Example sentences for: inflected

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

  • The OED on Compact Disc has a facility for finding blank tile substitutions, but it does not include all possible inflected forms.

  • Words that are or become nouns in Greek are assigned articles indicating gender, and some words are also inflected like Greek nouns; but the majority, become uninflected neuters, which, anyway, have fewer inflections than feminines or masculines, so that a change in the article is often the only indication of case and syntax.

  • An entry in US commercial dictionary parlance means every headword (that is, main entry set flush left, often in larger boldface type); every inflected form; every run-on entry (the self-evident boldface words consisting of the headword plus a productive ending like - tion , - ly , - ness , etc.); list words (those beginning with a common prefix of transparent meaning like

  • In all this talk about entries, it must be remembered that the (accepted) practice in counting dictionary entries in the U.S. (and becoming the standard in the U.K. as well) is to count not only headwords, or main entries, but inflected forms, variants, changes in part of speech, run-on words (like cunningly and cunningness under cunning ), and list words (like reaccuse and reacquire ), which need no definition.

  • In the wild--that is, in the more freewheeling and inflected realm of spoken language-- groovy thrives in a largely ironic state; the use of the word requires a context of wavelength synchrony between speaker and listener.


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