7 sentences with 'proved'

Example sentences and phrases with the word proved and other words derived from it.

• « John traveled by ship to Ireland, and in that country proved himself an able officer. »
• « He proved to management that he was capable of leading the company into the future, and created a higher position for himself with his business strategies. »
• « But the young Epstein proved to be an ambitious and daring learner. »
• « Ford had been working on a new engine, which proved to be very powerful. »
• « The loss that proved most damaging was that of William Knudsen, one of Ford's most trusted men and, according to Henry himself, "the best production man in America." »
• « Around the same time, William Gilbert, an English physician and physicist, published a book, De magnete, which proved that the phenomenon of magnetism also had therapeutic properties. This gave rise to the so-called "magnetic cures". »
• « My friend's demonstration in New York ruined a roast, but it proved incontrovertibly the existence of a war more secret than those of the CIA: the ultrasound fights between hunter bats and hunted moths, which have all the subtlety of contemporary aerial combat. »
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