Example sentences for: congeners

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

  • Mieder and Kingsbury are highly respected par(o)emiologists (`experts in the field of proverbs' for those who have the RHD Unabridged , which does not list the word or any of its congeners), hence one would assume that such a collection is not entirely a waste of time.

  • With all respect, that seems a highly debatable issue and one far too complex for this discussion, though we can certainly trace a diminution in the role of female divinities (or divinity) when we come to examine Judaism and its congeners and progeny.

  • Vulgar still carries the strong denotation exemplified in the first (hence the most frequently encountered) sense, “characterized by ignorance of or lack of good breeding or taste: vulgar ostentation .” It has congeners, like vulgarian “a vulgar person”; vulgarism “ 1. the state or quality of being vulgar.

  • The limits of detection for the individual PCB congeners assessed and the percentage of nondetects for samples analyzed at both the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene and the Michigan Department of Community Health Laboratory are shown in tables 1and 2, respectively.

  • It is difficult for the nonspecialist reader (like me) to assess the validity of his arguments, which are based on his contention that the language (and its congeners) were carried along by the spread of nomad pastoralism.


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