Example sentences for: roget

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

  • Other semantic categories have been set forth by Roget; still others by March in his Thesaurus ; and thematic arrangements have appeared in words like Picturesque Expressions, Allusions , and other books prepared by and under the direction of this reviewer.

  • In Roget's Thesaurus , words associated with falsity outnumber those associated with veracity by about 5-to-1.

  • Owing to my being unable to find the full bibliographical information for it in my infallible library cataloguing system, I cannot provide more than the fact that a book published several years ago by Scarecrow Press, Slang and Jargon of Drugs and Drinks, by R. A. Spears, was recalled when I saw the Death Dictionary: they are similar only in that they are both thesauruses (in Roget's sense of the word--that is, they contain all sorts of direct and oblique references to the subjects they cover).


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