Example sentences for: prefix

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

  • Prefix almost qualifies; at least it illustrates a prefix.

  • Prequel takes the word sequel (Latin sequela meaning what follows), breaks it into se- and -quel , and then combines -quel with the prefix pre-.

  • Such a perplexing word might be called a contronym, using the prefix contra- (from the Latin contra meaning against), or possibly a contradictonym.

  • Al and Tipper Gore have helped by saying they've each had "counseling" but, as Frank Rich has noted, Tipper's use of such euphemisms and the avoidance a "professional title [that] might include the prefix 'psych-' ...

  • An entry in US commercial dictionary parlance means every headword (that is, main entry set flush left, often in larger boldface type); every inflected form; every run-on entry (the self-evident boldface words consisting of the headword plus a productive ending like - tion , - ly , - ness , etc.); list words (those beginning with a common prefix of transparent meaning like


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