Example sentences for: galef

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

  • 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.

  • I enjoyed David Galef's What a Cliché!

  • I enjoyed David Galef's definition of backword to mean the modifier added to a previously specific word which has been made generic by the advent of a new technology.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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