Example sentences for: coined

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

  • David Galef has coined the term morox [XIV, 2] to designate unintentional, inelegant oxymorons such as many fewer problems, largely insignificant , and barely clothed . I collect solecisms of all sorts that I hear on television broadcasts.

  • But because the syllable man also means `ten thousand' in Japanese, they have coined a further word, okushon , based on their word for `one hundred million' oku , because that implies greater luxury still.

  • When Carroll coined the word borogoves he gave it only one r, but somehow a few editors gave it a second r, as in borogroves.

  • The ancient Greeks first coined the term and applied it to the ruddy inhabitants of the eastern Mediterranean.

  • "Latino" is Spanish for "Latin"; Latin was the official language of Hispania, and "Latin America" was coined by geographers in the 18 th century to describe the New World colonies of Portugal and Spain.


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