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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.