Verb (used with object) : He composed his speech from many research notes. ,a rich sauce composed of many ingredients. ,Style composes the essence of good writing. ,to compose laws into a coherent system. ,The union and management composed their differences.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used without object) : a scene that composes well.    From Dictionary.com. 

I wish you luck in composing your "most useful mexico sites".    From Wordnik.com.  [Most Useful Mexico Site?] Reference

It always struck me as a reason to avoid formula in composing a cover.    From Wordnik.com.  [MIND MELD: The 'Responsibility' of Cover Art] Reference

He had discrimination in composing and good taste in the choice of his figures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun] Reference

The problem is neither part 1 or part 2 was part of my intent in composing the post.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sound Politics: Post-Thanksgiving Turkey] Reference

Perhaps composing is the healthiest means of musical expression for this very reason.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stumblin'] Reference

As a teenager I was interested in composing music as well as in writing poetry and fiction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Morgan biography] Reference

Ben Watkins makes most of his coin composing film music, which explains why the aural elements heard on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Westword | Complete Issue] Reference

In this Garret, amid six or seven other workmen, his active Mind employed itself in composing the Farmer's Boy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letter 20] Reference

She spent three quarters of an hour in composing her letter and tore up two false starts before she was satisfied.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jerry Junior] Reference

Fundamentally, placing objects is the most basic step in composing, the effort to achieve rhythm, balance and emphasis.    From Wordnik.com.  [wyeth & peterson | the local artist « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground] Reference

To those making comments with obssessive emotion, your comment is as meaningful as the level of intellect used in composing it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bill Clinton says race card allegation 'revolting strategy'] Reference

I DID commit to the new series and have developed enough of Iris Martin's backstory to begin composing her life through novels.    From Wordnik.com.  [January 2007] Reference

But as the Washington Post reports, there are now businesses specializing in composing e-mails for men who use online dating websites.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » A Cyrano de Bergerac for the 21st Century] Reference

Even in composing arrays, you need to first compose it the way you would in perl and then call the flatten method on that list in order to make it what you want.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruby vs Perl Arrays : #comments] Reference

The politics of how such stories are composed and how societies deal with dissent and difference in composing such a unified story have grave implications for the future.    From Wordnik.com.  ['I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976] Reference

"My composing is a very mild affair," Hadria answered.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference

Rabbi Freundel has been very influential in composing the Orthodox movement’s response to modernity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Newsweek’s Top Rabbis « The Blog at 16th and Q] Reference

"This is called a composing-stick," said Jupenet; "it is by the aid of this stick that the lines are formed.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vicomte De Bragelonne] Reference

That he learned much from Handel cannot be doubted, and it must have been Handel's music that suggested to him the idea of composing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Haydn] Reference

Lisa Hirsch on composing from the distaff side.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-05-01] Reference

For some reason we are to divide into teams and play games such as composing limericks about Welsh AMs and MPs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2003-09-01] Reference

So I learned by composing which is really strange. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Holly Cara Price: Sxip Shirey's Magic Journey: Sonic New York] Reference

(with good reason) as "uniquely militant ... oppositional outlaws" composing "the only truly radical community organization.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Corner] Reference

Do you have any interest in composing, or in performing new music?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Violin Prodigy Sees The World] Reference

Now many stay up late composing lyrics and dream of agents and record contracts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beating The Rap In Brazil] Reference

It is with some difficultly that I attempt to quell my enthusiasm in composing this letter.    From Wordnik.com.  [‘The Day Of Our Relief’] Reference

At 57, but looking 10 years younger, Zwilich has an almost Bernsteinian enthusiasm for composing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kids In The Hall] Reference

Soon you'll be scanning in personal photos, composing the layout and even writing the verses yourself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Say It With Pixels] Reference

Alzheimer's attacks memory first, and composing complex sentences requires acute memory of events a few seconds old.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Weight Of Words] Reference

He changed his mind though, swayed, he says, by the songs from the composing team of Tom Kitt (music) and Amanda Green (lyrics).    From Wordnik.com.  [Faithful to ‘Fidelity?’] Reference