Example sentences for: cropped

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

  • The term Indo-European cropped up first at the beginning of the 19th century; as much of the work was being done in Germany, it is not surprising that the term preferred there was Indo-Germanic , actually a translation of indogermanisch (with a small i because it is an adjective), which arose in the late 1820s; the latter survives in the literature, largely replaced by the former, especially since the discovery that Celtic is a member of the family.

  • Where's a film snob to go to see James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause in Cinemascope, rather than rudely cropped on video?

  • Then we are told that heinie is “spelled as if it were Yiddish,” which shows how much Thorne knows about German spelling and pronunciation; the variant hinie is not shown (the word is, after all, a diminutive of behind: the heinie spelling probably cropped up during WWI in confusion with the similarly pronounced Heinie , a synonym for Bosch or Kraut , short for Hein-rich ). At Hicksville it might have been fun to mention that it is a placename in New York (Nassau County) and in several other states.

  • In those items a name I had all but forgotten cropped up again: Linda R. Tripp.

  • Recently, a few stylish, yet inexpensive, hotels have cropped up.


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