Example sentences for: dictionary

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

  • Far from simply giving us the Welsh for rheumatism , he goes into details of the symptoms and I will spare you a five-line description of the scabs in a case of blue jaundice . If you should catch blue jaundice in Wales, I strongly advise you to have Dr. Richards's dictionary at hand.

  • One cannot discover the answer by looking up left or right in an ordinary dictionary, of course.

  • In Charles McGregor's words, a dictionary that says “a lot about a little” and one that says “a little about a lot” can end up roughly the same size.

  • yadda yadda make it formally into one dictionary before obviating the need for dictionaries at all.

  • Herbert Coleridge, the first editor of the Philological Society's dictionary, was not the poet's grandson; Elisabeth Murray's biography was only taken on by Oxford after Yale University Press had turned it into a bestseller and shamed OUP into publishing it (OUP having earlier rejected it as unworthy).


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