Sentence examples for to compounds it from inspiring English sources

Although the law of constant proportions has not survived the discovery of Berthollides and more careful analyses of solutions showed that chemical combination or affinity is not confined to compounds, it gave chemists a principled way of studying how elements combine to form compounds through the 19th century.

The objects have an executive-toy look, and rather than erasing their menace, that seems to compound it.

Granted, the Traveling Wilburys comparison is glib, but to compound it a little, consider this: for the group, Jim James is calling himself Yim Yames, for reasons unclear.

The stupidity of the decision to call a referendum on a major issue – and to compound it by the suspension of collective responsibility – will come to a head when parliament is called upon to implement the result by legislation.

"And to compound it I did a stupid thing: I described Clybourne in the way that I just did to a journalist who had been part of the committee that awarded Bruce the Pulitzer.

Palace's shoddy marking suggested that their victory over Peterborough on the last day of the regular season had not been enough to shake off the sloppiness that has afflicted them in recent months – indeed, nervousness seemed to compound it.

Her book, which is part memoir and part treatise, argues that the United States has a tendency not just to ignore international corruption but to compound it, and that in places like Afghanistan this willful ignorance can be destabilizing and dangerous.

Some of my favourite flowers are pink, but none of ← them is combined with hard, shiny green leaves and, to compound it, centred with a boss of bright yellow stamens.

To compound it, the Spaniard thwarted Berahino again a few moments later.

"We just need to compound it by winning the remainder of our games.

Sale director of rugby Steve Diamond: "What's happened with London Welsh is good fortune for us in one respect, but we just need to compound it by winning the remainder of our games.