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 problem is, it’s both the run (24th) and the pass (19th), and tough to solve it all at once.
    cleveland, 20 Oct. 2022
  • There is, though, a way to solve the mystery of the Russian flu.
    New York Times, 14 Feb. 2022
  • That was very much the way the business worked back in the day, and solved a lot of problems.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 19 May 2025
  • 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
  • The Steam store page hints that there is more than one way to solve puzzles.
    Diego Argüello, Rolling Stone, 12 Apr. 2025
  • And people have been trying to solve this in all kinds of ways.
    Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 20 Mar. 2024
  • The group of children then has to figure out how to solve the mystery.
    Anne Nickoloff, cleveland, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Nobody thought this show would solve it and, guess what?
    Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • The GoPro Hero 13 has one, but this four-pack of adapters solves the problem for the others.
    Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 27 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • Well, there’s a guest worker program that would solve a lot of it.
    Ronn Blitzer, Fox News, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Now, that’s not to say that Trump is going to solve anything.
    David Remnick, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2025
  • The race to solve this enormous mystery has brought one team to the depths under Lead.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 18 July 2022
  • The Manicurist Let’s Flash set solves the problem and then some.
    Annie Blackman, Allure, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Find out what is chewing the leaves of your plants and get tips for solving the problem.
    Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 June 2025
  • Even certification would not solve the whole problem.
    Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Home care workers deserve fair pay and humane conditions, but this bill doesn’t solve those problems.
    Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 25 Apr. 2026
  • That was so impressive to watch him problem solve how to get his body up this mountain.
    Nigel Smith, PEOPLE, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Amazon is packed with nifty gadgets under $10 to help solve problems around your home and kitchen.
    Mariana Best, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Apr. 2026
  • It has been used to solve some high profile cases, like that of the Golden State Killer.
    Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Finally solved that hard-to-fill spot?
    Ed Silverman, STAT, 24 Apr. 2026

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