Example sentences for: preposition

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

  • When Imogen rhapsodizes on the immensity of her love for her banished husband she insists it is beyond beyond . For many years I have been captivated by that phrase, created by the doubling of a fairly ordinary preposition/noun, now magically employed in just that relationship.

  • In other words, as he says, it is an OE personal name plus the element throp . He adds: “The initial T- disappeared from the 14th century due to confusion with the preposition at .”

  • Morrow , Kansas, was first named after a state senator, but this name had to be changed to Morrowville “because of semantic confusion when juxtaposed with a common preposition.

  • There were also some other parts of speech: one definition for the preposition and three for the verb (participial) senses.


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