Example sentences for: proofreaders

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

  • Typesetters in England seem to know that the words Eng-land and Eng-lish are so hyphenated, a practice that has eluded many American compositors and proofreaders, including those working for some of the “best” publishers.

  • On guard against such a potential E.T. viruses is an army of professional proofreaders who, like electronic inspectors at airports searching for concealed weapons, are supposed to weed out errors before the final printing.

  • My other complaint is about compositors (and proofreaders) who set loose lines because they do not know how to hyphenate the word they have carried over to a following line.

  • 1. The headword is syllabified in W , not in L . In older dictionaries the words are syllabified mainly to help in pronouncing them; latterly, syllabication has been used largely to find where a word can be hyphenated at the end of a line of text, though, judging by today's newspapers and magazines, one would be sore put to believe that a dictionary had ever been within the grasp of their editors, proofreaders, or the programmers who wrote the hyphenation programs for the automatic typesetting many of them now employ.

  • 1081, Proofreaders' Marks, in the Random House Webster's College Dictionary, 1991.)


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