Example sentences for: citational

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

  • Neither Ranke nor Gibbon invented the citational or literary footnote; Grafton slogs back through time in search of antecedents.

  • There are many other instances of the misuses of citational evidence, not only by users of dictionaries but by lexicographers themselves: there is no way, using the citational materials at present appearing in dictionaries as prima facie evidence, that one would be justified in assuming that a broad statistical segment of English speakers is thereby represented; even the most cursory examination of entries in the OED (which I assume to be the source of Graham's information) will rapidly, ineluctably lead the observer to realize that

  • Also, the citational style has been tightened, undoubtedly to create space for additional entries.

  • b) the conclusions drawn by the OED's definers and commentators often cannot be supported by citational evidence—at least, not the citational evidence that appears in the published work.

  • In resorting to sources that might be justifiably viewed as natural language, those who concur with Professor Greenbaum's approach ignore this important aspect of citational matter.


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