Example sentences for: galef

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

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

  • Pulsetone, as mentioned in Galef's footnote, is the label (placard) on an instrument for a switch that adjusts the instrument to operate on one or the other.

  • 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 .

  • David Galef has coined the term morox [XIV, 2] to designate unintentional, inelegant oxymorons such as many fewer problems, largely insignificant , and barely clothed . I collect solecisms of all sorts that I hear on television broadcasts.

  • I enjoyed David Galef's What a Cliché!


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