Example sentences for: lexicographic

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

  • 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.

  • Rather, it constitutes what publishers call a “package,” that is, it contains a fair amount of lexicographic material but little or nothing that is original.

  • The mainstream lexicographic minds that cut far and away the most capers to relieve the drudgery are those that have compiled Chambers English Dictionary over the decades [Edinburgh; latest edition, 1988].

  • The lexicographic mind, Ambrose Bierce observed in one of his newspaper columns, is a merely human affair and will occasionally cut its capers.

  • That is why virtually every American dictionary of any shape, size, provenance, comprehensiveness, quality, and lexicographic persuasion is likely to be called a Webster these days.


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