Example sentences for: quotations

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

  • Notable is the term illustrative , used to describe the quotations accompanying the definitions: aside from their mixed success in serving to illustrate, quotations served a somewhat different purpose in the OED (and, indeed, in their application in some other dictionaries): they were the source matrix from which the definitions were derived.

  • This is truly a quotable book of quotations, many from more modern writers than one might expect to find in other sources.

  • Last year, Slate reported that in parts of Locked in the Cabinet , his memoir of his term as labor secretary, Reich fabricated quotations and distorted events.

  • Quotations in the text will be found in The Australian National Dictionary, a dictionary of Australianisms on historical principles , ed. W.S. Ramson, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1988.

  • Cassell Dictionary of Cynical Quotations


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