Example sentences for: generic

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

  • On the cover, where the widely read "lead" review once began, there is now a reliably hideous full-page color illustration accompanied by a generic headline.

  • We may not know how to read or write the letters and symbols in Japanese, Chinese, Arabian, or other languages, but we do not have to when we refer to living things, because the generic name and specific name, in Latin, are the same all over the world.

  • You're quite correct that most people view that word as a generic for "dictionary" (although it is defined in at least one--I put the definition in the Random House Webster's College Dictionary a few years back).

  • ERCA primers P1 and P2 were chosen using Oligo 6. These were generic primer sequences, and could be used to amplify any circle sequence.

  • Why not spoil the speculators' game by giving them nothing to speculate about--by replacing pesos and reis with portraits of George Washington (or, if you happen to be European, with generic pictures of bridges and gates--for more on European currency design, see 1997 Slate piece)?


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