Example sentences for: compendium

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

  • In the merest quibble, the word limbeck ( Macbeth , I, 7) is missing from Professor Spevack's compendium, although it appears to be standard usage in most editions of Macbeth.

  • ' " Apparently unsettled by this effective one-two punch, McCain responded with a rambling compendium of his most familiar lines on the subject of campaign finance reform culminating in his repetition of his not very funny joke from last night about how Bush should get a better picture of McCain for the attack ads running in New Hampshire (which aren't in fact connected to the Bush campaign).

  • He was the subject of a biography entitled (I regret to say), Flushed with Pride . On the wall of my bathroom is a page reproduced from The Contractor's Compendium of 1892 which illustrates and describes three products of Crapper & Co.'s works, situated in Marlborough Road, Chelsea.

  • P leasantville suggests that '50s fashions for women have now come to mean what female Victorian clothing used to mean in the 1920s--not just clothes in a different style, but a metaphor, a compendium of ridiculous and unnatural devices invented to dishonor female life and liberty.

  • Ann Castle deserves congratulations for her prodigious compendium of philanthropic donations in the " Slate 60."


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