Example sentences for: simes

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

  • The third consists of illustrative quotations (where available) from other texts, mostly from Simes's own files.

  • Simes gives a full account of these glossaries, and then turns to the development of dictionaries of underworld slang from the 17th century to the present.

  • A valuable feature of this book is Simes's lengthy introduction devoted to “The Literature of Crime” and “The Language and Lexicography of Crime.”

  • Simes discovered this glossary in 1989 among the papers of the Australian novelist Kylie Tennant at the National Library of Australia.

  • Thirty-five wrote a Preface to The Argot (included by Simes as an appendix), and he makes some interesting observations about the kind of material he collected.


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