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.

  • 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.

  • A very recent development, of British origin, is the addition of names to monolingual dictionaries of English as a Second Language [ESL], such as the new encyclopedic edition of the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary (1992).

  • One might think, given the emphasis on encyclopedic information, that etymologies of place names would be included, but they are not.

  • The present book, although it is called a dictionary, contains much ancillary encyclopedic, folkloristic, and fishloristic information, most of it carefully referenced to sources, which are documented in an eight-page bibliography.


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast