Example sentences for: cite

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

  • Daily newswires are filled with announcements of upgrades and downgrades from brokerage houses, while market-wrap articles often cite analysts' reports not as commentary but as news in their own right.

  • (When administration officials cite "ample constitutional precedent," it is this "ample," but hardly constitutional, record, to which they are referring.)

  • ...I heard this many years ago on at least one other occasion from a very knowledgeable South African friend who explained that he could not cite a reference but regarded it as common knowledge.

  • When you present the data, cite the source(s) and state that the data were not assessed.

  • I have encountered it in South Carolina and Georgia, and Thomas Wolfe puts it into the mouth of one of his characters in (I think) Look Homeward, Angel . I have assumed that it derivers from the French expression manquer faire `just miss doing, almost do,' the primary meaning of manquer being `to lack,' which could have shifted into colloquial usage as like . I cite this merely as a possibility, definitive proof being pretty hard to dig up.


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