Example sentences for: homographs

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

  • Heteronyms are also called homographs.

  • One prominent phenomenon is the flaunting use of homographs: words that appear in conventional dictionaries are given a meaning which is not to be derived logically or figuratively from the customary one.

  • Fourth, I think it a mistake to merge under one headword words of distinctly different provenances (that is, homographs), as in gloss . And, finally, there are far too many typographical errors for a book of this sort: under absent : “4nt”; after: “millenium”; loo: “existance.”

  • usually called homographs: quarry, row, well, quail, down, truck, cleave, let , list.

  • If semantic criteria were applied to homographs (which appear only once), like saw , and to polysemic items, like take up, take in, etc. , even the most naive speaker could expand the list considerably.


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