Sentences with commit
com·mit
C c - I have never committed any crime. [VERB noun]
- There are unconfirmed reports he tried to commit suicide. [VERB noun]
- And every year, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, four times the number of men commit suicide than do women.
- Quick and easy ways to commit suicide were demonstrated by euthanasia advocate Dr Philip Nitschke at a conference in Brisbane on Saturday.
- They called on Western nations to commit more money to the poorest nations. [V n + to/for]
- I would advise people to think very carefully about committing themselves to working Sundays. [VERB pronoun-reflexive + to]
- In Victoria, at least 20 psychiatric patients commit suicide each year shortly after being discharged from hospital, while many more commit suicide later.
- It is impossible for a loved, secure person to commit a serious crime.
- It isn't their diplomatic style to commit themselves on such a delicate issue. [V pron-refl + on]
- Arthur's drinking caused him to be committed to a psychiatric hospital. [be VERB-ed + to]
- When is child pornography not child pornography? Can an 'avatar' commit a crime?
- Commit, the basic term here, implies the delivery of a person or thing into the charge or keeping of another; , entrust implies committal based on trust and confidence; , confide stresses the private nature of information entrusted to another and usually connotes intimacy of relationship; , consign suggests formal action in transferring something to another's possession or control; , relegate implies a consigning to a specific class, sphere, place, etc., esp. one of inferiority, and usually suggests the literal or figurative removal of something undesirable
- He is expected to be committed for trial at Liverpool Crown Court. [be VERB-ed + for]
- To commit a child to the care of its aunt
- To commit someone to prison
- A committed radical
- She committed the letter to the fire
- We commit his fame to posterity
- committed to prison
- To commit something to the trash heap
- committed to the struggle
- To commit oneself on an issue
- To commit ideas to writing; to commit a poem to memory.
- Asked if he was a candidate, he refused to commit himself.
- To commit oneself to a promise; to be committed to a course of action.
- To commit one's soul to God.
- To commit murder; to commit an error.
- To commit a delinquent to a reformatory.
- He was committed on the certificate of two psychiatrists.
- To commit a manuscript to the flames.
- The commander has committed all his troops to the front lines.
- An athlete who commits to the highest standards.