Pronunciation of the English word devise.
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1. | We must devise some means of escape. | |
2. | He tried to devise a plan for getting rid of termites. | |
3. | He could devise clever alibis. | |
4. | Dorcon, finding himself vanquished, fled into the woods to hide his shame and displeasure, and to devise some other means of succeeding in his love affairs. | |
5. | Then first with eager joy / "O Goddess-born," the bold Achates cries, / "how now? What purpose doth thy mind devise? / Lo! all are safe – ships, comrades brought again; / one only fails us, who before our eyes / sank in the midst of the engulfing main. / All else confirms the tale thy mother told thee plain." | |
6. | "By his words made wise / this steed, for stol'n Palladium, they devise, / to soothe the outrag'd goddess." |