Sentence examples for they devoted themselves to from inspiring English sources

Again, like the Ionians, they devoted themselves to astronomical and geometrical speculation.

In between times, they devoted themselves to appropriate "recreation" and convent positions of responsibility.

They devoted themselves to contemplation and were expected to maintain the highest moral standards.

Together they devoted themselves to the education of their two daughters.

They devoted themselves to scientific research, to patient care, to law reform and human rights.

Here they devoted themselves to Merlin and to the cafe society that sustained it.

Rarely leaving the premises, they devote themselves to prayer, and they don't talk except during two recreation periods per day.

They devote themselves to helping her though treatment, also guiding their Shakespeare-spouting but otherwise ineffectual father through this terrible time.

What's most important is the psychological moment – that once they are playing they devote themselves to the team, and not to self-promotion".

As with any good detective story, there's a driving narrative behind the puzzle, peopled by solitary sleuths who allow marital problems or bills to stack up as they devote themselves to the hunt.

Not a heaven with angels, but one populated by the abstract objects they devote themselves to studying: perfect spheres, infinite numbers, the square root of minus one and the like.