Definition of sends

"sends" in the verb sense

1. send, direct

cause to go somewhere

"The explosion sent the car flying in the air"

"She sent her children to camp"

"He directed all his energies into his dissertation"

2. send, send out

to cause or order to be taken, directed, or transmitted to another place

"He had sent the dispatches downtown to the proper people and had slept"

3. mail, post, send

cause to be directed or transmitted to another place

"send me your latest results"

"I'll mail you the paper when it's written"

4. transport, send, ship

transport commercially

5. station, post, send, place

assign to a station

6. send, get off, send off

transfer

"The spy sent the classified information off to Russia"

7. commit, institutionalize, institutionalise, send, charge

cause to be admitted of persons to an institution

"After the second episode, she had to be committed"

"he was committed to prison"

8. air, send, broadcast, beam, transmit

broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television

"We cannot air this X-rated song"

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Quotations for sends

That's best Which God sends.
'Twas His will: it is mine. [ Lord Lytton ]

God sends cold after clothes. [ Proverb ]

In time comes he, whom God sends. [ Proverb ]

He that sends a fool expects one. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The poor make no new friends;
But oh, they love the better still
The few our Father sends. [ Lady Dufferin ]

True sincerity sends for no witness. [ Proverb ]

God sends cold according to clothes. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

God sends nothing but what can be borne. [ Italian Proverb ]

God sends meat and the devil sends cooks. [ Proverb ]

God never sends mouths but he sends meat. [ Proverb ]

He that sends a fool, means to follow him. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Chance will not do the work -
Chance sends the breeze;
But if the pilot slumber at the helm.
The very wind that wafts us towards the port
May dash us on the shelves.
The steersman's part is vigilance.
Blow it or rough or smooth. [ Sir Walter Scott ]

Fire in the heart sends smoke into the head. [ German Proverb ]

Heaven sends us misfortunes as a moral tonic. [ Lady Blessington ]

Vexations, duly borne,
Are but as trials, which heaven's love to man
Sends for his good. [ William Shakespeare ]

God sends experience to paint men's portraits. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

Those dreams, that on the silent night intrude,
And with false flitting shades our minds delude,
Jove never sends us downward from the skies;
Nor can they from infernal mansions rise;
But are all mere productions of the brain,
And fools consult interpreters in vain. [ Swift ]

I want a hero: an uncommon want.
When every year and month sends forth a new one. [ Byron ]

Fe sends to the East Indies for Kentish pippins. [ Proverb ]

What destiny sends, bear! Whoever perseveres will be crowned. [ Herder ]

Providence seems to have forgot the man to whom it sends but few friends. [ Proverb ]

Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted;
If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters, returning
Back to their springs, like the rain, shall fill them full of refreshment;
That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain. [ Longfellow ]

The Sibyl, speaking with inspired mouth, sends her voice to remotest ages. [ Heraclitus ]

Difficulty adds to result, as the ramming of powder sends the bullet the further. [ George MacDonald ]

Nature never sends a great man into the planet without confiding the secret to another soul. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

It is seldom that God sends such calamities upon man as men bring upon themselves and suffer willingly. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

They have no other doctor but sun and the fresh air, and that such an one as never sends them to the apothecary. [ South ]

Darkness is fled. Now flowers unfold their beauties to the sun, and blushing kiss the beam he sends to wake them. [ Sheridan ]

Many men and women spend their lives in unsuccessful attempts to spin the flax God sends them upon a wheel they can never use. [ J. G. Holland ]

When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way. [ Thackeray ]

Genius is to other gifts what the carbuncle is to the precious stones. It sends forth its own light, whereas other stones only reflect borrowed light. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]

Enjoy the blessings of this day if God sends them; and the evils bear patiently and sweetly. For this day only is ours; we are dead to yesterday, and we are not born to tomorrow. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

When God will educate a man, he compels him to learn bitter lessons; He sends him to school to the necessities rather than to the graces, that by knowing all suffering he may know also the eternal consolations. [ Celia Burleigh ]

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousand truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away. [ Beecher ]

No language can express the power and beauty, and heroism and majesty of a mother's love; it shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over the wastes of worldly fortune sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star in heaven. [ E. H. Chapin ]

The wild force of genius has often been fated by Nature to be finally overcome by quiet strength. The volcano sends up its red bolt with terrific force, as if it would strike the stars; but the calm, resistless hand of gravitation seizes it and brings it to the earth. [ Bayne ]

sends in Scrabble®

The word sends is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters sends:

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sends in Words With Friends™

The word sends is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters sends:

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Words within the letters of sends

2 letter words in sends (1 word)

3 letter words in sends (4 words)

4 letter words in sends (3 words)

5 letter words in sends (1 word)

sends + 1 blank (4 words)

Words containing the sequence sends

Words that start with sends (1 word)

Words with sends in them (1 word)

Words that end with sends (3 words)

Word Growth involving sends

Shorter words in sends

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Longer words containing sends

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