Example sentences for: dependent

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

  • As only Chomskyan grammar is covered in the book, entries are lacking for such common grammatical concepts—albeit from other disciplines, like traditional grammar— substantive, dependent clause, independent clause, conjunctive adverb, adverbial conjunction, misplaced (or dangling) modifier , etc.—all terms well established in discussions of nonChomskyan grammar.

  • They, too, will get to the point where they are no longer dependent solely on low bono fees.

  • Dependent conservation of word pairs

  • Our editor suggested to me yesterday that it's a somewhat Clintonesque marriage--Tony has a mistress whom he fucks rather joylessly and with whom he never has an actual conversation, but he's really dependent on his wife (although unlike with our president, you have the sense that Tony screws around mostly because that's what mob bosses are supposed to do rather than out of real need).

  • For example, when several species of bumblebees coexist, resource partitioning normally doesn't follow colour, but is dependent on different parameters: the corolla length of the plant and the proboscis length of the bee.


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