Example sentences for: linguistic

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

  • As with so many political efforts, the committee's most lasting achievement is likely to be linguistic.

  • Foster--who also analyzed Primary Colors last year and accurately identified Joe Klein as the author--discovered the elegy in 1984 and, in last October's issue of PMLA , wrote that it "is formed from textual and linguistic fabric indistinguishable from that of canonical Shakespeare."

  • Now my own children are providing me with new linguistic seeds to plant.

  • The first two parts of this work, the third part of which is a dictionary of 5380 German loanwords in English, begins with a useful Introduction that provides the book with just the right setting, then goes on in Part I with An historical overview by semantic fields and, in Part II, with a Linguistic overview, which treats matters like Phonology and Graphemics, Grammar, Word-Formation Processes, Semantics, Naturalization, and Dialect.

  • In some cases, murder, mayhem, and, to borrow a tasteless euphemism from social conflict, linguistic cleansing have been aroused by language—not by vituperation, cursing, and blasphemy but simply by being in the wrong place at the wrong time speaking a particular language or dialect.


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