Example sentences for: lexicographic

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

  • In a move that, from a lexicographic standpoint, is decidedly un-American, the government set up an official board to rule on and standardize the use of place names, both domestic and foreign.

  • People without lexicographic training who undertake to compile a dictionary run the risk of committing innumerable blunders of the kind that only the seasoned professional knows how to avoid.

  • Aside from its linguistic, lexicographic, and social uses, the Death Dictionary is highly recommended not only for its approach and treatment but as a course of study for any who have contemplated death in the abstract or in its ineluctable reality-- their own or somebody else's.

  • The front matter of both of these dictionaries from Russia includes substantial theoretical essays on the theory of synonymy and on the lexicographic practicalities of arraying and presenting synonyms in dictionary format.

  • My own connection stems from a lifetime of sailing, a brief stint in the WWII US Navy, and an abiding lexicographic concern for terms nautical, the last of which is manifesting itself in the preparation of a historical nautical dictionary.


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