Example sentences for: proofreader

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

  • The bad hyphenations, apparently performed by a (feeble-minded, misprogrammed) computer and not reviewed by a (knowledgeable) proofreader, are inexcusable in a book of this kind: “buc-ket” (at - ful ); prop-osed (at irony ); “sing-ular” ( at kind of ); “trad-itionally” (at or); “ostentati-ous” (at ostensible ), etc.

  • His two most Borgesian works are The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis (1984), an hommage to the great Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa, and The History of the Siege of Lisbon (1989), in which a proofreader inserts a single word--"not"--into a single sentence in a book he's checking, thereby questioning every celebrated theme of Portuguese history.

  • There's a revealing moment in The History of the Siege of Lisbon , when the shy proofreader hero, a bachelor in his 50s, is working at home.

  • The television plays silently in the background, and the proofreader looks over and notices that, of all people in the world, Leonard Cohen has appeared on the screen.

  • My only cavil is with the compositor's (editor's, and proofreader's) apparent ignorance of the accepted hyphenation of the word English : after, not before the -g-.


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