Words similar to genitive

Example sentences for: genitive

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

Declaim that line of transliterated Greek, and you can listen to Homer's cunning selection of words and genitive case capture the twanging release of Ulysses' silver bow.
As the standards slip in the marketplace, so they move on down the slippery slope in the education place, with older, wiser, more dedicated, better educated teachers gradually but ineluctably replaced by those who have not a scintilla of enlightenment regarding the meaning of contrary-to-fact condition, comma splice , or double genitive .
The reason for this variation is that when the Cyrillic letter that represents our English v -sound is final in a word, as in the nominative case for Gorbachev , it is unvoiced and sounds like f (or ff for good measure); when an inflectional ending is added, as in Gorbacheva (the genitive case), that same letter is voiced, like v .