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  • The Slabs functions as the seasonal capital of a teeming itinerant society, a tolerant, rubber-tired culture comprising the retired, the exiled, the destitute, the perpetually unemployed.  (source)
    comprising = consisting of (made up of)
  • Each colony is a family unit, comprising a single, egg-laying female or queen and her many sterile daughters called workers.  (source)
  • Most of Illea is comprised of these lower castes, and we have overlooked these people far too long.  (source)
    comprised = consists of (is made up of)
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  • Nadia's flat comprised a studio room with an alcove kitchenette and a bathroom so small that showering without drenching the commode was impossible.  (source)
    comprised = consisted of (was made up of)
  • My days are inconsequential, comprising simple moments and even simpler pleasures.  (source)
    comprising = consisting of (made up of)
  • The six strains that comprise the Fortunate Fields breeding program represent thoroughly researched bloodlines.†  (source)
  • But the grotto itself comprises its own slick universe, and inside this universe spin countless galaxies: here, in the upturned half of a single mussel shell, lives a barnacle and a tiny spindle shell occupied by a still smaller hermit crab.  (source)
    comprises = includes
  • The entirety of the new city thus far comprised three buildings.  (source)
    comprised = consists of (was made up of)
  • A thin circlet comprising dangling gold and jewels crowned her head.†  (source)
  • A long plank and tubular chairs comprise a makeshift table, on top of which are scattered take-out pizza boxes, the thermos jar of coffee, paper cups, sheet music, a small tape recorder, and saxophone reeds.†  (source)
  • In Newspeak it is called doublethink, though doublethink comprises much else as well.  (source)
    comprises = includes
  • They knew that the panel was comprised of some impressive judges.  (source)
    comprised = composed (made up)
  • Alongside them were white oaks, beeches, maples, walnuts, sycamores, birches, willows, cedars, pines, and hemlocks, all enmeshed in a lattice of wild grapevine, comprising one of the greatest assortment of forest trees in the Northern Hemisphere.†  (source)
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