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Example sentences for: mention
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Incidentally, it turns out that a recent column was absolutely wrong in saying that the NYT hadn't deigned to mention that Ralston's career stall was due to an adulterous affair he'd been forced to own up to.
(No waiting around for stale, shopworn news and reviews to be delivered once a week and days late by certain newsmagazines we don't care to mention.)
Then we are told that heinie is “spelled as if it were Yiddish,” which shows how much Thorne knows about German spelling and pronunciation; the variant hinie is not shown (the word is, after all, a diminutive of behind: the heinie spelling probably cropped up during WWI in confusion with the similarly pronounced Heinie , a synonym for Bosch or Kraut , short for Hein-rich ). At Hicksville it might have been fun to mention that it is a placename in New York (Nassau County) and in several other states.
First off, everybody notices that he didn't mention the I-word at all.
But our earlier professional friendliness did not extend to swapping details of our private lives, although he does mention the kids.
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