Example sentences for: heinlein

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

  • At least since Lewis Carroll intrigued his readers with Jabberwocky, there have been writers—Robert Heinlein and Dr. Seuss, to name two—who deliberately minted new words.

  • But some have escaped and spread like weeds to become part of the language: Heinlein's grok, for example.

  • Those remote control arms with which laboratory personnel handle toxic, radioactive, or infections substances are called waldos (from Robert Heinlein's Waldo , 1942): the title charcter, Waldo F. Jones, who has a crippling disease, invents these devices to amplify the strength of his wasted mucles.

  • ' It is not clear why Heinlein chose such an unpretty word for such a beautiful concept (maybe it is euphonious to the Martian auditory apparatus); it has, nevertheless, caught on.

  • per Robert A. Heinlein.


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