Sentence examples for Devote means from inspiring English sources

The word "devote" means to set apart or consecrate – so consider that your child's quiet, personal time with God should be a sacred time, done in "secret".

During the illness a household devoted a mean (SD) of 11.4 (0.9) days taking care of the sick child, which resulted in a mean (SD) of 8.3 (0.73) days of lost work among household members.

Surveyed physicians devoted a mean (standard deviation [SD]) of 87%11%1%) of their working day to clinical practice, and saw a mean (SD) of 35 (33) patients with UC in a typical month.

Still, Salinger has the right to tell her own story as she sees it (although some might wonder if the pages and pages she devotes to mean boarding school mistresses and past boyfriends would be published if she weren't also revealing her father's secrets).

While most men of means devote lives to accumulating and protecting wealth, Rich wants to be known for sharing fortune with friends, loyal employees and robot maid Irona.

Hogarth's years of apprenticeship were by no means devoted exclusively to hard work, however.

"Being on the street with the gang means devoting yourself to vice, to wickedness," he admits.

In Meyer's world, that means devoted customers of the influential sort.

That means devoting considerable resources for human rights due diligence, through training, regular unannounced plant inspections, not restricted to the company's own assembly line and dedicated staff.

That means devoting substantial sums to refinancing home mortgages that might otherwise go into foreclosure, which is what the head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Sheila Bair (bless her heart!), has been urging for months.

That also means devoting more resources at home to what you want to do with those resources, right?