Example sentences for: landau

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

  • As Sidney Landau points out in his excellent book Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography , this is much like assuming that anyone who lives in a house is qualified to be an architecture critic.

  • Other notable buildings include: Alvar Aalto’s Baker House, I. M Pei’s Weisner Building, Green, Dreyfus and Landau Buildings, and Eduardo Catalano’s Stratton Student Center.

  • So let's get the gossip out of the way: Maslin was attractive; early on she dated Steven Spielberg; she got married to Jon Landau, a fellow rock critic who attended a small concert by a dynamic young man from New Jersey and wrote a famously prescient piece announcing, "I saw rock and roll future last night, and its name is Bruce Springsteen," and eventually quit his writing job to manage the Boss.

  • Dictionary editors like you and Anne Soukhanov and Sidney Landau know the fine distinctions that exist among dictionaries.

  • It is curious, though, to find so few references in the Bibliography to articles that have appeared in, for instance, Maledicta , the main repository of scatological analysis, and to such articles as Allen Walker Read's “You Know What,” in American Speech (reprinted in VERBATIM II, 3) and Sidney Landau's “ sexual intercourse in American College Dictionaries” [I, 1].


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