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How to use the word discovers in a Sentence?

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It was not easy parting with the coin, after all, it is not every day one discovers such an amazing object, but I hope I will see it displayed in a museum in the near future.

Laurie Rimon

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It was not easy parting with the coin, after all, it is not every day one discovers such an amazing object, but I hope I will see it displayed in a museum in the near future. Related : Archaeologists discover ancient Anglo-Saxon island in UK countryside It was quickly determined this was not just any coin. It dates to 107 AD and was part of a series of nostalgic coins that Emperor Trajan minted and dedicated to the Roman emperors that ruled before Emperor Trajan. The only other coin of this kind is believed to be the one held by the British Museum. Two other gold coins of this emperor have been registered in the State Treasures, one from Giv ‘ at Shaul near Jerusalem, and the other from the Qiryat Gat region, Donald T. Ariel, head curator of the coin department at the Israel Antiquities Authority, said in a statement. But the details on both are different to those that appear on the coin found by Rimon.

Laurie Rimon

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

As voters you have reasons to doubt the credibility of the promises of a political candidate who discovers the issue after he announces for president.

Donald Trump

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

It's not an indication of a personality characteristic, a wife discovers her husband is into Asian bondage stuff. ' Is that who he is ? Is he a kinky person ? I don't know him anymore !'.

Ian Kerner

Found on CNN
8 years ago

A wife discovers her husband is into Asian bondage stuff. ' Is that who he is ? Is he a kinky person ? I don't know him anymore !' we have a hard-wired desire for variety. Porn allows you to scratch that itch without physically cheating on your partner.

Dan Savage

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I would warn anyone who is considering strategically amputating Greece from Europe because this is very dangerous, who will be next after us? Portugal? What will happen when Italy discovers it is impossible to remain inside the straitjacket of austerity?

Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.

Norman Mailer

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9 years ago

Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.

Elias Canetti

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great.

Edgar Quinet

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10 years ago

Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.

Norman Douglas

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10 years ago

The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.

Pearl S. Buck

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10 years ago

Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that his pen accomplishes a lot more than his soul.

Joseph Brodsky

added by anonymous
10 years ago

A poor man will be poor until the day he discovers that thinking doesn’t cost anything.

Arber Doci

added by anonymous
11 years ago

A school cannot exist as a permanent form of education. It can only exist until the student discovers that they can learn more themselves from the real world. From that moment on the majority always look for the most promising place the highest wisdom outside of school, with the result of schooling always collapsing over lifes education.

Paul. F. Meekin

added by anonymous
12 years ago

Marriage is based on the theory that when man discovers a brand of beer exactly to his taste he should at once throw up his job and go work in the brewery.

George Jean Nathan

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The glory of friendship is not the outstreched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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13 years ago

From error to error one discovers the entire truth.

Sigmund Freud

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13 years ago

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

James Allen

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13 years ago

There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

Douglas Adams

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Man merely discovers' he never can and never will invent.

Kahlil Gibran

added by anonymous
14 years ago

A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.

Peter McArthur

added by anonymous
14 years ago

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

Sren Aaby Kierkegaard

added by anonymous
14 years ago

On the touchstone of misfortune a man discovers the strength of understanding and of spirit in kinsmen, wife, servants, and himself.

The Hitopadesa

added by anonymous
14 years ago

He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.

M. C. Escher

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14 years ago

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