How to Use devote to in a Sentence

devote to

phrasal verb

• There are now 90 stand-alone shops devoted to menswear around the world.
  — Rhonda Richford, WWD, 11 Dec. 2024
• That’s a beautiful love song, devoted to George and the rest of the kids that have been sent away.
  — Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 4 Nov. 2024
• The amount of time the broadcast devotes to daily news coming out of D.C. has been reduced.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 13 Feb. 2025
• The center is the only one of its kind at the CIA, devoted to a single country.
  — Shane Harris, The Atlantic, 17 Jan. 2025
• One episode is devoted to giving Bell the space to share his story.
  — Moises Mendez Ii, TIME, 1 May 2024
• At the center is a large shrine devoted to the Hindu goddess Kali.
  — Kira Wakeam, NPR, 31 Jan. 2025
• While a lot of the pre-release buzz on the movie has been devoted to the cameos, Reynolds dropped an even bigger bombshell about his first plan for the film.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 25 July 2024
• Gladstone said Rothschild was in his late 70s and devoted to his dog, an Afghan hound.
  — Daniel Miller Los Angeles Times (tns), arkansasonline.com, 30 Nov. 2024
• The left side of the store is devoted to comics galore while the right is taken up by a vast array of collectibles, video games, movies and more.
  — Daniel McFadin, Arkansas Online, 16 July 2023
• But in the end, the dearth of box sets devoted to contemporary artists could be akin to the stigma of the Lifetime Achievement Award.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 10 Jan. 2025
• There will also be seating, along with a small area devoted to the history of the pier, the Midway and San Diego Bay.
  — Lori Weisberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Feb. 2024
• The first day of the trial will be mainly devoted to opening statements.
  — Adi Robertson, The Verge, 12 Sep. 2023
• Carrie hasn’t had the time to devote to a relationship with you because of her schooling and her job.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 18 July 2023
• After all, this is why so much effort has been devoted to working and saving over the years.
  — Andrew Rosen, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2024
• Like the fact that, since the platform’s founding, the share of all sports coverage devoted to women’s sports has increased from 4% to 16%.
  — Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2024
• From there, the remainder of the crew members’ time will be devoted to preparing for the journey home.
  — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 12 Sep. 2024
• Since seeing Medrano’s tweet, she’s managed to carve out an extra 20 hours of her week to devote to Swifties 4 Kamala.
  — Sam Reed, Glamour, 2 Oct. 2024
• Even so, a lack of public funds’ being devoted to water issues around the world will do little to solve the problem.
  — David Hodari, NBC News, 17 Oct. 2024
• Of that total, at least $250 million will be devoted to Inside Safe.
  — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2023
• His whole offseason was devoted to making his mind and body stronger.
  — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2024
• Anyway, this is a presidential election year and your paper doesn’t seem to have the space to devote to something called Project 2025.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 20 July 2024
• In 2015 the Hollywood talent agency UTA opened a division devoted to fine art, the first of its kind.
  — Natasha Degen, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2024
• The early weeks in the writers’ room were devoted to developing the rules of this new food society.
  — Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 12 July 2024
• The Seaquarium opened in 1955 overlooking Biscayne Bay and was among the first theme parks devoted to marine life.
  — Freida Frisaro, Fortune, 7 Mar. 2024
• Harrow, one of the main characters, is a nun devoted to John’s necromantic death cult.
  — Constance Grady, Vox, 4 Nov. 2024
• Well, there is a need to, but pretty much every hour of the day is devoted to getting healthy and not necessarily in the meetings.
  — Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2024
• Esteban’s deep, dark secret doesn’t feel shocking enough for all the time devoted to building it up.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2024
• Each had its own research teams or companies devoted to it.
  — James Somers, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
• The more time users devote to these platforms the more advertising market share the social media giant can grab.
  — Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 23 Sep. 2024
• Kitchen renovations were found to have the longest timeline last year, with 9.6 months devoted to planning and 5.1 months to building, on average, according to the report.
  — Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 5 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 6 Mar 2025