Example sentences for: merriam-

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

  • Such a move had, indeed, taken place many years before Philip Gove's editorship of the MW-III and is evidenced in such works as the Merriam-Webster Collegiate, Webster's New World, and American College dictionaries, among others.

  • The Merriam-Webster Unabridged says bumfuzzle is an "alteration of English dialect, 'dumfoozle' and 'dumfound.

  • Even the permissive Merriam-Webster III , while remaining tight-lipped about usage, condescends to offer see IMPLY at definition 4 of infer .

  • "Often," he says, drawing on Merriam-Webster's voluminous citation files, "groovy is used in reference to something from, or reminiscent of, the 1960s (clothing, spiritualism, things that glow in black light), but just as often (actually, more often) the word appears to be used in reference to the contemporary scene.

  • The sources were (mainly) the Merriam-Webster Unabridged, Second Edition, and, in addition, as number of other specialized medical, scientific, and other dictionaries.


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