Example sentences for: ae

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

  • As a speaker of AE sojourning for several months each year in Britain during the past twenty years, I have been struck by the creeping changes I have perceived in the RP pronunciation of some ordinary words (controversy, disciplinary) and of proper names: news-readers on BBC Radio 4 and World Service tend to stress Afghanistan and Khomeini on the last syllable where formerly one heard it stressed on the sound.

  • One would expect against in AE also for this sense, and the of can be attributed to journalese or some other aberrant style.

  • Compilers (and publishers) of such works would be well advised to have any AE material thoroughly checked by those in the know, for it is almost impossible to derive accurate information about a given dialect save from those who are steeped in it.

  • Appeal of is used in standard AE in: `The appeal of children and kittens is universal.

  • BLAST searches identified a putative drosophila ortholog from genomic scaffold AE003635.


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