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• Why don’t we dispense with the formalities? Please call me Al.From the entry call
• The vending machine went wrong and dispensed five cans of drink at once.From the entry go wrong
• I wish he would dispense with the pleasantries and get to the point.From the entry dispense with
• We poured a bucket of water in at the top, and the ice-maker dispensed a batch of ice-cubes at the bottom.From the entry batch
• His liberalness in dispensing the bonuses displayed his generousity.From the entry liberalness
• A post-scarcity communism that doesn't dispense with all thoughts of the divine and numinous can't be precluded.2022, China Miéville, chapter 4, in A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, →OCLC. From the entry numinous
• It's time to unconform; to dispense with the same–same 'pastel and marble' way of doing things.2022, Nicola Moras, Into the Spotlight. From the entry unconform
• Minutes often go by during which Murphy dispenses entirely with the business of singing pop songs.2021 September 25, Kitty Empire, “Róisín Murphy review – a triumphant dancefloor workout”, in The Guardian. From the entry vogue
• Dispense 2 or 3 eyedropperfuls of the warm oil down each ear.2012, Rosemary Gladstar, Rosemary Gladstar's Medicinal Herbs: A Beginner's Guide. From the entry eyedropperful
• Matriarchs become active in their community as sages and councilors, dispensing wisdom from centuries of experience.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Asari: Biology Codex entry. From the entry climacteric
• In an age of perennially rising home prices, these tedious details could be dispensed with.2007 February 1, Edward Chancellor, “Ponzi nation”, in Institutional Investor. From the entry ninja loan
• Dispensing with phatic chitchat, he began straightaway to tell the story of his “people.”2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 467. From the entry phatic
• Unlike most filmi geets this song is a continuous, seamless melody which dispenses with non-traditional musical devices.2003, Ashraf Aziz, Light of the Universe: Essays on Hindustani Film Music, page 91. From the entry filmi geet
• Babyboomers now are starting to “get it” regarding wisdom dispensed by Babcias.1995, The Polish Studies Newsletter, page 4. From the entry babcia
• Just as our costume changes, so too do they want to dispense with the hanacaraka script.1987, Paul Tickell, The Indonesian Press: Its Past, Its People, Its Problems. From the entry hanacaraka
• One traditional fitting was retained however; liquid soap continued to be dispensed from the familiar glass bowl!1979 August, Graham Burtenshaw, Michael S. Welch, “O.V.S. Bulleid's SR loco-hauled coaches -1”, in Railway World, page 399. From the entry liquid soap
• Some skinks have adopted a subterrain life and have dispensed with their limbs.1949, Walter Reginald Brook Oliver, The moas of New Zealand and Australia, page 4. From the entry subterrain
• I did so, and there I found only one kind of drink being dispensed.1945 March 23, W. Walter Crotch, “Gossip on the Boulevards: Montmartre’s Faded Pleasures Barter at Frontignan; a Cezanne Discovery”, in…. From the entry orange-juicy
• My mother, being gemütlich by nature, would, I believe, have loved to dispense with servants altogether.1929, Robert Graves, chapter 2, in Good-Bye to All That, page 15. From the entry gemütlich
• The people hereabouts, sir, would seem to dispense with street illumination, and it is very dark tonight.1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries. From the entry illumination
• A recurrent item of expense in working the class is avoided by dispensing with the bulldog clip.1919, C[harles] S[cott] Sherrington, “Appendix”, in Mammalian Physiology: A Course of Practical Exercises, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press…. From the entry bulldog clip
• In order to facilitate taking by the patient, powders are often ordered to be dispensed in cachets.1907, Pharmaceutical Journal, volume 79, page 101. From the entry cachet
• Dogmatic philosophies have sought for tests for truth which might dispense us from appealing to the future.1902, William James, “Lecture I”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London…. From the entry dogmatic
• In its purest form, YIMBYism would dispense with zoning and occupancy laws altogether, and let people build anything anywhere.2019 May, Nicole Gelinas, “What YIMBYs Get Wrong About Housing”, in Governing. From the entry YIMBYism
• Akram is a working alim, lecturing in mosques and universities and dispensing fatwas on issues like inheritance and divorce.2007 February 25, Carla Power, “A Secret History”, in New York Times. From the entry alim
• They give up a great deal in dispensing with the custom-tailored, high storytelling craft of our new age Dungeon Masters.2006, Nicholas V. Iuppa, Terry Borst, Story and Simulations for Serious Games: Tales from the Trenches, page 118. From the entry dungeon master
• The greenies were frequently dispensed by team trainers.1992, Michael Sokolove, Hustle: The Myth, Life, and Lies of Pete Rose, New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, published 2005, →ISBN, page 78. From the entry greenie
• Religion, ritual, art, moral regulation have been sundered out of their original fusion, appreciated for a moment, and then dispensed.1988, James W. Carey, Media, myths, and narratives: television and the press. From the entry sunder out
• Despite his repeated insistence that the theater should dispense with plays, his own work in the theater was far from playless.1976, Susan Sontag, editor, Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings, page xliii. From the entry playless
• “Redeye Punch”, dispensed from an oaken barrel, was served by “Miss Kitty” Florania Tackett in a “Long Branch” setting.1976 May 19, “Home Economists are welcomed by clubbers”, in DeQuincy News, 54th year, number 7, DeQuincy, La., →OCLC, page 14, column 3. From the entry Florania
• A gnome-size German civilian with a red von Hindenburg mustache is dispensing steins of what looks to be mostly head.1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow, 1st US edition, New York: Viking Press, →ISBN, part 3: In the Zone, page 305. From the entry stein
• The steam reversing gear has been dispensed with and in its place a screw gear has been provided.1956 April, “"Merchant Navy" Class Pacific Modified”, in Railway Magazine, page 209. From the entry reversing gear
• Now I hear that you've dispensed with Roger's services, presumably to throw your lot in with my brother and his gang of crapulous shills.2021, “Retired Janitors of Idaho” (21:47 from the start), in Succession, season 3, episode 5, spoken by Ewan Roy (James Cromwell). From the entry crapulous
• With whitebagging, the drug is dispensed for a particular patient and can't be returned to the pharmacy or used on another patient.2013, Linda, “Payers Want Specialty Drug Distribution to Change”, in Drug Channels. From the entry whitebagging

Meaning of dispense

1. verb To issue, distribute, or give out.
2. verb To apply, as laws to particular cases; to administer; to execute; to manage; to direct.
3. verb To supply or make up a medicine or prescription.

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Questions about dispense in a sentence

How do you use dispense in a sentence?

Dispense is used as a verb and noun. For example: “The pharmacist dispensed my tablets.”

What is a short sentence with dispense?

“to dispense justice”

What does dispense mean?

Dispense means to issue, distribute, or give out.