Example sentences for: preposition

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

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

  • To is not the only preposition that can kill.

  • Samuel Pepys, never confused by an American schoolmarm, invariably, so far as I have found, used I instead of me when the pronoun was combined with another pronoun or noun as the object of a verb or preposition.

  • There would have been a far fuller discussion of the preposition question in a separate paragraph, one that would have appeared on screen had I typed in a name, such as Elstree , where it was also relevant.

  • For many years I was under the impression that John Dryden had inveighed against the ending of a sentence with a preposition, and I have included mention of it now and then in my writing.


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