Sentence examples for he began devoting from inspiring English sources

When he retired at 55, he began devoting himself full time to painting.

He worked as a consultant in music, television and publishing for McKinsey & Company until 2003, when he began devoting more time to his writing.

To make a living, he began devoting more time to portraits and in 1986 a curator introduced him to the comedian Bill Cosby.

In 1991, he retired, and, as he wrote in a Harvard alumni publication, he began devoting himself to "the intricate and complicated job of running my grandfather James Joyce's literary estate".

In 1894 he began devoting half his time to the curatorship in anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History, New York City, and was influential in dispatching the productive Jesup North Pacific Expedition to northeastern Asia and northwestern North America.

And when she began devoting herself to finding work a few months later, a tight job market proved difficult to penetrate.

Three decades ago they began devoting a large part of the proceeds of the country's high tax regime to financing music education and providing subsidies for composers and performers.

He promptly began devoting the extra time off to what he described as an obsession -- coaching basketball.

Calvin and Hobbes was conceived when Bill Watterson, working in an advertising job he detested, began devoting his spare time to cartooning, his true love.

After a decade-long focus on civil cases involving medical malpractice and personal injury, David, in 1994, began devoting a large part of his practice, which he runs out of the family home in Great Neck, to his father, representing him in both criminal and civil matters.

In the past 18 months Mr. Gyllenhaal parted ways with his longtime manager, signed with a new agency and began devoting more time to selecting and preparing for projects.