Example sentences for: barnhart

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

  • 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.

  • In the first place, with all the new dictionaries published since 1960 and the updatings and revisions of existing works that continue to appear, both in the US and the UK, it is difficult to see why Green chose to go back to 1960 as a point of departure, unless one takes into account the publication of the Barnhart Dictionary of New English Since 1963 (1973) and its second edition (1980) and assumes that this book was intended to compete with them; certainly, Neologisms hasn't patch on Barnhart's books.

  • Hype in the sense of excessive or false publicity goes back much further than the 1960s (Collingwood's suggested decade of origin)--to at least the 1920s (per the Oxford English Dictionary ), which is the same time that hype is attested to as a verb and noun associated with drug use, and the word is explicitly linked to hypodermic . The OED , the Dictionary of American Slang , the Barnhart Dictionary of New English , and the Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang all make the hypodermic connection.

  • The date is often earlier than that of the citations given since these were selected from the Barnhart files as most illustrative of meaning and usage.

  • 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.


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