Example sentences for: blends

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

  • Some loanwords undergo a semantic shift, as with manshon high-class apartment block (from mansion ), konpanion female guide or hostess (from companion ), and baikingu buffet meal, smorgasbord (from Vi-king ). Clippings and blends are common, such as terebi television, masukomi mass communication, and wapuro word processor.

  • That Ralph Laurenish note blends quite well with proletarian chic or the skinhead aesthetic.

  • Aso blends vivid emerald-green mounds with great carpets of pink azaleas on the surrounding slopes and plateau.

  • Just named one of the New York Times ' "Notable Books" of 1999, this chronicle of the struggle to understand the flu virus that killed about 700,000 Americans wins high marks for the way it blends rigorous science and a gripping detective story.

  • It is so common that many jokey and dismissive blends formed on - lish have almost become technical terms.


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