8 sentences with 'devoted'
Example sentences and phrases with the word devoted and other words derived from it.
• « Numerous papyri are devoted to pharmacopoeia, and some even give an account of remedies for children who cry too much. »
• « The solution is to give yourselves some time that is not necessarily devoted to sex, but to intimacy between partners, which will give you the opportunity to feel attached to each other again. »
• « Instead, Socrates' beliefs and arguments were recorded by his student Plato, who devoted them to prose despite sharing Socrates' disdain for the written word. »
• « Petrarch personally rediscovered the long-lost works of Cicero, considered the greatest writer of ancient Rome during the Republican period, and devoted himself to training to emulate Cicero's rhetorical style. »
• « Louis XIV devoted himself to glorifying French achievements in art, scholarship and his personal obsession: war. »
• « On the one hand, Empress Maria Theresa was a devoted wife (of a "consort" king - her husband had no power over the empire) and mother of some sixteen children (though not all survived infancy). »
• « Louis XIV of France had a branch of the royal government devoted entirely to verifying claims of nobility and stripping noble titles from those who did not have adequate proof. »
• « The term used at the time for "science" was "natural philosophy", a branch of philosophy devoted to the observation and cataloguing of natural phenomena, for the most part without attempting to explain those observations outside of references to ancient authorities and the Bible. »