Example sentences for: essays

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

  • The relationships between linguistics and writing are emphasized here and there in The World's Writing Systems by the short essays, prepared by the editors and contributors, that punctuate the text.

  • This is a small book containing a few hundred common idioms with standard definitions, citations, and suggested origins; adding to its value are the twenty-two brief essays on various aspects of the formation and characteristics of idioms.

  • Although many articles, theoretical essays, and books have been written about metaphors, little effort has been made to investigate them systematically: as all of language is itself a metaphor (unless one believes in logomancy), one is continually confronted in the compilation of an ordinary dictionary with examples of semantic and linguistic changes (as well as amelioration, pejoration, etc.) that are tantamount to shifts of meaning that, loosely, could be said to be metaphoric.

  • A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

  • He published essays expounding these views in 1973, before he ever wrote a novel, then again in 1989, after Bonfire of the Vanities became a huge best seller.


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