Example sentences for: bodine

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

  • In answer to Anne Bodine's point, both the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English and the Collins Cobuild Dictionary use they and their as the non-gender-specific pronoun/adjective (which the reader probably noted also in the first paragraph of this review).

  • See Barbara Bodine interview (Oct.

  • Bodine analyzes the ways in which (male) grammarians (both descriptive and prescriptive) have since the seventeenth century sought to establish he as the sex-indefinite pronoun despite evidence that actual usage consistently contradicts that.

  • This applies in particular to essays such as Anne Bodine's on “Androcentrism in prescriptive grammar: singular `they,' sex-indefinite `he,' and `he or she.

  • On the guidance, and the presumed reasons for it, see Barbara Bodine interview (Oct.


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