Example sentences for: substantive

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

  • This apparent reference to Lewinsky is the only substantive addition to the second part of the document.

  • Some of his colleagues' dismay is simply jealousy of his entrepreneurship, but some is more substantive.

  • ' " The Review 's editors concurred: "It is hard to take seriously academics who condemn an independent scholar without making a single substantive criticism of his work."

  • It is used to describe compounds composed of an adjective and a substantive so as to form, principally, a possessive adjective, like bahuvrihi itself; it also forms a compound that is different grammatically from its head member and, particularly, plurals that function as singular nouns, as in lazy-bones, sly-boots .

  • Participants stated that the quality of audits can be adversely affected by "time and fee pressures" that lead to less substantive auditing.


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