Example sentences for: alphabet

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

  • Homer's Greek spelling cannot be precisely rendered in Roman characters because not all the letters in the Greek alphabet have exact analogs.

  • It is important, too, to note that writing systems are irrelevant: for instance, Polish is written (today) using the Roman alphabet, but Russian, a related Slavic language, uses the Cyrillic; Yiddish, a Germanic language, is written in Hebrew characters; Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit, which resemble one another rather closely in some respects, all use different alphabets; and early examples, utterly unrecognizable to untrained readers of modern languages, were written in cuneiform, quite suitable for writing on soft clay tablets with a pointed stylus, and hieroglyphics.

  • The Biblical psalmist undoubtedly used the combination of the verse form and an abecedarius to remember Psalm 119, each of whose twenty-two octaves begins with a successive letter of the Hebrew alphabet.

  • Making the Alphabet Dance

  • For example, eight bits represent a single letter in the alphabet: The eight-letter word "alphabet" contains 64 bits.


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