Example sentences for: alphabet

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

  • The alphabet in question was recited to me by a London cabbie many years ago.

  • L 's set of symbols is somewhat closer to that of the International Phonetic Alphabet; W follows the system used in the Third Unabridged , which is too complicated for my taste, being replete with diacritics.

  • The Alphabet Abecedarium is the bibliophile's answer to the botanist's stroll through the garden, being an eminently enjoyable omnium gatherum of recondite, recherché, and obscure arcana and lore about the letters of our Latin alphabet written in a light, conversational, self-deprecatory, tongue-in-cheek style.

  • It consists of borrowed Chinese ideograms (characters known as kanji , the hiragana syllabary used for Japanese words not covered by kanji , the katakana syllabary used for foreign words, and the Roman alphabet known as romanji usually used for abbreviations like UN and acronyms like GATT .

  • After Shaw's death in 1950 we were treated to the farce that resulted from the provision in his will that the income from the residue of his estate be used for twenty-one years on the design and dissemination of a new alphabet for the English language.


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