Example sentences for: margalit

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

  • In Ha'aretz , Dan Margalit wrote that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had made a major political miscalculation at Wye, having made the Palestinian state an established fact in the minds of the Israeli right--"certainly not the achievement he planned to be remembered for."

  • But the one thing that's been most striking recently is the response to an "On Language" column by Margalit Fox in the New York Times Magazine . Ms Fox, filling in for William Safire, wrote about a common "language myth": that some dialects are intrinsically better than others.

  • Israel's National Parks Authority was uneasy about a proposed new attraction but, after consulting church authorities, head of planning Zeev Margalit concluded that it would "not hurt the feelings of the Christian tourists and it would not be too kitchy, so we decided to go with it."

  • As for the Margalit Fox article you mention, I did read it and found it an interesting summary of what we might call "the linguist's dilemma": People want linguists to tell them how to be correct, but at the same time, they resist intervention, taking the attitude, "Who are you to tell me what to do?"


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