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How to use devolves in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word devolves? Here are some examples.

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The frank realism of his writing devolves from his experience working with violence prevention in prisons and schools in New York.
If the detectives are of differing abilities it devolves into a situation where one player is deciding the best move for everybody else.
In another, an abstracted cutaway view of the landscape devolves into a pattern that suggests a bar code.
Occasionally the music devolves into electronic skronk before starting another droney excursion.
Let me stop here, before this devolves into another frenzied and unfounded rant.
It is just a given, so the whole thing revolves and devolves down to the national interest.
A celestial organ devolves into the shrill shrieks of swooping banshees, and deep rumbles sound like the dyspeptic gurgles in a huge beasts' stomach.
Her piece then devolves into a long remembrance of her history, that of a working class girl who became disillusioned with her chosen party because it ceased to care.
What starts off as an interesting premise quickly devolves into a melodrama that cannot be sustained by a cast of actors who look like they would rather be somewhere else.
This rant then devolves into a general pasting of popular music and is not especially coherent, but then, what do you want out of a one-eared, stuffed deer.
The current settlement devolves substantial power and funding to the Scottish parliament and compares well with most other sub-national jurisdictions of the world.
What started off as a nice satire of Big Science and weapons research devolves into an unpleasant story of corruption involving a large cast of unpleasant characters.
But now her frigid stoicism quickly devolves into a kind of nymphomania.
It sets out amendments to the Scotland Act 1998 and devolves further powers to Scotland.
The important duty of getting rid of uninhabitable houses or insanitary property devolves on the sanitary authority, and requires to be carried out with discrimination.
Examples from Classical Literature
It is not a subject on which I would willingly dwell, and yet I am conscious that a duty devolves upon me to omit no detail.
But a whole movie's worth of this dour dithering eventually devolves into uncomfortable self-parody.
It devolves, finally, on the polemarch to see that all goes well.
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