How to Use solve in a Sentence

solve

verb
Definition of solvenext
Synonyms for solvenext
  • If they'll lend us the money we need, all our problems will be solved.
  • And people have been trying to solve this in all kinds of ways.
    — Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 20 Mar. 2024
  • If that case could be solved after so long, why not Ann’s?
    — Veronica Fulton, NBC News, 10 Sep. 2023
  • But this is only half of the problem that needs solving.
    — Peter Guest, WIRED, 16 Feb. 2024
  • What’s next on the road to solving one of mankind's oldest riddles?
    — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 27 June 2024
  • For many readers, Finnegans Wake isn’t a text to master or a puzzle to solve.
    — Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Aren’t these the very problems Obamacare was supposed to solve?
    — John C. Goodman, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • With that mystery solved, Lee moved on to give us the skinny about that buzzy butter.
    — Karla Walsh, Southern Living, 18 Dec. 2023
  • This is a problem that is not going to be solved by putting guards on the border or barbed wire.
    — Albinson Linares, NBC News, 3 Apr. 2024
  • How about Robin Roberts helping to solve a mystery ripped from the headlines?
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 19 Sep. 2023
  • But short-term injection of cash won’t solve the Haitian crisis alone.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 5 June 2024
  • The inflation pack solves the problem of bringing a heavy pump in your pack and makes the setup faster.
    — Max Inchausti, Field & Stream, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Apple hopes that its new app will solve these problems.
    — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Apr. 2023
  • The world record for a robot solving a Rubik’s Cube was set at one minute and four seconds in 2009.
    — Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 May 2024
  • And that would be the opposite of solving this problem.
    — John Blackstone, CBS News, 2 June 2024
  • The key is to create products that solve real problems.
    — Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 29 Aug. 2023
  • If the case can’t be solved, it could be forwarded to detectives.
    — Brianna Taylor, Sacramento Bee, 5 June 2024
  • After their last meeting, Anthony Davis said the Nuggets do the same thing to the Lakers over and over and the team has been unable to solve it.
    — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2024
  • That way, problems are more likely to be solved—and feelings are less likely to be hurt.
    — Jenna Ryu, SELF, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Many will choose to work to solve those problems in the private sector, at startups or tech giants.
    — Jennifer Pahlka, WIRED, 8 Jan. 2024
  • And making sense of the sound becomes an important problem to solve.
    — Charlotte Hu, Popular Science, 24 Apr. 2023
  • In their 20s, the Horwath girls became more involved in trying to solve their mother’s case.
    — Veronica Fulton, NBC News, 1 Oct. 2023
  • But the frenzy may feed into the very same culture of consumption some people use it to solve for.
    — Samhita Mukhopadhyay, Bon Appétit, 21 Dec. 2023
  • The trainer, the report said, said that problem would have been solved had the officer shot sooner.
    — Richard Ruelas, The Arizona Republic, 14 June 2024
  • The method may solve a bottleneck to using A*, which is that the method requires a lot of computing power.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 27 Feb. 2024
  • And the assignments always aim to solve a local problem.
    — Dionne Searcey, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Somewhere out there, though, is a product that seems pointless to me but gives you zaps of joy by solving a tiny problem.
    — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2023
  • But scientists don’t know how, when or why the sulfur formed on Mars, creating a new riddle for the rover’s team to solve.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 20 July 2024
  • Her rival Chloe, bad boy Rory and quarterback boyfriend Smith must all team up to solve the mystery — with lots of hijinks in the meantime.
    — Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 19 July 2024
  • His murder has not been solved, and Hezbollah denies involvement.
    — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024

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