Example sentences for: lexicographers

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

  • Whether mainstream lexicographers are harmless is very much open to doubt, but drudges they certainly are.

  • As noted, lexicographers for obvious reasons have far more trouble gathering oral citations than written ones.

  • Preparing a monolingual English dictionary, lexicographers who are native speakers of English may often turn to citations of usage in context to derive or verify senses of some words; but for words whose meanings they already know, they can rely on their own knowledge and use citations for confirmation.

  • There are many other instances of the misuses of citational evidence, not only by users of dictionaries but by lexicographers themselves: there is no way, using the citational materials at present appearing in dictionaries as prima facie evidence, that one would be justified in assuming that a broad statistical segment of English speakers is thereby represented; even the most cursory examination of entries in the OED (which I assume to be the source of Graham's information) will rapidly, ineluctably lead the observer to realize that

  • This is not a problem peculiar to DOSAE ; rather, it is one of the strongest challenges facing lexicographers of a vast number of languages in the twenty-first century, as English continues to spread, influence, and be influenced by languages all over the world in situations of intimate language contact.


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