How to Use resolve in a Sentence

resolve

1 of 2 verb
  • He resolved that he would start dating again.
  • She resolved to quit smoking.
  • The issue of the book's authorship was never resolved.
  • The committee resolved to override the veto.
  • They haven't been able to resolve their differences.
  • His speech did nothing to resolve doubts about the company's future.
  • The brothers finally resolved their conflict.
  • There were the twin scandals, yet to be resolved by the NCAA.
    Laine Higgins, WSJ, 2 Jan. 2024
  • His lawyers had warned him that the case could take a decade in all to resolve.
    New York Times, 2 Mar. 2022
  • That will require the issue to be resolved in the courts.
    David Cole, The New York Review of Books, 30 Apr. 2020
  • One visit to the front desk and the matter was resolved.
    Sarah Firshein, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Feb. 2020
  • At the same time, there is no denying the risk of staying the course if the strikes aren’t resolved.
    Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Raise a toast to the end, and resolve to let time do its magic, to heal this loss.
    Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 30 Dec. 2020
  • To me, grit is courage and resolve, even in the darkest moments.
    Mike Lee, Quartz at Work, 20 Nov. 2019
  • Much of the work to resolve the issue is happening in the dark.
    BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2021
  • The shift to a back four helped Portland resolve some of those issues.
    Portland Timbers and Thorns Fc, oregonlive, 3 July 2021
  • The worst case would be if the budget impasse can't be resolved.
    Suzanne Baker, Naperville Sun, 3 June 2017
  • To heal our wounds, to forgive, to resolve that the page has been turned, to trust each other.
    Fox News, 27 June 2020
  • Its people are awake to its needs, and are resolved to meet them.
    Roger Showley, sandiegouniontribune.com, 1 Apr. 2018
  • And so that is an issue that the court very much wants to try to resolve those disputes.
    James Brown, USA TODAY, 26 June 2022
  • But all was resolved (and forgiven) by the end of the reunion when the cast hugged it out.
    Louis Staples, Rolling Stone, 24 Dec. 2023
  • At least one big mystery seems to be on the verge of being resolved.
    Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 14 Apr. 2023
  • The fiction of a proper name would evade the dilemma, not resolve it.
    Longreads, 20 July 2019
  • The high court will likely have to resolve that conflict.
    Greg Moran, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Sep. 2020
  • To heal our wounds, to forgive, to resolve that a page has been turned, to trust each other.
    NBC News, 27 June 2020
  • The secretary of state said this would take a couple of weeks to resolve.
    David Meyer, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2020
  • Once that question was resolved, the case returned to the lower courts.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 25 May 2023
  • But although Pratt is now back on U.S. soil, his case is yet to be resolved.
    Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2024
  • No problem was so tricky that it couldn’t be resolved in a half-hour time slot.
    Jeff Lipsky, HWD, 14 June 2018
  • The teacher also told the class that, forty-five years into the future, there would be a total eclipse visible from England, and Close resolved to see it.
    Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2024
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resolve

2 of 2 noun
  • His comments were intended to weaken her resolve but they only served to strengthen it.
  • Does the west have the resolve to stand up to Putin right now?
    NBC News, 1 Apr. 2018
  • But Jean’s eyes had grown rigid in her skull as the chill of resolve took hold.
    Hannah Gold, Harper’s Magazine , 26 Oct. 2022
  • That resolve will face some tough tests over the next year or so.
    Gwynn Guilford, Quartz, 18 Oct. 2019
  • The eight songs on the EP are just bursting with your new resolve, right?
    Billboard Japan, Billboard, 7 Oct. 2022
  • The shock of the first days of the war have settled into a quiet resolve.
    Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2022
  • Each side in the strikes is looking for cracks in the other’s resolve.
    Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2023
  • The flight deepened her resolve to bring space down to earth.
    Diane Bell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Her resolve was a reminder of how things could be so much worse, a slap in the face.
    Josh Dean, Esquire, 15 Feb. 2017
  • That could test the resolve of the hundreds of reservists who have vowed to stay away.
    Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Aug. 2023
  • But Hamas has been careful to stress its resolve to keep up the fight.
    Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2021
  • Gore said the same kind of resolve is needed for the climate change cause.
    Mike Cason, AL.com, 27 Apr. 2018
  • As the sit-in campaign grew, the movement found its resolve.
    Lucia Cheng, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2022
  • But even as the emotion is raw, the resolve to move forward is strong.
    NBC News, 24 Oct. 2019
  • And to make sure that ‘never again,’ are words of action and resolve.
    Anthony Man, Sun-Sentinel.com, 4 Mar. 2018
  • My resolve soon began to slacken as burnout licked at the edges of my will.
    Kyle Meyaard-Schaap, CNN, 30 Apr. 2021
  • When a guard threatened to shoot, the group backed off and Ms. Stafford felt her resolve deflate.
    Lynsey Chutel Gulshan Khan, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2023
  • Gut isn’t surprised at the courage and resolve of Ukrainians.
    Ray Sanchez, CNN, 6 Mar. 2022
  • His resolve didn’t soften even when Ms. Mayes came out to her parents in the mid-1990s.
    Tammy Lagorce, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2023
  • In Asia, the market is testing the Bank of Japan's resolve, by pushing up bond yields.
    WSJ, 13 Jan. 2023
  • But those years of enslavement brought him to a greater resolve.
    Brenda Yenke, cleveland.com, 15 Mar. 2018
  • To have the season resolve in that way was very apropos and lovely.
    Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 29 June 2023
  • That this was even a close game in the first place, though, was a testament to Dobson’s resolve.
    Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 4 Mar. 2023
  • There’s no point at all in a demonstration of your resolve.
    Isaac Chotiner, Slate Magazine, 4 Aug. 2017
  • Butler’s resolve will be tested for the umpteenth time.
    David Woods, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Feb. 2022
  • At least a Max death might give Eugene some steel resolve.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
  • That could bolster the Fed's resolve to act at its meeting this week.
    Julia Horowitz, CNN, 31 Oct. 2021
  • The difference is an even greater resolve to finish the job.
    Nathan Baird, cleveland, 28 July 2022
  • Years of walking into spaces designed for men had steeled me for this moment and ignited my resolve to dominate the table.
    Julia Rafal-Baer, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
  • That’s when Monson told his players that everyone doubted them, sparking a resolve to back the coach who treated them just like the son who was a walk-on guard and the older son who was a graduate assistant.
    Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2024

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