Example sentences for: one-letter

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

  • Below are the words and meanings noted since an earlier account of new one-letter words in the Summer, 1987, issue of VERBATIM.

  • Thus we now have the big A as well as the A-word and the M-question as well as the M-word . Perhaps we shall see such forms as the little A , the new A , or the A-option . If these variants prove productive, the lexicon of one-letter words could “spread like wild flowers,” as Sam Goldwyn once said.

  • Richard Bauerls writes interestingly about the recent proliferation of “one-letter words” [XIV, 1; XV, 1].

  • One-letter words are proliferating despite the limits of our alphabet and the possibility of misunderstandings arising from multiple meanings.

  • Perhaps most promising in expanding the range of meanings for one-letter words are variant forms.


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