Example sentences for: lexicographer

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

  • Adrian Room, a well-known and proficient lexicographer and compiler of all sorts of collectables has produced a book that some might find enormously entertaining, or useful, or both, but which I find somewhat tedious.

  • On the other hand, perhaps the author deliberately refrained from using this title, since he is not a professional lexicographer and his “dictionary’ has every mark of an amateurish piece of work.

  • With all the dialects and long-lived speakers of English today, the lexicographer risks inaccuracy in labeling a word, phrase, or sense obsolete or archaic : there is sure to be someone who speaks a form of English in which the expression is extant.

  • The Random House lexicographer Jesse Sheidlower has found a reference to it in a passage from Varieties of Religious Experience , in which William James quotes words of Voltaire, for which he gives the date 1773: "All comes out at the end of the day, and all comes out still more even when all the days are over."

  • The aims of a lexicographer, these days, is undoubtedly to be as objective and exact as possible when dealing with concepts as intangible as the meanings of words.


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