Example sentences for: lexicon

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

  • Hindi has, in fact, been a more fruitful source of new words for the English lexicon than most people realize, a not unnatural result of the centuries of British rule in India.

  • Thus we now have the big A as well as the A-word and the M-question as well as the M-word . Perhaps we shall see such forms as the little A , the new A , or the A-option . If these variants prove productive, the lexicon of one-letter words could “spread like wild flowers,” as Sam Goldwyn once said.

  • This is why, for example, the expression, The teacher has it in for me, falls through the cracks of lexicon and grammar.

  • Extending the lexicon to describe G1/S checkpoint machinery

  • Besides the lexicon, grammar--especially syntax--has changed somewhat, too, though again not so much as to be incomprehensible to the average modern reader.


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