How to Use solve in a Sentence

solve

verb
  • The mystery has been solved.
  • He couldn't solve the math problem.
  • They are working to solve the traffic problem.
  • If they'll lend us the money we need, all our problems will be solved.
  • The FBI has been trying to solve the case for years.
  • The best way to solve this problem is to add a layer of sand or peat moss to the ground.
    oregonlive, 18 Dec. 2022
  • And the best way to solve a problem is to learn about it through web searching.
    Dallas News, 13 Jan. 2023
  • And people have been trying to solve this in all kinds of ways.
    Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Two of them, Sanders and Warren, don’t solve the age problem.
    Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 11 Feb. 2023
  • Cone is quick to credit the men’s team with helping solve it.
    Staff Writer follow, Los Angeles Times, 27 Dec. 2022
  • Students have been required for decades to learn to solve for the variable x, and to find the slope of a line.
    Troy Closson, New York Times, 22 May 2024
  • If that case could be solved after so long, why not Ann’s?
    Veronica Fulton, NBC News, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Is ghosting going to solve the problem in a way that makes sense for you?
    Kristen Rogers, CNN, 18 Aug. 2024
  • But this is only half of the problem that needs solving.
    Peter Guest, WIRED, 16 Feb. 2024
  • What’s next on the road to solving one of mankind's oldest riddles?
    Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 27 June 2024
  • For many readers, Finnegans Wake isn’t a text to master or a puzzle to solve.
    Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Aren’t these the very problems Obamacare was supposed to solve?
    John C. Goodman, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • With that mystery solved, Lee moved on to give us the skinny about that buzzy butter.
    Karla Walsh, Southern Living, 18 Dec. 2023
  • This is a problem that is not going to be solved by putting guards on the border or barbed wire.
    Albinson Linares, NBC News, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Today, most websites and apps aren’t yet equipped with AI that can solve this.
    Alexandre Robicquet, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2023
  • One monkey played around with a Rubik’s Cube but didn’t solve it.
    Reuven Perlman, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2023
  • And even then, the deal often fails to solve the problem but rather punts the deadline until later in the year.
    Cami Mondeaux, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 7 Sep. 2024
  • How about Robin Roberts helping to solve a mystery ripped from the headlines?
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 19 Sep. 2023
  • But in the world of high-end cuisine, chefs solve for decay by throwing away fish.
    Caroline Hatchett, Robb Report, 10 May 2024
  • But their deaths aren’t the only mystery Gigante hopes to solve.
    Ellyn Lapointe, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Aug. 2024
  • But short-term injection of cash won’t solve the Haitian crisis alone.
    Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 5 June 2024
  • The study hasn’t solved the puzzle of what causes Kawasaki disease.
    Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Sep. 2024
  • There were puzzles to solve, and a story of loneliness to cure.
    Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2024
  • When the Pogues return to Kildare, they are seen as heroes for solving the mystery of El Dorado and finding the treasure.
    Rebecca Aizin, People.com, 10 Oct. 2024
  • In a new study, scientists at Donghua University in China have solved both of those problems.
    New Atlas, 9 Oct. 2024

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