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Example sentences for: dictionary
How can you use “dictionary” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
, and fails to explain what is metaphorical about She is ailing . Third--though here we might not be dealing with Ayto's decision as much as the publisher's--it is simply not convenient to have a dictionary of etymology that excludes all bound prefixes and suffixes, though these are glossed, as required, when they are part of an entry.
Submulgery, ensqualm, bifaulgulate—the reader runs to the dictionary and is surprised to find them absent.
The curious collector of Southern folk usages of this type need only consult the Oxford English Dictionary for enlightenment about the origin and the longevity of language.
A piece on the WP front reports on an organized protest campaign of thousands of angry phone calls, letters and e-mails directed at Merriam-Webster because of its current dictionary's definition of "nigger" as "a black person--usually taken to be offensive."
To be sure, if one is going to spend $18 or so, the dictionary selected ought to be the most up to date and have the largest number of entries, a bit of reasoning not lost on the crowd at Random House.
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