Example sentences for: anagram

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

  • Prospecting for hidden meaning, Chatterbox fed the phrase "absolutely false" to his new favorite Web site, Anagram Genius.

  • Anagram: Foul beastly sale.

  • As a tribute to Mr. Eiger's achievement, and to the distinguished reportage today ranked--by Dorothy Rabinowitz and several other New York University judges--as the 100 best works of 20 th century journalism, Chatterbox offers the following anagrams for "Harvest of Shame," CBS's justly celebrated 1960 documentary on migrant workers (anagrams courtesy of Anagram Genius):

  • Other books, which I still believe to be good ( Word for Word , by Edward C. Pinkerton), amusing ( Wordsmanship , by Claurène duGran, a thinly disguised anagram of Laurence Urdang), and useful ( Verbatim Volumes I-VI and the Index thereto, altogether four books), have not fared so well: indeed, a substantial portion of the stock at our warehouse in Pennsylvania consists of Word for Word and the Verbatim volumes.

  • Anagram update: William Tunstall-Pedoe, who maintains the Anagram Genius site (and whose own name sounds like an anagram for something else) informs Chatterbox that the author of the anagram praised in this space last week (see "Beyond 'God' and 'Dog' ") is one Martin Eiger.


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