Example sentences for: hodges

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

  • For data that are not normally distributed, Steel's Many-one Rank Test can be much more efficient (Hodges and Lehmann, 1956).

  • If one is fortunate enough to carry one of those Italian names beginning with Bon- or Buon(buono good), for example, one's value is announced to all the world: the parents of Michelangelo Buonarroti (arrota `gain,' from arrogare `to acquire'; the compound, say Hanks and Hodges, was originally bestowed when parents welcomed the birth of a child) probably were not surprised that he turned out so well, although they might have had even higher hopes for his little brother, Buonarroto Buonarroti .

  • In the latter respect it differs from Dunkling and Gosling, who go more for real-life bearers, especially stage and screen celebrities, and from Hanks and Hodges, whose representation of historic bearers is rather restricted.

  • I went to high school--a small school with only a minority of Italians--with a girl named Pochintesta ( poco little, in in, testa head), another named Zucchi (a plural form of zucca squash, or, colloquially, head; Hanks and Hodges say this name was often given to a person of scarce intelligence, as in pumpkinhead), one boy named Chiappa (buttock), and another named Chiappinelli (which may be either an extended diminutive of Chiappa or the diminutive of chiappino , which Battaglia defines as a type of ape).


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