Example sentences for: prescriptive

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

  • In addition, other revisions were made to make the final rule less prescriptive and to allow establishments greater flexibility in meeting the requirements.

  • Such information is not prescriptive or proscriptive, it is descriptive of certain attitudes—right or wrong—about the language and has its proper place in a dictionary.

  • Also, a more prescriptive requirement for manufacturers to monitor the sales and distribution of retail establishments was not imposed because it would have imposed an additional cost of $85 million per year.

  • Generally anti-elitist and anti-authoritarian by declaration, feminist alterers of language find themselves corralled with prescriptive grammarians and linguists.

  • One could argue, charitably, that the movie is meant to be prescriptive, that Barker intends for us to regard the ways in which his subjects delude themselves and thereby learn to see through our own self-delusions.


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