Example sentences for: omit

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

  • What many people forget, or omit, or simply never heard of, is that Lot offers a sop to the crowd: his two virgin daughters.

  • Several readers suggested the addition of that '70s hit, zipless fuck an act of intercourse without an emotional connection, coined by Erica Jong in Fear of Flying . We had originally decided to omit it since zipless was often used on its own to mean passionate but emotionally uninvolved, but it does appear often enough as a set phrase to deserve entry.

  • titles at the end, the filmmakers omit the most important detail of Bergman's and Wigand's current lives: that they're being played by Al Pacino and Russell Crowe in a major Hollywood movie, and that they're big news again.

  • An author may omit letters, perhaps to show clipped gerund forms (singin', goin', whistlin') , to indicate dropped hs ('ello, 'adn't, 'ome) , or lost final ds (husban', tol') .

  • Because general dictionaries either omit proper names altogether or, if they are included, give them short etymological shrift, Room's book deserves to stand on the shelf alongside the best dictionaries in a reader's library.


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