Example sentences for: hendrickson

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  • Hendrickson is a poet and a productive author of books on language, among them Literary Life and Other Curiosities (Viking, 1981), American Talk (Viking, 1986; Penguin, 1987), and the Facts On File Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origin (FOF, 1987), the last of which was favorably reviewed in VERBATIM [XV, 4,27].

  • I fear that Hendrickson relied too readily on the OED2e , in this instance, for that source mentions mustangs in its first quotation, from American Speech , Volume I, 1925.

  • Riding on the success of their breakout Fever In Fever Out (1996), they've turned in another smooth 'n' mellow album, but this one is "a more eclectic mix of hip-hop, pop and rock sounds wrapped around sensual vocals" (Tad Hendrickson, CMJ ).

  • Hendrickson cannot be held accountable for failing to trace many of the expressions to their source: even though many are not much more than a hundred years old, there is no way to document them.

  • Hendrickson does his research carefully and he writes definitions that are eminently informative and readable, often including a useful quotation; his entry for hogan :


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