Example sentences for: onomatoplazia

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

  • Mr. Thomas B. Lemann points out that the transliteration of the opening quotation of “Onomatoplazia” [XV, 1] contains the following errors:

  • This charmer is Shoshonean in origin, an example of the onomatoplazia which readily occurs when the etymology in question is not from your usual, garden variety, linguistic roots.

  • The onomatoplazia of inflammable is so common that flammable , or even flamable is now commonly substituted, especially on trucks.

  • In his delightful article, “Onomatoplazia” [XV, 1], Chester Delaney writes, “ analysand ...

  • The “lowing herd” (“Onomatoplazia”) wound slowly in the first verse of “Elegy in a Country Churchyard,” by Thomas Gray, not Oliver Goldsmith.


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