Example sentences for: lexicographers

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

  • 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.

  • 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!

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

  • In addition to their work in the Dictionary Companion , well regarded by lexicographers and other serious word people, the family Barnhart and their colleagues have directed much effort over the years to tracking and recording new English, and this latest publication is another in that line.

  • Older dictionaries labeled the term Jewess as offensive, but I have heard Jewish women refer to themselves using the word, evidently oblivious to what lexicographers identified as insulting.


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