Example sentences for: galef

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

  • Here is an instance of what Mr. Galef calls “false recall” acting not to smooth something out but to make it rougher than it ever was!

  • David Galef's article, F U Cn Rd Ths [XXII,4,15], brought to mind a puzzling abbreviation I noticed on highway signs when I moved to Los Angeles some years ago.

  • In David Galef's “Sound and Sense” [XXI, 1], please note that the reference in “The Miller's Tale” should have been to Alison, the wife of John the carpenter, not to the reeve's wife; also, for “sussurus” read susurrus .

  • They did not, however, conform to the letter of Galef's definition—conjunct words of contradictory literal meaning.

  • David Galef in his article Sound and Sense [XXI, 2], says that the childish exclamation Peeyoo ! probably stems from a distorted rendering of Phew !


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