Example sentences for: stems

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

  • Etymologists say it originally meant dueño de una casa `lord, or master, of a house' and is a contraction of duen de casa . Duen is the apocopated (cut-off) form of dueño , which stems from the Latin dominus . As the Spanish word evolved, the de was suffixed to the duen , the casa was omitted altogether, and el duende thus became “the lord of the house.”

  • China's current saber rattling, Scheer reasons, stems from an inferiority complex about its relatively primitive nuclear arsenal.

  • 18 The advantage of using VMI programs stems from the retailer and manufacturer working together to determine a flow of shipments that optimizes the economics of the two parties as a system.

  • My opposition stems from exposure to ordinary people as they make decisions about whether to undergo surgery, to take their medicines, and so on.

  • Culturebox is an avowed fan of the great American huckster tradition, whence Modern Library stems.


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