Example sentences for: collocations

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

  • The afore-mentioned variety extends, for instance, from learner's dictionaries of collocations for RSP (Russian for specific purposes) areas as disparate as agriculture, materials science, and sociopolitical discourse.

  • It is a series of sounds impressed into a kind of semantic slavery, for urltil recently the collocations could do no semantic work on their own in their present form.

  • Correct deployment of collocations is particularly important for anyone striving for authenticity of performance within a particular professional sociolect, such as the language of medicine or economics.

  • Movement towards the interior was movement up the country (from as early as 1805) or into the back country; movement towards the settled districts was movement down the country or in: travelers came in from the bush as they can now come in to a station, though out, except in collocations like outdistrict, outfarm, outsettler, outsettlement, belongs to a later period.

  • They should also be able to operate various controls to refine search strategies; still, when all is said and done, all they want is authentic citations and authentic collocations.


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