Definition: 1. Make a proposal, declare a plan for something. 2. Present for consideration. 3. Propose or intend. 4. Put forward; nominate for appointment to an office. 5. Ask (someone) to marry you.
Use 'propose' in a sentence:
1. How do you propose getting home?
2. The proposed increase in income tax proved deeply unpopular with the electorate.
3. He proposed a model of stress reaction in the body.
4. Some propose storing the CO2 in coal mines or liquid storage in the ocean.
5. She proposed that the book should be banned.
6. If you're truly horrified by the budget deficit, why not propose tax increases as part of the solution?
7. In the UK it's traditional for the father of the bride to propose a toast.
8. Britain is about to propose changes to some institutions.
9. Given the amount of time we spend in classrooms, and the number of shoes that pass through them every day, you may well understand me if I were to propose a no-shoes-in-the-classroom rule.
10. We propose a name for the protein products (heregulins) derived from it.
11. For group decision-making to work well, you need a way to sort through the various options they propose: and you need a mechanism to narrow down these options.
12. Scientists therefore propose using sunflowers for decontamination wherever there are radioactively contaminated ponds.
13. He was the first person to propose the construction of the bridge.
14. Instead of a hardwired network of signs, they propose to use mobile-phone applications.
15. We propose to deliver 50% in June and the balance in Aug.
16. Women are allowed to break with tradition and propose to their boyfriends on this day.
17. And where do you propose building such a huge thing?
18. She proposed to me!
19. The size of the loan I ask for, or the type of business I propose.
20. Yes, I will propose it; 'twas a happy accident that I did not throw the chance away.
21. I propose Tom Ellis for chairman.
22. The report proposes that students be allowed to work off their debt through community service.
23. The answer we'll propose of course is that their behavior is largely a matter of natural selection.
24. One is randomly chosen to propose how a sum of money, known to both, should be shared between them; only one offer, which must be accepted or rejected without negotiation, is allowed.
25. The workers staged a protest against the proposed changes in their contracts.
26. He proposes that businesses should pay taxes to the federal government.
27. We propose a second decimation algorithm for widening the range of sweep width in the AD9874 based digital receiver.
28. He proposed a new diplomatic initiative to try to stop the war.
29. I propose a toast to the friendship between the peoples of the two countries.
30. I would propose that scientific archeological expeditions and governmental authorities sell excavated artifacts on the open market.
31. She proposed that the book be banned.
32. Nobody would assent to the terms they proposed.
33. I'd like to propose a toast to the bride and groom.
34. Lavalais raised his glass to propose a toast to the newlyweds.
35. Over 50% of those polled were against the proposed military action.
36. Your application must be proposed and seconded by current members.
37. If they want to change an item in the budget, they will have to propose equivalent cuts elsewhere.
38. Please propose amendments and addenda to the first draft of the document.
39. I would like to propose a vote of thanks to our host.
40. It was proposed that the president be elected for a period of two years.
41. What would you propose?
42. The government proposed changes to the voting system.
43. He accepted all the changes we proposed.
44. What do you propose to do now?
45. The revelations gave new fuel to angry opponents of the proposed law.
46. The company has locked horns with the unions over proposed pay cuts.
47. The union balloted its members on the proposed changes.
48. It was an easier thing to propose than to accomplish.
49. The architect had produced a scale model of the proposed shopping complex.
50. She proposed a possible solution to the mystery.
51. There is widespread discontent among the staff at the proposed changes to pay and conditions.
