Example sentences for: proofreading

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

  • The Grauniad (Guardian: the pejorative is said to reflect something wrong with its proofreading).

  • The general production of the book is poor: the paper has too much “see-through,” causing the type on the back of a page to interfere with the legibility; the type is too gray; the definitions are run into one another, with semicolons in place of definition numbers, making it difficult to distinguish senses and requiring one to read through a long entry before coming to the sense sought; it is almost impossible to discover where a new part of speech begins; subentries of idiomatic phrases and phrasal verbs are given the same prominence as headwords, making them easy to find but detracting from the headword treatment; and the substandard typography has created many loose lines which poor proofreading has failed to catch.

  • The replicative polymerase of herpes simplex virus (HSV) is comprised of catalytic (Pol) and processivity subunits (UL42) [ 9 11 ] . HSV Pol is responsible, in concert with other viral proteins, for regulating the fidelity of DNA replication by selecting the correct nucleotides for incorporation and by proofreading or editing mispaired nucleotides [ 20 ] . The Pol subunit contains intrinsic 3'-5' exonuclease activity [ 14 15 16 ] and the N-terminal region of the polypeptide encoding this function is highly conserved in other polymerases, containing three segments referred to as Exo motifs [ 3 26 ] .

  • In a Prl suppressor strain, however, the proofreading function would be compromised and the mutant protein would be exported [ 8 ] . In the experiments described here, we tested this hypothesis by examining the export of such a cytoplasmic protein with a folding mutation.

  • Deubiquitinases, such as Rpn11, serve as proofreading devices for reversal of fortune at various stages of the process, right up to the final step before irreversible degradation by the proteasome.


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