Example sentences for: skeat

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

  • I found the following article by my grandfather, Professor Walter W. Skeat, among some of his papers.

  • Here is Skeat fuming at a correspondent who had the gall to suggest that the origin of the Ox - in Oxford , long a bone of etymological contention, could be traced through Usk to a connection with Gaelic uisque `water,' as in uisquebaugh literally `water of life,' from which we get whiskey (etymologically speaking):

  • Lest one might be deceived into taking the preceding to be a pleasantry, even as late as 1909 (at seventy-four), Skeat's contempt for those who knew less than he was undiminished:

  • In the issue of June 10, Skeat pounced:

  • Skeat has said--I defy either the one or the other, I say, to find any material difference between us.


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