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Example sentences for: bi-
How can you use “bi-” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
The Bi-Directionalists believe that language influences culture even as culture influences language; the other side avers it doesn't.
That captures the initial-letter sense of acronym but uses the combining form bi- signifying two (from the Latin bi- meaning twice or having two).
After the Conquest English remained robustly alive during a period of bi- and trilingualism: the invading Normans spoke a French dialect which became for a time the language of the kings and the nobility, while contemporary English was spoken by the indigenous population; Latin was the language of record and of the law in general, and so it remained for about two centuries after the Conquest, with English as a close second.
The words bicronym and polycronym are formed by breaking up the combining form acro- (from the Greek acros meaning highest) into a- and cro- and combining bi- or poly- with cro- .
In a similar vein, the National Aviation Museum at Rockcliffe Airport traces the history of aviation through the early flying machines, bi- and triplanes, and the great fighters of two world wars.