Example sentences for: lexicography

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

  • It is possible that much of the supposed humor in Webster's dictionary is unintentional--a 20th century response to his earnestly homiletic approach to lexicography.

  • You publish articles on economics, opera, Broadway musicals, and lexicography without cheeky "background" pieces.

  • Green's treatment of the Modern World of lexicography is very thin on the ground.

  • Now that Sidney I. Landau has become entrenched as Editor in Chief at Cambridge University Press in New York, we are begining to see reflexes of his expertise in lexicography and linguistics.

  • The tradition began with the influential work of Clarence L. Barnhart, dean of American lexicography, who at the age of 89 is still active in the profession.


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