Example sentences for: citations

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

  • However, publishing in Science and Nature was not enough to gain prominence, as evidenced by the number of citations of these researchers.

  • John Ayto has drawn on a world of English-language newspapers and magazines for the citations in this interesting and useful book.

  • 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.

  • The date is often earlier than that of the citations given since these were selected from the Barnhart files as most illustrative of meaning and usage.

  • ' An entry for it must await citations entering the files, assuming the word proves its usefulness to users of English over time.


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