Example sentences for: barnhart

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

  • Beale can scarcely be held accountable for Barnhart's scholarship, but I can say that I personally know the term to have been used in the early 1950s, and I did not then get the impression that it had been coined for my benefit.

  • The 1963 and 1980 books are both fine dictionaries, and a book that combines the best of those, carefully re-edited, with some solid, new lexicography based on the BDC , the World Book Dictionary , and the substantial Barnhart files, must be a high-quality dictionary.

  • This Third Barnhart Dictionary of New English [TBDNE] follows on two others of similar purpose and style that appeared in 1973 and 1980, respectively, published by Harper & Row.

  • In this latest addition to the series Robert K. Barnhart is listed first on the title page, taking over his father's role in the previous books, and, as before, they are joined by Sol Steinmetz.

  • Of these 50 entries, 18 come from the 1963 book (4 dropped), all 27 were taken from the 1980, and 5 new items were added: goldbug , golden parachute, gold rush (new sense), golf ball (new sense), and gomer . Two of the five are to be found in the BDC , while entries for all appear in the World Book Dictionary (1989 edition), also produced by the Barnhart staff.


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