Dictionary
1
to comprise
to account for
to make up (of)
2
to hold
to occupy
Kanji in This Word
| Kanji | Meanings | Readings |
|---|---|---|
| 占 | fortune-telling; divining; forecasting; occupy; hold; have; get; take; fortune-telling; divining; forecasting; occupy; hold; have; get; take | セン ・ しめる ・ うらなう |
Example Sentences
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Examples 1–10 out of 31.
| A study shows lung cancer accounts for 17% of women's cancer deaths. | Submit Correction |
| Once you can get the taste for gambling, it's hard to give it up. | Submit Correction |
| However, like America, Japan is predominantly a middle-class, middle-income country, and so wives do not employ maids, but attend to everything themselves. | Submit Correction |
| Nobody could have guessed, in those days, the place in history that Martin Luther King, Jr., was to have. | Submit Correction |
| Although rain forests make up only two percent of the earth's surface, over half the world's wild plant, animal and insect species live there. | Submit Correction |
| Chemical products account for approximately two-thirds of our exports. | Submit Correction |
| Although CFIT accounted for just over a third of crashes in the past six years, it caused 53% of the deaths. | Submit Correction |
| My memories of smoking - which cover 15 years of the best years of my life - suggest that smokers are as aware as anybody else of the disadvantages of their hobby but manage to live with that knowledge for two main reasons. | Submit Correction |
| A third party makes off with the profits. | Submit Correction |
| I have no intention of fishing in troubled waters. | Submit Correction |
