Example sentences for: monolingual

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

  • And how does that stack up against research indicating that second-generation Latinos and Latinas are often monolingual English speakers?

  • Those who are not familiar with this type of dictionary--that is, one that provides learners with grammatical, collocational, and idiomatic information far beyond what might be expected in an ordinary monolingual dictionary-- should familiarize themselves with the well-known precedent, the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Contemporary English , by A.S. Hornby, long a classic in the field.

  • The results are seen on the bookshelves of bookshops throughout the world: adequate but largely pedestrian bilingual dictionaries and a scattering of monolingual works that have been resurrected by greedy publishers who have engaged dryasdust editors to update out-dated, out-of-copyright dictionaries in order to make a fast buck.

  • Preparing a monolingual English dictionary, lexicographers who are native speakers of English may often turn to citations of usage in context to derive or verify senses of some words; but for words whose meanings they already know, they can rely on their own knowledge and use citations for confirmation.

  • It is true that the principles that apply to specialized dictionaries are not the same as those that apply to general dictionaries, either monolingual or bilingual.


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