Example sentences for: coinages

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

  • For many, it might be impossible to find evidence for their existence outside the single quotation in the OED or similar source, and they might have been nonce coinages.

  • The Second Edition of the Random House Unabridged follows a similar practice, and I find it speculative, spurious, and specious except for the documentation of relatively recent coinages.

  • All words are coinages, the editors claim, and they resist charting relations between their entries and an “authorized” or canonized list of words.

  • The vocabulary is jocular in its easy mixture of the casual (in slang or coinages or abbreviations), the learned (in avatar, baroque, catatonic, synchronous ), the visual (in hieroglyphics or emoticons), and even the aural (in the fondness for explosives, like bang , common spoken name for !) or onomatopoeia ( bletch, glitch, gonk ).

  • The coinages and cadences of the Tyndale Bible--"eat, drink, and be merry"; "a fool's paradise"; "fight the good fight"; "suffer the children"; "the salt of the earth"; "in his right mind"; "the powers that be"--and of the King James Version have for three centuries served both as psychic libretto and as percussion section for English speakers everywhere.


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast