Example sentences for: histories

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

  • Often I try to include several proposed versions of a word's origin in the “Word Histories” column.

  • This is made clear to me every time someone discovers that I am a “word man”--that I am an editor on the Dictionary of American Regional English and write a column about word histories in the Atlantic . Inevitably, I am presented with a favourite lexical curiosity and asked where it came from.

  • The conservative British journalist, known for his mammoth histories, writes an old-fashioned "Great Man" chronicle of the United States.

  • So, for instance, the names of the farmed freshwater crayfish, koonac , and marron , have only short histories of usage in English, coincident with their utility, though they were first recorded in the 19th century.

  • Interview data included medical, reproductive, dietary, and lifestyle histories.


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