Example sentences for: dem

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

  • Instead of Labor, Liberal Dem, or Tory, you might hear, "Loony."

  • Willey is a more believable witness than Lewinsky, explain the pundits, because she's an appealing, attractive woman (John Harris, PBS's Washington Week in Review ; Evan Thomas, Inside Washington ). And Willey carries no right-wing conspirator baggage: She's a through and through Dem with impeccable left-wing credentials (Susan Page, Late Edition ; Brit Hume, Fox News Sunday ; Gigot, NewsHour ; Thomas).

  • There are telltale characteristics, widely if not universally present: the replacement of an initial "th" with a "d" sound ("dis," "dem") and of a medial or final "th" by an "f" or other consonant sound ("with" becomes "wif," "brother" becomes "bruvah"); a reduction of consonant clusters in general (so that "first" becomes "firs" and "hand" becomes "han"); the replacement of a final "r" sound with a vowel sound ("summah" for "summer" and "mo" for "more"); the prevalence of so-called plosive consonants (making a word such as "bill" sound more like "beel"); the placement of stress on a first, rather than a second, syllable ("DEE-troit"); the disappearance of the final "s" from third-person singular verbs ("what go 'round, come 'round"); the dropping of the copula ("I here," "the coffee cold") and of certain tense inflections altogether.

  • The parliamentary home of Wilhelminian and Weimar Germany displays the proud dedication Dem deutschen Volke (To the German People) on a Neo-Classical façade built in 1894 by Paul Wallot.

  • Dear Dem,


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