Example sentences for: oxford

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

  • This horror, ruining Arnold's lovely rhythm, actually appears in that otherwise admirable book, the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations .

  • , Oxford Univ.

  • According to the big Oxford, Carroll coined tulgey to designate a wood that is thick, dense, and dark.

  • In the New York Review of Books , Oxford Professor of Poetry James Fenton attacks The New Yorker 's Adam Gopnik for attacking John Richardson's biography of Picasso and for attacking Picasso himself.

  • , niveous/ snowy, lutaceous/muddy ), or in connotation ( maternal/motherly ). [This matter is discussed at some length in the Introduction to my Oxford Thesaurus .]


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