Example sentences for: single-word

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

  • Hendrickson's book, EWPO for short, covers some standard, single-word entries, some oddities, a number of phrases and expressions, and a good selection of items not covered by most of the other books.

  • Perhaps inspired by its own acronym, ESPRIT insists that each ESPRIT project, however complex its title, choose a single-word acronym by which it may be identified; and ESPRIT itself never refers to projects by their full names, but only by the acronyms.

  • • Find all single-word anagrams: EIPRST yields ESPRIT, PRIEST, RIPEST, SPRITE, STRIPE, TRIPES.

  • But a definition can range from a single-word synonym ( entry 4b(3) : HEADWORD) to the 117 words of W9's definition of vocabulary entry —and beyond!

  • In Grambs's book, the single-word synonyms work fairly well, but, as elsewhere, the system breaks down when trying to anticipate where a user ought to look to find a word: not everyone is likely to choose the same “reverse” concept.


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