Example sentences for: pinker

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

  • This week, the introduction of a new Reading topic: Steven Pinker's The Language Instinct .

  • Aural equivalents of these trompes l'oeil are socalled oronyms— trompes l'oreille —which Pinker describes in Language Instinct (New York, 1994, p. 188), citing such examples as, The stuffy nose can lead to problems The stuff he knows...; It's a doggy-dog world It's a dog-eat-dog world; A girl with colitis goes by A girl with kaleidoscope eyes (Beatles' song); Gladly the cross-eyed bear Gladly the cross I'd bear (traditional Christian hymn).

  • Book -- How the Mind Works , by Steven Pinker.

  • Critics find the book entertaining, praising digressions on gambling, laughing, and love, as well as Pinker's pop-culture references.

  • "He is the Mr. Magoo of scientific theory, genially oblivious to everything he can't or won't see" (Daniel Mendelsohn, the New York Observer ). (In Slate , Steven Pinker praises the book.


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