Example sentences for: lexicographers

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

  • Why lexicographers have not used Conversational or its abbreviations, Conv.

  • Under “A,” for example, the lexicographers provide entries for Adam, Ad feminam, ageism, “Ain't I a Woman” (Sojourner Truth's speech), and amniocentesis . “Z” is limited to three entries: Zamani Soweto sisters, Zeitgeist (`Spirit of liberty, equality, and sorority'), and Zugassent (a term for male continence as practised by the Oneida utopian community).

  • Thereafter, I worked closely with the NYAS to gain the participation of linguists and lexicographers in the United States and abroad and to further the purpose of the conference.

  • In the case of wowser there is the tantalizing possibility that a conjectural use of the word occurs in 1879 in just the sort of context that would fit this theory and make its subterranean existance a reality: but all we have to go on is w--s , and not many lexicographers would chance their arm on that!

  • The book under review might well have included something on the subject of exposure in one of the essays collected within its pages, for much of the material selected by lexicographers as source corpora for citations is arrived at subjectively and impressionistically--though I hasten to allow that the subjective and impressionistic maunderings of a good, experienced linguist might well be worth a motherlode of statistics.


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