Example sentences for: catalogs

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

  • A writer catalogs the six phyla of screen aliens, which include "the small, gray, hairless, chinless, big-eyed waif" à la Close Encounters and "the comic-relief plush toy" such as Alf.

  • Shoppers hold mail-order firms to a higher standard than department stores when it comes to keeping things in stock, because the catalogs afford them a photo and item number for every parka, turtleneck, and blazer ever placed in inventory.

  • Unlike traveling peddlers of the past, who carried everything with them, these salesmen could ride the rails into town with no more than a trunk of samples and catalogs.

  • I dogged the pages of a number of catalogs in November and called in my selections before Thanksgiving in order to ensure ample delivery time.

  • Indeed, out of a random sample of ten major universities where electronic library catalogs were available via the Internet, only six had subscribed to Nature , and only two to Science . More specialized journals are available only in Moscow and perhaps St. Petersburg.


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