- present tense form of consist (3rd person singular).
consists
Example Sentences
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At issue is whether that ruling applies to Moore, whose prison term consists of multiple sentences stacked on top of each other.
From Washington Times • Feb. 4, 2015
The meaning conveyed by any philosophical term consists largely of the distinctions which it suggests.
From The Approach to Philosophy by Perry, Ralph Barton
The state of health, or tone, if we use that term, consists therefore in a certain quantity or energy of excitability necessary to its preservation.
From Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease by Garnett, Thomas
Metaphysic, in the more limited acceptation of the term, consists of two parts—transcendental philosophy and the physiology of pure reason.
From The Critique of Pure Reason by Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow
