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How to use device in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Device means any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one. Example: “Other devices measure water flow in streams fed by melted ice.”

Examples of device by meaning

nounAny piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one.

  • Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly)

nounA project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice. 1602, Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of...

  • I had used eight shells for lighting fires before I hit upon the device of banking the embers with wet moss, and there remained not over a hundred shells in the box.1904, Jack London, chapter 30, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC

nounAn improvised explosive device, home-made bomb.

  • THE ARMY BOMB Disposal Team rendered safe a viable device in Cavan this afternoon.2014 September 3, Cliodhna Russell, “A viable device was found in Cavan today, it has now been made safe”, in The Journal
  • The army bomb squad carried out two controlled explosions on the device.2014 August 3, Louise Kelly, Conor Feehan, “Suspect device found at shopping centre revealed as hoax”, in Irish Independent

nounPower of devising; invention; contrivance.

  • We have known each other for 17 years, yet we are presently separated through no device of our own making.1986 February 1, James E. Lewis, “Love In The Worst Of Times”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 28, page 5

nounAny specific class of wordplay element in a cryptic crossword.

  • These eight devices, and combinations thereof, account for nearly every kind of wordplay you will encounter in cryptic crosswords.2001 06, Fraser Simpson, 101 Cryptic Crosswords: From the New Yorker, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 6
  • All the devices can be combined and twisted to produce surface readings in each clue which point you in the wrong direction.2013 November 7, Alan Connor, Two Girls, One on Each Knee: The Puzzling, Playful World of the Crossword, Penguin UK, →ISBN
  • As with all varieties of cryptic clues, the container device can be used in conjunction with other devices, especially in more complex cryptic crosswords.2020 March 30, Denise Sutherland, Solving Cryptic Crosswords For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 48

More sentences with device

  • Other devices measure water flow in streams fed by melted ice.From the entry flow
  • The device can be used for both civilian and military purposes.From the entry purpose
  • We will be replacing some manned tolls with high-speed device readers.From the entry toll
  • Electronic devices are liable to malfunction when exposed to extreme heat.From the entry liable
  • The company gave us a sneak look at their new electronic devices.From the entry sneak
  • Left to my own devices, I'll spend hours staring into space, just thinking.From the entry leave someone to their own devices
  • Let's leave her to her own devices and see what she comes up with.From the entry leave someone to their own devices
  • In a world filled with media and electronic devices, recollection can be difficult.From the entry recollection
  • The antitheft device meant the thief could not leave the store.From the entry antitheft
  • Our cloud storage automatically syncs your files to all your devices.From the entry sync
  • The proliferation of labor-saving devices has not given us more leisure time, paradoxically.From the entry paradoxically
  • The regulator stopped working and the resulting overvoltage destroyed the device.From the entry regulator
  • The museum curator went to the shelf and pulled down an ancient metering device.From the entry metering
  • Every morning he powered up his electronic devices, even before making coffee.From the entry power up
  • The disabled child communicates using a joysticklike device to select words from a menu.From the entry joysticklike
  • In stage one, rats were pretrained to drink from a rotary device.From the entry pretrain
  • The device sits on little feet made of some kind of hard rubber.From the entry hard rubber
  • The automatic clothes washer was a great labor-saving device.From the entry automatic
  • ISA devices draw power from the +5 V, −5 V, +12 V, and −12 V rails of the power supply unit.From the entry rail
  • This device is small and hand-held, perfect for travel.From the entry hand-held
  • Storage devices can be given by label or ID.From the entry label
  • We pouched the encryption device to our embassy in Beijing.From the entry pouch
  • The engineers tested several configurations of the new device.From the entry configuration
  • This chip in this disk drive is the channel device.From the entry channel
  • The next day, the team had to wear special ice climbing footwear while repairing other research devices on the glacier.From the entry climbing
  • Dosimeters normally take the form of optically stimulated luminescence (OSL), photographic film, thermoluminescent devices (TLD) or electronic personal dosimeters (PDM).From the entry dosimeter
  • These devices' energy consumption is parasitism upon the electrical grid.From the entry parasitism
  • He could hear better when he used his listening device.From the entry listening
  • To build such a device will require an expert mechanician.From the entry mechanician
  • The device is available in both handheld and fixtured models.From the entry fixture
  • The new device utilized technologies that preexisted.From the entry preexist
  • The linkup between the devices broke and we lost control.From the entry linkup

Meaning of device

  1. noun Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one.
  2. noun A peripheral device; an item of hardware.
  3. noun A project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice. 1602, Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor. "This is our device,/ That Falstaff at that oak shall meet with us.".

Full definition of device

Questions about device in a sentence

How do you use device in a sentence?
Device is used as a noun. For example: “Other devices measure water flow in streams fed by melted ice.”
What is a short sentence with device?
“The new device utilized technologies that preexisted.”
What does device mean?
Device means any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: device (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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