Sentences with contain
con·tain
C c - The bag contained a Christmas card. [VERB noun]
- Greek yogurt contains much less fat than double cream. [VERB noun]
- Nsw authorities ban a popular craft toy after its beads were found to contain the toxic drug GHB, or fantasy.
- The Joe Griffin barge carrying the containment box which will be used to try to contain the Deepwater Horizon oil spill sits in the Gulf of Mexigo.
- This sheet contained a list of problems a patient might like to raise with the doctor. [VERB noun]
- The committee contains 11 Democrats and nine Republicans. [VERB noun]
- Masterfoods in Britain recently announced that Mars Bars would now contain animal product.
- Business cards are used to contain the information of a particular person or company.
- More than a hundred firemen are still trying to contain the fire at the plant. [VERB noun]
- But he was bursting with curiosity, and one day he just couldn't contain himself. 'What are you going to do?' he asked. [VERB pronoun-reflexive]
- Some Indonesian soups contain ingredients you can only get in Indonesia but there.
- Contain, in strict usage, signifies an enclosing within or including as a component, part, or fraction, and , hold1, the capacity for containing [the bottle contains two ounces of liquid, but it holds a pint]; to accommodate is to hold comfortably without crowding [an elevator built to accommodate twelve people]
- This contains five pints
- The book contains three different sections
- 6 contains 2 and 3
- The can contains tea, the list contains 50 items
- A gallon contains four quarts
- 10 contains 5 and 2
- Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.
- I'm so excited, I can hardly contain myself!
- A group contains a unique inverse for each of its elements. If that subgraph contains the vertex in question then it must be spanning.
- This glass contains water. This paddock contains our best horses.
- The room will contain 75 persons safely.
- He could not contain his amusement.
- To contain an epidemic.
- Efforts to contain water pollution.
- Ten contains five.
- A quart contains two pints.