Example sentences for: beale

How can you use “beale” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • I was pleased to see that Beale accepts the etymology of (British) po-faced as coming from po `chamber pot,' disagreeing with Collins English Dictionary [Editorial Director: L. Urdang] which traces it to a modification of poor-faced . I never cared for that, on the grounds that I know of no British dialect that pronounces poor as [pou].

  • Beale can scarcely be held accountable for Barnhart's scholarship, but I can say that I personally know the term to have been used in the early 1950s, and I did not then get the impression that it had been coined for my benefit.

  • I suggest only that Beale stop at the point where he has identified the origin of a given expression as American and eschew the information found in some of the secondary sources he resorted to, for they are inconsistent in their accuracy.

  • Born in 1884, Partridge died in 1979; Paul Beale has picked up the reins in an able manner and continues to charge ahead.

  • Without this explanation, Beale's cryptic “Ex note scribbled on stiff shirtcuff” would give a laundryman nightmares.


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