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How to use emphasise in a sentence

32 example sentences · verb

Emphasise means UK standard spelling of emphasize. Example: “If you want to emphasise the shape, it is possible to gather the waistline.”

Examples of emphasise by meaning

verbUK standard spelling of emphasize.

  • It has emphasised that the proposals do not involve any work on the railway itself, so train services would continue to run throughout.2022 January 12, “Network News: £7.2 million plan to stop flooding and protect South West rail link”, in RAIL, number 948, page 12
  • “Even though the religion here seems to emphasise peace and mindfulness, the land is turbulent, there is always conflict, and the environmental impact on the river has been very dramatic.”2022 February 28, Rosanna McLaughlin, “Thao Nguyen Phan: ‘There’s beauty and optimism in these tragic stories’”, in The Guardian, archived...
  • Newt Gingrich accused New York mayor Bill De Blasio of “small soy latte liberalism” in 2014 – emphasising that the only thing more girlish than drinking a big dairy milky coffee was drinking a small vegan milky coffee.2025 September 4, Sam Wolfson, quoting Newt Gingrich, “Latte-swilling ‘performative males’: why milky drinks are shorthand for liberal”, in...

More sentences with emphasise

  • If you want to emphasise the shape, it is possible to gather the waistline.From the entry gather
  • Geng Dingxiang emphasised its non-abstruse and non-profound aspect of refined subtlety within coarse shallowness.2021, Xuezhi Zhang, History of Chinese Philosophy in the Ming Dynasty, page 392. From the entry non-abstruse
  • She emphasises that being transgender really has nothing to do with your anatomy.2015 August 29, Ben Machell, “The transgender kids”, in The Times, London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Mar 2023. From the entry transgender
  • Gregory encouraged his audience to compare the two queens by emphasising their differences.2015, E. T Dailey, Queens, Consorts, Concubines, page 119. From the entry Brunhild
  • Another type of theory emphasises the sometimes accidental nature of evolution.2009, Anna R. Kinsella, Language Evolution and Syntactic Theory, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 13. From the entry spandrel
  • In this medieval tradition this science’s ethical-political function was emphasised; thus it became part of speculum-literature.2006, Rhoda Schnur, Perrine Galand-Hallyn, editors, Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Bonnensis: Proceedings of the Twelfth International Congress…. From the entry speculum-literature
  • We should emphasise that the militariat enlists both military and civilians members.2004, Democracy and Development. From the entry militariat
  • The Dakshinacharas emphasised the male principle while the Vamacharas paid more attention to the female principle.1967, K. Damodaran, Indian Thought: A Critical Survey, page 235. From the entry vamachara
  • He was standing as he spoke, emphasising his periods with semaphoric motions of his right arm.1913, Horace Annesley Vachell, Bunch Grass. From the entry semaphoric
  • Although commonly practised among individuals with vulvas, it's crucial to emphasise that syntribation is not exclusive to any gender.2024 February 4, Sharon D’silva, “Syntribation - The Hands-Free Masturbation Technique You Need To Try!”, in Femina, archived from the…. From the entry syntribation
  • The "digital picking system"concept emphasises cutting down on pickers’ travel time while also making their work more comfortable.2022 December 31, Aniruddha Prashant Jahagirdar, “Analysis and Development of a Digital Picking System using IoT and Logistic 4.0”, in…. From the entry digital picking
  • Additionally, it emphasises accelerating delivery with no to little mistake.2022 December 31, Aniruddha Prashant Jahagirdar, “Analysis and Development of a Digital Picking System using IoT and Logistic 4.0”, in…. From the entry digital picking
  • Theophylact emphasises to him that the patriarch did not have rights of consecration in the archbishopric, as it was autocephalous.2012, “The autocephalous Byzantine ecclesiastical province of Bulgaria/Ohrid. How independent were its archbishops?”, in Bulgaria…. From the entry stauropegion
  • The bandages on his hands – cerise and incarnadine, opalescent and viridian – were grotesqueries that only emphasised his stature.2010, Stephen [Reeder] Donaldson, Against All Things Ending, London: Gollancz, →ISBN. From the entry incarnadine
  • The ‘Pricklies’ emphasise the structure of the curriculum and provide lots of teacher-directed drill, especially in the teaching of ‘phonics’.1992, Alan J[ohn] Watson, Anne M. Badenhop, “Introduction: Moving Out of a Shadow”, in Alan J. Watson, Anne M. Badenhop, editors…. From the entry gooey
  • The ‘Gooies’ emphasise the child’s self-directed exploration of print.1992, Alan J[ohn] Watson, Anne M. Badenhop, “Introduction: Moving Out of a Shadow”, in Alan J. Watson, Anne M. Badenhop, editors…. From the entry gooey
  • Aunt Em was working at a new piece of French tapestry, her slight aquilinity emphasised by tortoise-shell spectacles.1933, John Galsworthy, chapter 5, in Over the River, Toronto: The Ryerson Press, page 32. From the entry aquilinity
  • His blue serge suit and red tie, his grey felt hat, seemed to emphasise his neat, rather barberish air.1912, W. L. George, The City of Light, page 67. From the entry barberish
  • In a shift in tone from his previously more strident embrace of ESG, Fink emphasised that clients were responsible for their own investment decisions.2023 April 29, Kenza Bryan, “US investors ditch green funds on ‘woke capitalism’ backlash”, in FT Weekend, London: The Financial Times…. From the entry ESG
  • Its presence in the very centre of the town certainly emphasises the dominance of Christianity at Sufetula from at least the fourth century onwards.2007, Gareth Sears, Late Roman African Urbanism: Continuity and transformation in the city, page 55. From the entry Sufetula
  • It must be emphasised that this was genuinely a 'historical' action; letter-writing to the prozines is currently a discouraged area of fanac.1977, Brian Ash, The Visual encyclopedia of science fiction, Harmony Books, page 274. From the entry fanac
  • As befits an advocate of “Manchesterism”, Burnham emphasised that he was “place first rather than party first”, citing the support he had attracted from “traditional Conservatives” across three elections.2025 October 7, George Eaton, “Andy Burnham returns to the fray”, in The New Statesman, archived from the original on 19 Nov 2025. From the entry Manchesterism
  • As mentioned above, it was the Conservative government which devised the complex structure of privatisation that emphasised the separation far beyond what was needed to follow EU rules.2019 October 23, Christian Wolmar, “It's not the EU's fault that privatisation has broken down”, in Rail, page 49. From the entry privatisation
  • Urging us to think transversally across three ecological registers – mental, social and environmental – Guattari emphasises the necessity to confront our enslavement in global capitalism.2016, Helene Frichot, Deleuze and the City, Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, page 3. From the entry transversally
  • During the past three decades historians have conceived new ways of thinking about the pre-revolutionary polity and public life and have emphasised its participatory and semi-republican or quasi-republican elements.2013, Markku Peltonen, Rhetoric, Politics and Popularity in Pre-Revolutionary England, →ISBN, page 3. From the entry pre-revolutionary
  • An old Geordie saying says: ‘Shy bairns get nowt!’ It literally means ‘shy children get nothing’, but is used to emphasise that people should speak up for themselves.2011, John Marrin, “Ten Tips on Taking the Lead”, in Leadership for Dummies (For Dummies Series), Chichester, West Sussex: John Wiley…. From the entry shy bairns get nowt
  • Another problem is that reconstructions of Paul with the help of the concept of 'corporate personality' tend to emphasise the objectivity and realised character of the Christ event.2009, Hans Burger, Being in Christ: A Biblical and Systematic Investigation, page 264. From the entry Christ event
  • Above all, he flatters the men by emphasising their numerical victory: a British regiment may have turned into a troop, but it left behind it 'labyrinthed legions' of dead Russians.1995, Patrick Waddington, Theirs but to do and die, page 148. From the entry labyrinth
  • The Attorney-General, however, had used this episode, which Martin in retrospect had felt to be a blot on the scutcheon, merely to emphasise the intelligence and resource of the prisoner.1935, Francis Beeding [pseudonym; John Palmer], “10/6”, in The Norwich Victims, →OL. From the entry episode

Meaning of emphasise

  1. verb UK standard spelling of emphasize.

Full definition of emphasise

Questions about emphasise in a sentence

How do you use emphasise in a sentence?
Emphasise is used as a verb. For example: “If you want to emphasise the shape, it is possible to gather the waistline.”
What is a short sentence with emphasise?
“The ‘Gooies’ emphasise the child’s self-directed exploration of print.”
What does emphasise mean?
Emphasise means UK standard spelling of emphasize.

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