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    Use "dependent" in a sentence

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    dependent


    1. This means that the children are still studying and dependent, when the person retires (especially if it is an early retirement)


    2. As a technician, of course Bahkmar knew that the view rendering busses that supplied all souls eye-stream input was dependent on all objects in the field of view


    3. However, not all study and learning is dependent upon the individual


    4. A real partner wouldn't be someone so dependent and wouldn't be someone whose sensitivities she had to worry about so much


    5. That sugar, in the last analysis, can cause serious malnutrition is proved by the fact that although like alcohol, it is a quick source of energy the effects do not last and as the body becomes more and more dependent on these ‘quick lifts’ it becomes less inclined to eat nourishing food


    6. And computers … wonderful tools, but a society has been created which is so dependent on the things that, should a major catastrophe wipe them out, vast numbers of people would not have the first clue how to survive


    7. "Why are women so dependent on sexual satisfaction?" Thom asked


    8. She hasn’t been dependent on me financially for some years – she earns more than I do anyway – and when she pulled the plug on our marriage she insisted on being financially independent, seeing it as some sort of compensation for me if I didn’t have to maintain her


    9. She loved the cottage but would be dependent on public transport; she couldn’t hack the thought of two buses just to get to uni and it would be terribly difficult if she wanted to get involved in any social life


    10. Your happiness is dependent on your being aware of what you

    11. Being with him that long would have left her utterly dependent on him


    12. He wasn't talking like a wizard, but still the naive and dependent little child


    13. But though in many respects dependent upon the laws and policy, this proportion seems to be little affected by the riches or poverty of that society, by its advancing, stationary, or declining condition, but to remain the same, or very nearly the same, in all those different states


    14. Some of them became dependent on


    15. A slave, however, or one absolutely dependent on us for immediate subsistence, would not be treated in this manner


    16. Masters of all sorts, therefore, frequently make better bargains with their servants in dear than in cheap years, and find them more humble and dependent in the former than in the latter


    17. Though they lived at a distance from his house, they were equally dependent upon him as his retainers who lived in it


    18. The occupiers of land were in every respect as dependent upon the great proprietor as his retainers


    19. In a country where the surplus produce of a large estate must be consumed upon the estate itself, it will frequently be more convenient for the proprietor, that part of it be consumed at a distance from his own house, provided they who consume it are as dependent upon him as either his retainers or his menial servants


    20. A tenant at will, who possesses land sufficient to maintain his family for little more than a quit-rent, is as dependent upon the proprietor as any servant or retainer whatever, and must obey him with as little reserve

    21. Though in some measure obliged to them all, therefore, he is not absolutely dependent upon any one of them


    22. Even a tenant at will, who pays the full value of the land, is not altogether dependent upon the landlord


    23. You rent a small apartment in a run-down neighborhood, and you are dependent on a no frills 1980’s auto in so-so shape to get around in


    24. Taking into account the previous, could you go on as always, without feeling dumped on, angry, distressed, depressed, or whatever negative, violent, or other emotions that might pop up in your mind? Would this affect you just a little, somewhat, or perhaps a lot? In other words, how dependent are you on these things to have a rich and fulfilling life? More specifically, how dependent are you on external factors, as opposed to being internally centered and in tune with yourself and your loved ones to be able to feel whole, relaxed, and satisfied with your Earthly existence?


    25. The outcome of this is not dependent on me, nor is it my doing


    26. In case of any of those accidents to which no trade is more liable than theirs, they would find in their ordinary customer, the wealthy corn merchant, a person who had both an interest to support them, and the ability to do it ; and they would not, as at present, be entirely dependent upon the forbearance of their landlord, or the mercy of his steward


    27. Nonattachment is a way of living wherein you actively engage in life, but your happiness is not dependent upon the result of what you do


    28. When happiness is dependent upon the satisfaction of desire, you cannot experience the happiness that is natural to you


    29. The ability to be happy is, to a large degree, dependent


    30. This country became so dependent on the illegal work force that laws were changed and they were granted citizenship automatically after five years of residency

    31. Though the produce of his estate may be sufficient to maintain, and may, perhaps, actually maintain, more than a thousand people, yet, as those people pay for every thing which they get from him, as he gives scarce any thing to any body but in exchange for an equivalent, there is scarce anybody who considers himself as entirely dependent upon him, and his authority extends only over a few menial servants


    32. ‘It will secure you a steady career,’ her mother had said, ‘so then you will never have to be dependent on a man for your security


    33. The members of the committee of nine being all merchants, and the governors and factors in their different forts and settlements being all dependent upon them, it is not unlikely that the latter might have given peculiar attention to the consignments and commissions of the former, which would establish a real monopoly


    34. They then discovered their very lives were dependent upon the brother they had sold


    35. Each detachment was not only independent of the sovereign of the country in which it was quartered, and by which it was maintained, but dependent upon a foreign sovereign, who could at any time turn its arms against the sovereign of that particular country, and support them by the arms of all the other detachments


    36. The tenants of the clergy were, like those of the great barons, almost all tenants at will, entirely dependent upon their immediate lords, and, therefore, liable to be called out at pleasure, in order to fight in any quarrel in which the clergy might think proper to engage them


    37. She wanted her medication, even though it disgusted her to have become dependent on the chemical cosh


    38. This is just another example of numeric structure found in the Bible, but it is a level higher than the actual compositional structure of the text, but it is nevertheless fully integrated and fully dependent on the structural composition


    39. Others, without acquiring the property, obtained leases for terms of years, of the lands which they occupied under their lord, and thus became less dependent upon him


    40. 35 A continuous mist watering system would also have ensured sustained plant growth all through the year all over the earth as plants would not have been dependent on rainfall for their water

    41. "But he's still dependent on us


    42. A wife and a dependent loving child, lots of friends and a fantastic


    43. With regular and rather complex meals, little variety, little exercise and no fasting at all, the dogs system becomes toxic and most of these dogs would benefit greatly from herbal treatments that are heavily dependent on a class of herbs called alterative


    44. The one insurance policy the Darangi thought they had was Gerrid: if he was immersed and dependent on the program, he would likely face death with the threat of L-Seven-Six’s shutdown


    45. Laws are dependent on a society‘s


    46. ‖ Many individuals susceptible to teeming influences extending beyond their capacity to assimilate what is being conveyed and in what manner and why, for that matter, entirely dependent has the public become on its media ―mouthpieces‖ commissioned to do their thinking for them in a fruitless attempt at sorting out unintelligent pieces of information that, taken collectively, are even more meaningless, thereby frustrating further efforts to attain (true) knowledge while unsettling core beliefs


    47. who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them


    48. The son was as much a dependent as a caregiver


    49. Today the island's economy is utterly dependent on the US military


    50. The island is very dependent on money sent back by relatives working on the US mainland










































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    Synonyms for "dependent"

    dependant dependent drug-addicted hooked strung-out qualified subordinate subject pendant pendent secondary lesser conditional ancillary subservient relative poor indigent minor immature clinging orphan client delinquent

    "dependent" definitions

    a person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support)


    relying on or requiring a person or thing for support, supply, or what is needed


    contingent on something else


    (of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence


    held from above and hanging down


    being under the power or sovereignty of another or others


    addicted to a drug