Example sentences for: galef

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

  • 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's “The Niceness Principle” [XVII,4] makes a persuasive case for the phenomenon it describes.

  • I lived David Galef's “Backwords and Newances” [XVI,2], but he certainly is not a techie (from technician, usually electronic technician `one familiar with and capable of dealing with technology')

  • I enjoyed David Galef's What a Cliché!

  • 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.


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