Example sentences for: ancillary

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

  • The work in question offers nothing regarding language, so its review here is ancillary to the main function of VERBATIM.

  • For technical information, answers to questions, and solutions to problems with receiving Slate (or, perchance, to thank our technical staff for the flawless technical performance of this site and its ancillary products), e-mail help@slate.com.

  • Some conservative dictionaries published earlier in the 20th century listed a huge number of Scotticisms on the (justifiable) grounds that they would be useful in reading Burns; but most school editions containing Burns's poetry later on supplied glosses, so an ancillary reference proved unnecessary.

  • The problem in reviewing these sets of definitions is that one can never be sure which definition of vulgar ought to be applied to its use in the definitions of the ancillary entries, for the word has a spectrum of meanings.

  • That is, if you are going to say something about people, then avoid using the word man (for example) because, regardless of the ancillary definitions one might find in the dictionary, in its most common meaning and use it denotes `male' and the strong connotations of that denotation are carried over to all other applications of the word: it is not, in fact, as neutral as some believe it to be.


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