Example sentences for: lexicographers

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

  • Consider how long it took lexicographers to include four-letter words in their dictionaries; yet we know from long experience with spoken English that a researcher five hundred years hence would be wrong to conclude that those terms were invented or even came into general use at the end of the 20th century.

  • Linguists (and lexicographers) try to avoid “loaded” terms in the labeling of words and senses in dictionaries.

  • For lexicographers, this manifests itself most annoyingly in the poor state of dictionary reviewing.

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

  • As for the answer, it is better to avoid very learned or rare words unknown to all but a few lexicographers.


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