Example sentences for: one-word

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

  • But that is as near as you can come to a one-word translation of the meaning.

  • They involve Dada nose-thumbing, Expressionist brio, an American appreciation of pure funk, a flâneur 's eye for chance and juxtaposition in the streets, a sensualist's feeling for the most outré kinds of texture, and a scopophiliac's unquenchable thirst for images, all kinds, right now, from industrial logos to comic strips to postage stamps to Velázquez's Rokeby Venus . (He also, incidentally, has quite an ear, capable of doing more with a one-word title-- Rebus , Currency , Interview , Barge , Express --than most writers.)

  • (There are even one-word clues, some of them particularly witty.)

  • In addition to horario, proyecto , and programa , mentioned by Mr. Cassidy (and the corresponding verbs, proyectar, programar ), Spanish has the very useful one-word equivalents calendario, agenda, and diario (for daily schedule, of course).


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