Example sentences for: lexical

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

  • For a mechanical and therefore objective lexical comparison I did a spelling check with my Q&A software on the first two paragraphs of Time's August 7, 1989, cover story on anchor woman Diane Sawyer and on the slightly longer first entry in Pepys's Diary , dated January 1, 1660.

  • Unlike GC analysis, lexical analysis establishes a clear threshold above or below which we can infer the species of origin, and a confidence level for an inference can readily be assigned.

  • The current PMLA contains arguments against Shakespeare's authorship on both lexical and aesthetic grounds.

  • Comparative lexical analysis

  • But the larger vocabulary of English is irrelevant in two respects: much of this larger vocabulary is esoteric, exotic, pedantic, or otherwise as foreign to everyday English usage as Chinese; and whereas vocabulary is quantified by words, the expressive units of French tend to be phrases, such as chemin de fer, joie de vivre , and raton laveur . By the usual lexical reckoning one could say that French has no word for rail-road or raccoon .


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