Example sentences for: english-

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

  • It is understandable that Michel Vercambre would find it disconcerting to run into blue jaundice in his English-Welsh dictionary [“Instant Welsh,” XVII, 3].

  • The Modern Library's 100 Best English-Language Novels Since 1900.

  • The zaniest example I know of occurs in a bilingual dictionary published in 1966, the Ensk-Islensk Ordabók [English-Icelandic Dictionary] of Sigurour Orn Bogason.

  • The word discubitory took my fancy; neither Chambers nor Webster having been able to enlighten me, I consulted Dr. Richards himself, by the simple process of looking up in the Welsh-English section the Welsh word which Dr. Richards had given as the translation of discubitory in the English-Welsh section.

  • A closer study of the English-Welsh section soon brought to light the fact that not only did Dr. Richards know a large number of English words which do not appear in recognized dictionaries I consulted but that, clever man that he was, he was able to translate them into Welsh.


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