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How to use the word consisted in a Sentence?

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It was extremely difficult to get the additional air assets into the Bull Lake valley due to very poor weather conditions which consisted of rain, low visibility, and low ceiling.

Lincoln County Sheriff Office

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The rifles consisted of the lower receiver and bolt carrier group, i did not recognize them when they were pulled out because they were wrapped like a mummy.

Duane Smith

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

… There was so much decomposition and there was nothing, but bones left, she was skeletonized basically … But I think based on the crime scene, what it looked like and what items were recovered — it was pretty consisted with her having been murdered at that site.

Joe McCann

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I think if there is a party that needs to apologize, it is not us, those who violated our airspace are the ones who need to apologize. Our pilots and our armed forces, they simply fulfilled their duties, which consisted of responding to... violations of the rules of engagement. I think this is the essence.

The President

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I think if there is a party that needs to apologize, it is not us, those who violated our airspace are the ones who need to apologize. Our pilots and our armed forces, they simply fulfilled their duties, which consisted of responding to ... violations of the rules of engagement. I think this is the essence.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Our inspectors physically look at a sample of cars; the size of the sample is based on the company fleet. For a company this size, our inspector typically conducts inspections on five vehicles, which was what the 2012 inspection consisted of.

The Times

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The proposal represents a more balanced approach than previous ones that mostly consisted of revenue measures, this proposal addresses the persistent increase in expenditures over the years.

Analyst Mauro Leos

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

My appeal board consisted of one very flamboyant male teacher and the head of the inclusiveness and diversity department, it wasn’t a very unbiased board at all that heard my case.

Harry Vincent

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

In the 18th century we did not make cakes. Desserts consisted of doughnuts, strudels and ice cream, cake confectionaries followed the Vienna Congress in 1815. The Austrian monarchy started employing Hungarians, Bohemians, Italian and French and created a unique mixture.

Dietmar Muthenthaler

Found on CNN
9 years ago

If happiness truly consisted of physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow.

William Lyon Phelps

added by anonymous
13 years ago

After I asked him what he meant, he replied that freedom consisted of the unimpeded right to get rich, to use his ability, no matter what the cost to others, to win advancement.

Norman Thomas

added by anonymous
14 years ago

In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.

Brooks Atkinson

added by anonymous
14 years ago

As an adolescent ... I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so.

Charles De Gaulle

added by anonymous
14 years ago

As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices take it, or leave it.

Buddy Hackett

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14 years ago

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