Example sentences for: elided

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

  • Sometimes words may be elided into forms such as kinda, twer, wodja, gonna, tellem, owsya.

  • Probably an elided mix up of sexy, sex bomb, and sex symbol (/sek/sy/m/ bon/) because l is not a final consonant in Thai and if encountered in a loanword becomes n (or in this case m as bomb is also a loanword).

  • It's a frustrating piece of work--much too vivid to laugh off, too psychologically elided to take seriously.

  • Other common lexical items that are often altered include elided verb forms (wanna, canna, dunno) and question words linked to verbs (wodya, owja).


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