Example sentences for: collingwood

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

  • -- Harris Collingwood New York City

  • Hype in the sense of excessive or false publicity goes back much further than the 1960s (Collingwood's suggested decade of origin)--to at least the 1920s (per the Oxford English Dictionary ), which is the same time that hype is attested to as a verb and noun associated with drug use, and the word is explicitly linked to hypodermic . The OED , the Dictionary of American Slang , the Barnhart Dictionary of New English , and the Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang all make the hypodermic connection.

  • --Collingwood Harris

  • From: Harris Collingwood

  • Cullen Murphy replies: Harris Collingwood's letter is one of many I have received that would derive hype from hyperbole rather than more circuitously from the hype derived from hypodermic , and thus from the idea of stimulation associated with drug use.


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


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast