Example sentences for: cite

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

  • Also Went-worth/Flexner and Chapman both cite the term the leather as meaning a kick, but they date the term from 1946, citing a passage from Damon Runyon: “he would give his fallen foe what we called `the leather,' meaning a few boots abaft the ears.

  • Kutchins and Kirk cite a particularly amusing example of such disputes: Robert Spitzer, the man in charge of DSM-III , was sitting down with a committee that included his wife, in the process of composing a criteria-set for Masochistic Personality Disorder--a disease that was suggested for, but never made it into, the DSM-III-R (a revised edition).

  • I could cite a dozen other tones--of pleading impatience, of emotional exhaustion, of inveigling desperation, and so forth--every possible reaction to the Swede and his predicament.

  • Last year talking-head lawyer Joseph DiGenova got NBC to fork up $10,000 after Geraldo Rivera broadcasted an offer of that amount to anyone who could cite a case where a person was convicted of perjury for lying about sex.

  • I can cite two examples:


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