How to Use resolve in a Sentence

resolve

1 of 2 verb
Definition of resolvenext
Synonyms for resolvenext
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Much of the work to resolve the issue is happening in the dark.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2021
  • At least one big mystery seems to be on the verge of being resolved.
    — Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 14 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • The high court will likely have to resolve that conflict.
    — Greg Moran, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Sep. 2020
  • The worst case would be if the budget impasse can't be resolved.
    — Suzanne Baker, Naperville Sun, 3 June 2017
  • Its people are awake to its needs, and are resolved to meet them.
    — Roger Showley, sandiegouniontribune.com, 1 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • The secretary of state said this would take a couple of weeks to resolve.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2020
  • 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
  • The fiction of a proper name would evade the dilemma, not resolve it.
    — Longreads, 20 July 2019
  • The shift to a back four helped Portland resolve some of those issues.
    — Portland Timbers and Thorns Fc, oregonlive, 3 July 2021
  • Here are some common disputes and ways to resolve them.
    — Devorah Blachor, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Once that question was resolved, the case returned to the lower courts.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 25 May 2023
  • This is a grating tension in the episode that cannot be neatly resolved.
    — Roxane Gay, Glamour, 1 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • Even resolved to use some of this homeschool time to teach fly tying with his kids.
    — Christine Peterson, Outdoor Life, 24 Mar. 2020
  • Each woman artist needs to resolve this conflict in her own way.
    — Antonia Hitchens, WSJ, 4 May 2021
  • But when the time arrived in fact no part of her catastrophe had been resolved.
    — Susan Choi, Harper's magazine, 6 Jan. 2020
  • But the project helped us figure out how to resolve arguments.
    — Urmila Ramakrishnan, SFChronicle.com, 7 June 2019
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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
  • That resolve will face some tough tests over the next year or so.
    — Gwynn Guilford, Quartz, 18 Oct. 2019
  • The flight deepened her resolve to bring space down to earth.
    — Diane Bell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Apr. 2023
  • The shock of the first days of the war have settled into a quiet resolve.
    — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • Gore said the same kind of resolve is needed for the climate change cause.
    — Mike Cason, AL.com, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Each side in the strikes is looking for cracks in the other’s resolve.
    — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 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
  • My resolve soon began to slacken as burnout licked at the edges of my will.
    — Kyle Meyaard-Schaap, CNN, 30 Apr. 2021
  • But even as the emotion is raw, the resolve to move forward is strong.
    — NBC News, 24 Oct. 2019
  • 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
  • But Hamas has been careful to stress its resolve to keep up the fight.
    — Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2021
  • As the sit-in campaign grew, the movement found its resolve.
    — Lucia Cheng, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2022
  • 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
  • The difference is an even greater resolve to finish the job.
    — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 28 July 2022
  • Butler’s resolve will be tested for the umpteenth time.
    — David Woods, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Feb. 2022
  • There’s no point at all in a demonstration of your resolve.
    — Isaac Chotiner, Slate Magazine, 4 Aug. 2017
  • Perhaps we were built to seek answers that have no resolve.
    — Matt Miller, Esquire, 7 Oct. 2016
  • But the new rule is just the latest development to wear away at that resolve.
    — Dara Lind, ProPublica, 22 July 2019
  • But this team sees its sturdy resolve as one of its biggest strengths.
    — Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 23 Sep. 2022
  • The eight songs on the EP are just bursting with your new resolve, right?
    — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 7 Oct. 2022
  • But plenty of investors aren’t showing the same sort of resolve.
    — Gunjan Banerji, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2022
  • And to make sure that ‘never again,’ are words of action and resolve.
    — Anthony Man, Sun-Sentinel.com, 4 Mar. 2018
  • Gut isn’t surprised at the courage and resolve of Ukrainians.
    — Ray Sanchez, CNN, 6 Mar. 2022
  • But the need for more answers has hardened into resolve.
    — Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2021
  • That lesson helped steel her resolve to rebuff pressure to go along just to get along.
    — Mary Jo Pitzl, The Arizona Republic, 13 July 2022
  • That could bolster the Fed's resolve to act at its meeting this week.
    — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 31 Oct. 2021
  • But our guys showed great grit, great toughness, great resolve throughout the week.
    — Josh Robbins, OrlandoSentinel.com, 14 July 2018

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