Example sentences for: encyclopedic

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

  • Dwelly set out to compile the Gaelic from all earlier dictionaries and was very successful in an encyclopedic effort; but the work would have been more useful had it an English-to-Gaelic section and provided some etymological clues as to meaning.

  • We do not attempt an encyclopedic coverage of every nook and cranny from the U.S. border to the Arctic Circle, but we do provide a representative sample of the country’s attractions.

  • I question their status as lexical items but cannot argue on safe ground because they might well be categorized as part of the “encyclopedic” information.

  • 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.

  • The Oxford Encyclopedic English Dictionary


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