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Example sentences for: lederer

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

Although I greatly enjoyed Richard Lederer's article, I fear that one of his paragraphs is a load of brass monkey balls.
In response to Richard Lederer's “Gunning for the English Language” [XV, 1], Mr. Charles Kluth, Baltimore, points out that the difference between the coefficients of expansion of iron and brass—a mere 1/64th inch—would be insufficient to cause the (cannon) balls to be dislodged from a brass “monkey” and survive as a justification for the origin of cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey .
Examples taken from Mr. Lederer's list are “lining” for lightning , “lays” for ladies , “forced” for forest , “please” for police , and “torment” for tournament .
In his treatise on words and expressions derived from firearms [XV,1], Richard Lederer was often correct in his selection of words but was often wrong as to their meanings and derivations.
Lederer understood the expression go off half cocked to mean `futile gesture' because the flintlock is unlikely to spark.