Example sentences for: strunk

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

  • Fowler noted the problem favoring s 's but made no specific reference to the conversion of proper possessive nouns to adjectives; Strunk and White affirmed the propriety of s's , and Gowers, in The Complete Plain Words , prefers s's , a choice of some importance because his father, the British neurologist Sir William Richard Gowers (1845-1915), is remembered for his column, disease, fasciculus, sign, solution, syndrome, and tract by Dorland.

  • Following the directive of William Strunk's immortal “Omit needless words,” one may tape above one's word processor, “Slash excess syllables.”

  • Sequences were imported into the ARB software package (distributed by W. Ludwig and O. Strunk, Technical University of Munich, Germany; http://www.arb-home.de/) running on a SuSE Linux 6.2 platform.


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