conduce

Example Sentences

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Russia, and China joined forces – to declare the Ebola outbreak in Africa a threat to world peace and security, and conduce a universal proposition.

From Fox News • Apr. 16, 2020

Does the conditioning environment of suburbia conduce a sense of well-being and life adjustment?

From Slate • May 1, 2016

Golf rounds are slow and baseball games borderline endless, but the actual moments of play are comparatively brief and highly focussed; like faster, reflex-reliant sports—basketball, soccer, ice hockey—they do not conduce to abstract thinking.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 3, 2015

I resolved, therefore, that if my immediate union with my cousin would conduce either to hers or my father’s happiness, my adversary’s designs against my life should not retard it a single hour.

From "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley

During the meal, the solicitude of the family to see that we lacked nothing that would conduce to our comfort was almost embarrassing.

From The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza by Boyd, Mary Stuart