Example sentences for: briggs

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

  • References Briggs 1988; Brown 1978; Espinosa 1985; Fisher 1958; Henderson 1937; Ingalls 1996; Rael 1950; Robb 1980

  • I have some sympathy for Doug Briggs's stance against American circumlocution.

  • As Mr. Briggs seems to be saying, ideas have consequences, and so do the words that express them.

  • In his piece, The Day They Took the Peck out of Pecksniffian [XXIII, 4], Doug Briggs observed, There is a movement to decriminalize the meanings of words that once described criminal conduct in unmistakable terms.

  • Too often prisons are called correction facilities; a lavatory with urinals a bathroom; and as Briggs wrote, dope a controlled substance.


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