Example sentences for: compile

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

  • It would be difficult to compile such a work without ready access to Mencken, Wilde, Shaw, and others of their sort.

  • The true etymologies of some words are weird and fanciful enough—sometimes unbelievably so—and it must be they that inspired Tuleja to compile this collection, largely (if not entirely) out of his imagination.

  • One article doubts that the government or any competitor can curb Microsoft, another alleges that the company intends to compile dossiers on all PC users, and a third reports on how the ad firm of Wieden & Kennedy transformed Microsoft's image from nerdy to cool.

  • Among his precursors are Julia Margaret Cameron, the great 19 th -century British portraitist, and August Sander, who set out to compile a comprehensive visual record of German life between the world wars.

  • People without lexicographic training who undertake to compile a dictionary run the risk of committing innumerable blunders of the kind that only the seasoned professional knows how to avoid.


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