"The enlarging mirrors of our telescopes," he writes, "comprise material forged at the centers of the same generation of stars they now record".
The people who write "comprised of" are confusing "comprise" with "compose".
These animals, Cobo later wrote, comprised "all the wealth of the mountain Indians".
They would have been perceived as a cool tonic by my mother, whose own religious conversion occurred at Townville Baptist Church when she was 14, but for whom literature and writing comprised a sort of separate peace, located somewhere beyond the pale of her faith.
"We designed a semi-anechoic chamber for [Ravel Ravel]," writes Norton, "comprised of 1600 individual pieces of melamine foam that are suspended on cables lining the gallery walls".
Chatu Vitthalanatha, who flourished as a court poet of King Krishnadeva Raya and his successor King Achyuta Raya, was the first to translate the Bhagavata into Kannada in a voluminous writing comprising 12,247 stanzas divided into 280 sections.
This very sentence I am writing is comprised of a string of words, defined by Webster's as as "a tautly wound cord of something that can be tautly wound".
When Canada was born in 1867 and its first constitution written, Toronto comprised some 50,000 citizens; today the Greater Toronto Area is home to 4.6m people, and may be the most cosmopolitan metropolis on the planet.
Dundee's written examinations comprised of multiple choice questions.
The written examination comprises practical tasks pertaining to economics and social studies, as well as commercial management and control, together with situational tasks that take the form of case studies related to business processes.
