Example sentences for: phobe

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

  • One subcategory, "Jews on Stage, Screen, Musicians, Artists, Writers, etc.," lists hundreds of names along with capsule comments, an odd melange of minutiae, misinformation, and admiration so befuddling it's tough to tell if the list was assembled by -phobe or -philo Semites.

  • One might well counter that words containing those elements are therefore not common enough to merit inclusion, but is that suffi- cient reason to omit - mane words ( balletomane ), - bund words ( moribund ), and all words ending in - phobe or - phile ? I believe that to create a truly useful work, even acknowledging its restrictions, the author should have considered matters other than raw frequency, the criterion applied for “use in the classroom or at home.”


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