Example sentences for: lexicographer

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

  • If sobersidedness make not an attractive man, it certainly need not have affected Gove's proficiencies as a lexicographer.

  • The committee of the Present-Day English Section of the Modern Language Association] then coopted Mr. Laurence Urdang, a professional lexicographer and the envoy to the Academy of the other group; he had been particularly helpful with practical suggestions, and in getting financial support from publishers.

  • As a practicing lexicographer (I have complied two Arabic bilingual dictionaries with illustrative sentences), but more important, as one who continually has trouble retrieving certain English words from my mental lexicon, I consider this book a real gold mine.

  • But it must be said that space is at a premium in these expensive books, and if, say, a dozen citations are found for each of the spellings thickwitted and thick-witted , one can be sure that no lexicographer, thrifty of space, will display the variant, whichever he perceives that to be.

  • This survey and its bibliographical material will prove an indispensable guide to any lexicographer interested in underworld slang.


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