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Six example sentences with modify, each labelled with its topic.
You can modify the recipe by swapping half the butter for yogurt, and the crumb stays almost exactly the same.
Cooking
Engineers had to modify two lines of the driver, leaving the rest of the twelve-thousand-line file completely untouched.
Technology
A good coach will modify one detail of your squat each week rather than rebuilding the whole movement at once.
Fitness
The judge agreed to modify the order, extending the deadline by thirty days without changing any other condition.
Law
The arranger chose to modify only the final chorus, adding a key change and leaving the verses exactly as written.
Music
The coach will modify the press when the point guard tires, keeping the shape but pulling one defender back.
Basketball
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