Example sentences for: gagged

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

  • A second class of bound and gagged morphemes comprises innovations based upon a portion of a common term that is either not a morpheme or an incorrect form of a morpheme used in a new sense.

  • And for all our groans to the contrary, bound and gagged morphemes are a feature of our national disposition, our lighthearted lack of regard for linguistic tradition.

  • On the contrary, their attention to meaning must be acute, even if purists pale at the inelegance of the many neologisms, because bound and gagged morphemes succeed in communicating with marvelous ease and utility.

  • The bound and gagged morpheme is in fact the stepchild of the pun and initially is meant to be recombined only as long as it seems clever to do so.

  • The American propensity for lexical shanghaiing has produced a new type of morpheme, the bound and gagged morpheme.


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