Example sentences for: encyclopedic

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

  • His "encyclopedic" press conference (Mark Shields, NewsHour With Jim Lehrer ) was Issue 1, his midweek cancellation of the deadline for U.S. troop withdrawal from Bosnia was Issue 2, and his disarming chat at the White House with conservative critics of affirmative action ranked as Issue 3.

  • What is thus characteristic of such encyclopedic entries is true of all the entries in encyclopedias.

  • Almost every story about the forgery resides on Nick's Whitewater Archives, an encyclopedic compendium of Whitewater dirt, Foster-murder intrigue, Travelgate accusations, Mena airstrip revelations, and the INSLAW case.

  • The pedagogical pretensions of encyclopedic dictionaries must be taken with a grain of salt, though their skewing may be a fair reflection of the limited knowledge that speech communities have of the worthies of whom other speech communities boast.

  • 3) Why is the dispute between the Greek government and the British Museum over the Elgin Marbles raised in a dictionary (regardless of how encyclopedic it is)?


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