétit, 21 Dec. 2023
• The method may solve a bottleneck to using A*, which is that the method requires a lot of computing power.
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 27 Feb. 2024
• And the assignments always aim to solve a local problem.
  — Dionne Searcey, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2023
• Somewhere out there, though, is a product that seems pointless to me but gives you zaps of joy by solving a tiny problem.
  — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2023
• So far, companion robots haven’t lived up to the hype—and might even exacerbate the problems they’re meant to solve.
  — Stephanie H. Murray, The Atlantic, 21 Mar. 2024
• On the other hand, something that can’t be solved through technology is one’s mindset and the mindset of the people around them.
  — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 11 May 2023
• So the city’s relatively slow hiring process appears to be the last major cause of the vacancies left to be solved.
  — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 July 2023
• Felix, by contrast, is nimble; quick to pick up on warning signs and solve problems.
  — Jasmine Liu, The New Republic, 4 Aug. 2023
• Teenagers born decades apart who find each other only in death, Edwin and Charles are best friends and ghosts who solve mysteries.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 3 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024