Example sentences for: dictionaries

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

  • Dictionaries ought to be reviewed by professional lexicographers.

  • In the decades during which I have been involved in the compilation, editing, revision, updating, adaptation, etc. of dictionaries, I have always considered lexicography an art.

  • These days, when all editions of Burns's poems are annotated, with glosses for any “foreign” words, allowing such Scotticisms to occupy valuable space in general dictionaries is not considered economical, and only those likely to appear in crossword puzzles are included.

  • It is clear that collocations dictionaries and synonym differentiators may not exist at all in a particular language community: in fact, very few language communities can boast of such resources.

  • At the time he was writing, Michener noted that dictionaries had not caught up with the current meaning.


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