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  • verb Present participle of devote.

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Examples

  • I enjoy writing short stories, but I'm no good at marketing them and with so many other things demanding my time I rarely feel justified in devoting a day or two to producing one.

    Author-friends, Meet Hannah Tinti 2009

  • Is there any problem in devoting a little space at the conclusion of a feature like this to let readers know how they can help?

    Generous readers help Burrito Man's kids Steve Hendrix 2010

  • I found that I could not compose a female without again devoting several months to profound study and laborious disquisition.

    Chapter 18 2010

  • I found that I could not compose a female without again devoting several months to profound study and laborious disquisition.

    Chapter 1 2010

  • Light news day today but the The Daily Mail is entirely justified in devoting an entire editorial to just what an odious snob Salman Rushdie is.

    She Reads Dostoyevski You Know ... Newmania 2008

  • But there was a silver lining in devoting such attention to the issue of a young woman's health and weight: A decade or two ago, the issue would have been ignored, to the detriment of the athlete and her sport.

    USATODAY.com - Women's natural abilities in sports are a sight to behold 2003

  • It is clear that there is no percentage for business in devoting its energies to the search for culprits.

    Towards a New Business—Government Understanding in Canada 1981

  • Here he is again devoting his time chiefly to work on radiation-induced mutations, using them on the one hand for purposes of genetic analysis and on the other hand in the study of how radiation produces its biological effects.

    Hermann J. Muller - Biography 1964

  • These Nazarites, though they were not to cut their hair, yet by reason of their temperate diet, their frequent washings, and especially the pleasure they had in devoting themselves to God and conversing with him, which made their faces to shine as

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721

  • [...] you are interested in devoting some serious time to contributing, then check out their application instructions and email your application by March 7th, [...]

    Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Could YOU be WU’s next contributor? 2010

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