Example sentences for: citation

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

  • The citation is from the Roanoke Times and World-News , undoubtedly a redoubtable newspaper but scarcely one I should have selected as typifying AE.

  • (This is not the place to enter the discussion between the dictionary splitters `definers who write a definition for almost every citation' and the combiners `definers who tend to write “basic” definitions and rely on the ability of users to divine metaphoric extensions for themselves.

  • Relying solely on one's own knowledge can be dangerous—witness Johnson's definition of pastern —so one must always check and double-check; but that is not a difficult matter if citation material is available, and there are usually other books or specialists one can consult.

  • , Filofiction , which indicates not only the productivity of Filo - as a prefix but the metaphoricity of the element) and six citations; Neologisms , in its short entry and one citation, leaves the user to derive what he can about the metaphoric uses of the word.

  • [A definite citation, of course, can be used to verify a fact.


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