Sentence examples for devoted himself to preparing from inspiring English sources

The following year he settled near Warsaw and devoted himself to preparing his collected works and to organizing a Jewish ethnographic society.

But Strahan had already slimmed down from his playing days and had devoted himself to preparing for his new television role.

Returning to Paris, he devoted himself to preparing his two dissertations for the doctorate in literature: De Personis Platonicis ("Concerning Plato's Characters") and his first well-known work, a study of La Fontaine (1853; revised and published in 1861 as La Fontaine et ses fables ["La Fontaine and His Fables"]).

After his vocal cord surgery, Mr. Klugman was prepared to devote himself to raising racehorses, a longtime side pursuit; one of his horses, Jaklin Klugman, finished third in the 1980 Kentucky Derby.

Washington has devoted years to preparing the case against him.

Much of his book is devoted to preparing and presenting that argument; much of the rest is devoted to asking what kinds of mind animals and babies might have if they don't have the inferentialist/language of thought kind.

Saturday was a day devoted to preparing for the fourth-seeded Wisconsin Badgers.

"Harvard has a whole office devoted to preparing applicants for the Rhodes and Marshall scholarships".

In Catholic Christianity, great care is devoted to preparing for a "good death".

But at 19, he would be staying on for two years devoted to preparing for adult life.

The issue, which she was calling the "pre-apocalypse issue," was devoted "to preparing for the worst".