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How to use render in a sentence

40 example sentences · verb, noun

Render means to cause to become. Example: “The shot rendered her immobile.”

Examples of render by meaning

verbTo cause to become.

  • The shot rendered her immobile.
  • Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
  • This, coupled with regular cancellations, has rendered the train service between the area's two biggest towns almost unusable.2022 November 2, Paul Bigland, “New trains, old trains, and splendid scenery”, in RAIL, number 969, page 57

verbTo interpret, give an interpretation or rendition of.

  • The pianist rendered the Beethoven sonata beautifully.

verbTo translate into another language.

  • to render Latin into English

verbTo pass down.

  • render a verdict (i.e., deliver a judgment)

verbTo make over as a return.

  • They had to render the estate.

verbTo give; to give back; to deliver.

  • render aid; render money
  • to render an account of what really happened
  • The first thing that greets you on entering the church is a notice asking you not to vex the goat, since it renders valuable service in keeping the churchyard tidy.1980, AA book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 164

verbTo transform (a model) into a display on the screen or other media.

  • They will feature full-motion-video backgrounds that will behave as if rendered in 3-D—the Rabbids will duck behind and jump over real objects as if they were designed into the stage.2007 December, Andy Salisbury, “Rascally Rabbids”, in Nintendo Power, volume 222, page 32

verbTo convert waste animal tissue into a usable byproduct.

  • rendering of fat into soap

More sentences with render

  • He was broke and rendered unfit to serve His Majesty at sea.From the entry broke
  • The font wasn't able to render all the diacritical marks properly.From the entry mark
  • They inherited an interesting nineteenth-century cookbook from their grandparents. It tells how to render lard.From the entry cookbook
  • A land monopoly renders its holder(s) nearly almighty in an agricultural society.From the entry monopoly
  • No customer personal data will be retained unless it is rendered anonymous.From the entry anonymous
  • The intrusion of the virus rendered our other security efforts useless.From the entry intrusion
  • The blow to his head rendered him senseless; he didn’t awaken until he was in the ambulance.From the entry senseless
  • His lack of a high school diploma renders him unqualified for the job.From the entry unqualified
  • In recent years, animators using computer rendering have largely superseded artists working by hand.From the entry animator
  • Her years of experience enabled her to render a masterly performance.From the entry masterly
  • One renders young people a disservice by heaping unearned rewards on them.From the entry disservice
  • He stood there speechlessly. The surprise had rendered him unable to make an intelligible reply.From the entry speechlessly
  • Exclusive dedication to necessitous chores without interludes of hedonistic diversion renders Jack a hebetudinous fellow.From the entry hebetudinous
  • I've already rendered the invoices for payment.From the entry invoice
  • The painting was an unfaithful rendering of its subject.From the entry unfaithful
  • Superstition held that fern seed renders one invisible.From the entry fern seed
  • The compound rendered the surface of the vessel unimpregnable.From the entry unimpregnable
  • The quotation was rendered with felicity.From the entry felicity
  • In those days there was a ferry at Sleepytown. Modern roads and bridges for motor vehicles have rendered such local river ferries obsolete.From the entry ferry
  • Most military radios have some antijamming capability so they can be used in spite of the enemy's efforts to render them inoperative.From the entry antijamming
  • The divorce court was overturned when it rendered a criminal conviction against a party, because it lacked the subject matter jurisdiction to hear a criminal case.From the entry subject matter jurisdiction
  • Each luminarium is an original design. The principal difference between the different luminaria is found in the rendering of the domes and in the layout of the tunnels.From the entry luminarium
  • There, in this engineered quietude, the dearth of sound grows profound, rendering the space uncannily alien.2026 June 29, A. S. Bariwch, The Senses: Perception and Experience (Cambridge Elements: Elements in Philosophy of Mind), Cambridge…. From the entry quietude
  • The T-shirt is white, with a simple message, “Freedom,” rendered in plain black letters across the chest.2025 September 14, Alexander Nazaryan, “‘Freedom’ Shirt Becomes a Meme and an Instant Commodity”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry commodify
  • The essence of dehumanization is not to see someone, to render him inconsequential and invisible.2023 November 2, David Brooks, “How to Stay Sane in Brutalizing Times”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 04 Nov 2023. From the entry dehumanization
  • Of course, you’ll want to have a fairly beefy PC to render this impeccable lighting.2023 February 23, Antonio G. Di Benedetto, “You can now play the original Half-Life with beautiful beams of ray-traced light”, in The Verge. From the entry forumgoer
  • Additionally, infrareds tend to cook food faster so there's less time to render said fat.2020, Jenny Dorsey, The Infrared Grill Master: Recipes and Techniques for Perfectly Seared, Deliciously Smokey BBQ Every Time. From the entry infrared
  • Finally, we’ll write the method to render the appointment slot radio buttons.2020 March 13, Tony Spiro, “Build an Appointment Scheduler Using React, Twilio and Cosmic JS”, in HackerNoon. From the entry meridiem

Meaning of render

  1. verb To cause to become.
  2. verb To interpret, give an interpretation or rendition of.
  3. verb To translate into another language.

Full definition of render

Questions about render in a sentence

How do you use render in a sentence?
Render is used as a verb and noun. For example: “The shot rendered her immobile.”
What is a short sentence with render?
“render aid; render money”
What does render mean?
Render means to cause to become.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: render (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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