Example sentences for: ness

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

  • Notable buildings include the former Bullocks Wilshire department store standing at the corner of Kingsley, and the Franklin Life Insurance building situated at Van Ness and Wilshire.

  • An entry in US commercial dictionary parlance means every headword (that is, main entry set flush left, often in larger boldface type); every inflected form; every run-on entry (the self-evident boldface words consisting of the headword plus a productive ending like - tion , - ly , - ness , etc.); list words (those beginning with a common prefix of transparent meaning like

  • Antimony is so called from Greek antimonos , against single(ness) owing to its readiness to react with other substances, but its chemical symbol is Sb, from Latin stibium , the name of a cosmetic and medicinal powder (antimony sulfide) used by Roman women as a hair blackener for their eyebrows, and in ophthalmology (of which there were many Etruscan specialists, thanks in part to the unhealthy swamps of Rome's Tuscan hinterlands) as an eye ointment.

  • Rather more highbrow entertainment is on offer in the angle between Market Street and Van Ness Avenue, where there is a sprawling complex of municipal, state, and federal buildings known collectively as the Civic Center.

  • There is more sophisticated shopping — for art and antiques, fashion, and designer goods — along Union Street or Chestnut Street west of Van Ness Avenue toward the bay.


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