Example sentences for: oxford

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

  • Then we are given frabjous, as in O frabjous day!, which The Concise Oxford allows straightforwardly as meaning delightful, joyous and has provided the adverb, frabjously.

  • Hype in the sense of excessive or false publicity goes back much further than the 1960s (Collingwood's suggested decade of origin)--to at least the 1920s (per the Oxford English Dictionary ), which is the same time that hype is attested to as a verb and noun associated with drug use, and the word is explicitly linked to hypodermic . The OED , the Dictionary of American Slang , the Barnhart Dictionary of New English , and the Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang all make the hypodermic connection.

  • ' ” The Concise Oxford allows both pronunciations.

  • BBC News reports that Oxford University scientists have determined that locusts attract other locusts with chemical signals to amass swarms that can strip a field bare within hours.

  • But Oxford provides no reliable guidance in the whole matter.


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