Example sentences for: citations

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

  • It provides eight citations from 1964 to 1986, including John Fowels' novel Daniel Martin , and another referring to the Isle of Weight.

  • For instance, those who are curious about collective nouns (like gaggle of geese, pride of lions ) are referred to Ruth Rendell's An Unkindness of Ravens and James Lipton's An Exaltation of Larks , but no mention is made of Ivan G. Speakes's Dictionary of Collective Nouns , Gale Research Company, 1975, which is not only the most comprehensive work on the subject but provides citations, as well.

  • In addition, curators select citations from the text as evidence for the identified fact, and those citations are also added to the database.

  • Finally, it might interest readers to learn that the Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd Edition , now available on CD-ROM, lists 121 citations from VERBATIM (through Spring 1985 only).

  • A similar notion surrounds the word till , which many would suggest is a somehow less formal shortening of until , the shortening of which is properly written 'til . As it happens, the original form was till , with until being formed from unto `up to' + till . The citations in the OED , which are rather thin on the ground for early 13th-century (Middle) English, show the two forms to be of virtually contemporaneous origin.


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