Example sentences for: noun

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

  • My hunch also tells me that there are more people who use media as a singular noun than there are people who write bristling letters to the editor insisting on its immutable plurality—which is to say, a lot.

  • Almost any generic noun can be broken down into named subdivisions.

  • When Imogen rhapsodizes on the immensity of her love for her banished husband she insists it is beyond beyond . For many years I have been captivated by that phrase, created by the doubling of a fairly ordinary preposition/noun, now magically employed in just that relationship.

  • A favorite is using the present participle as a noun ( parking any parking facility; dancing dancing hall; camping camp site; planning budget or plan of action; mailing batch of junk mail; living living room).

  • Actually, the German noun Stapel is used much more precisely than its English counterpart, as in such terms as Gabelstapler `forklift truck' and, more poetically, as in Hochstapler `swindler.


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