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Example sentences for: headwords

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

To put the extent of the work into perspective, the average college (or desk) dictionary, like the Random House Webster, Webster New World, American Heritage , and Collins English dictionaries, contain about 175,000 entries, which translates into approximately 85-90,000 headwords.
To give you a sample of what's to come, let me mention a few representative headwords from Volume IV—chosen simply because I like them.
As in other British dictionaries, headwords are not syllabified, so one cannot use dictionaries in England to determine where a word may be conventionally hyphenated.
Thus, the user has to come to the dictionary already aware that peace-offering and peace-pipe are hyphenated, so they are listed under peace , while peacemaker and peacetime are solid, hence are headwords: that is not very helpful if, as is most likely, the user merely wanted to discover whether the word he was seeking is spelled with a hyphen, as two words, or solid.
In case you didn't recognize those Volume IV headwords, here they are again: