Example sentences for: lexicographer

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

  • The idea was accepted, but not the author, for Safire was regarded by the Times as its “resident lexicographer,” the man properly qualified to do the job.

  • Because anyone writing a review of any book ought to be required to delineate the reasons for his approval or disapproval of its style and content, so any editor worth his salt should be able to detect in a properly written, professional review of a dictionary by a lexicographer any untoward bias and to reject such a review (or parts of it) out of hand.

  • It is hard to imagine that this book would be picked up by anyone but a lexicographer or someone interested enough in becoming one to subject himself to such a turgid presentation; in the event, one might assume a certain level of familiarity with the subject.

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

  • It is hard to see what has got into the people at Cassell's, for here is another book--this time a superior one--on which they have practised their onomancy: the original title (1992) was Brewer's Names . At least they have not taken to changing the names of the authors of these books, and this one bears that of the estimable lexicographer and onomastician, Adrian Room.


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