Example sentences for: nonce

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

  • Recordwoman , if it was not a nonce word and is still in use, may be an example of this: though obviously feminine, it was uninflected, whereas lady , a Greek resident of much longer standing, has acquired all the inflections of a feminine noun.

  • Eliot's--an entry that runs on for two and a half pages), the name of just one Yiddish theatrical figure, Boris Tomashefsky , Hebrew literary works ( Zohar ), nonce formations ( money/shmoney , which takes up two pages), misspelled place names to indicate mispronunciation ( BRANzvil , for Brownsville , a section of Brooklyn), Yiddish words that are never used in English ( FUHLKStimlech `folksy,' guht `God,' ich starb `I'm dying'), encyclopedic terms ( black Jews ), and nonexistent words ( who-er “defined’ by the author as “Not exactly Yiddish, but the New Yorkish pronunciation of whore’).

  • William Safire, who once addressed the phrase in passing, seemed to think it a nonce expression, enjoying an ephemeral vogue.

  • As well as the nonce , the grass informer is also in danger, such danger being especially acute if the offender is dragged into a pad (a.k.a. peter cell) out of sight and hearing of the kangas (short for kangaroo , rhyming slang for screw ).

  • 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.


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