Example sentences for: collocations

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

  • From a hint given on page 51, one gathers that Kozlowska studied at Edinburgh University; from her facility with the English used in her discussion of collocations, one gains the impression that she has excellent control of the language.

  • 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.

  • If we call the way the speakers of a given language puts its words together idiom , then the process of separating out the resulting phrases produces collocations .

  • Notwithstanding the logistic difficulties of constructing synonym differentiators and collocations dictionaries, particularly the latter, it is now possible for information technology to deliver direct to socalled end-users lexical data retrieval systems of great size, power, and usefulness.

  • The important contrast is between the bush vegetation in its natural state, country covered in such vegetation, and brush and scrub as subsets of bush on the one hand, and, on the other, country that is naturally open or that has been cleared, an activity which gave the language to burn off as well as short-lived collocations like clearing gang, clearing lease, and clearing party.


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