Example sentences for: oed
How can you use “oed” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
I am prejudiced, I know, but while I find the use of impact as a verb an interesting linguistic development, I consider it execrable style for literate speakers and (especially) writers; yet it appears in Rose's Preface, where one can also find a transitive use for coruscate ( OED2e please note).
Cognitive and intellectual are synonyms for the faculty of knowing ( OED ): use of both words is redundant.
Before the OED , no one could have easily located examples to dispute him, though Richardson, Johnson (as revised by Todd and Latham), and Webster (as revised by Goodrich) all gave historical usages.
Kedgeree , a vegetable curry, popular with seamen, has, notwithstanding tarry appetites, not the remotest connection with matters nautical; kickback is shown by the OED2e to be a 20th-century coinage, and there is not evidence to suggest it ever had anything to do with maritime affairs; and kite , for which the OED2e includes a 7th-century quotation for the (original) bird sense, found a metaphoric application to sail not much before the middle of the 19th century.
the OED says nothing about swivet either, but in a swivet has meant `hot and bothered' for generations in the South.
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