Example sentences for: definitions

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

  • The article Politicking With Words , with its references to rival definitions of Whig and Tory , put me in mind of a cartoon that appeared in Punch in 1896 (since republished in a collection--I don't go back quite that far).

  • Definitions for infectious events were based on the Center for Disease Control (CDC) criteria.

  • That is not the truism it appears to be: as lexicographers add entries, increasing the depth to which the lexicon is being probed, they must add definitions, proportionally increasing the coverage of existing entries (which often accomplishes little or nothing to increase the entry count).

  • A verb/noun entry: to tough out a storm, that is, to weather weather . More doubles, minus definitions, are: cozy cozy, March march, short short, fair fair , and so on.

  • The RNA structure models presented here are composed of several different basic building blocks (or motifs) that are described and illustrated at our RNA Structure Definitions page http://www.rna.icmb.utexas.edu/CSI/DEFS/(H-1C.


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