Example sentences for: nonce

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

  • And in most cases, these appear to be expressions doomed to the nonce world.

  • Like many of the entries, both AE and BE-- autohagiography, awfulize, babushkaphobia, babynap, bimbette , etc.--this strikes me as a nonce word, not likely to be found around the house.

  • It sounded like a nonce usage to me till I found it in The Random House Unabridged, Second Edition [RHDII] with a date of 1840-50.

  • For many, it might be impossible to find evidence for their existence outside the single quotation in the OED or similar source, and they might have been nonce coinages.

  • A nonce word, aKOOSHerke , is defined as “Friddish for midwife,’ from which one is to gather that “Friddish’ (which is nowhere explained) stands for a French-Yiddish mixture.


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