Example sentences for: suffix

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

  • mégalomane, cocaïnomane, héroïnomane, éthéromane, etc.--ending in the similarly pronounced but very different Greek-rooted suffix - mane . ( Belle Epoque specialists will recall the celebrated night-club-performer-cum-anatomical-wonder Le Pétomane, much admired for his ability-- mirabile rectu!

  • One of the oldest, tidiest and least ambiguous methods of verbification is to take a noun and put it to work, either by adding a prefix or suffix as in simplify in the paragraph above, or by merely activating an unadorned and unaffixed substantive, as in streamline .

  • (The usual way, in Windows, is to click on Main, then twice on File Manager; then on the drive, usually A or B, where the disc has been placed; then, move the cursor to the listed program that has the suffix .exe, move it to File, then down the list to Run, and click twice.)

  • This time it is for names ending with the masculine suffix - us, the most recent example to receive publicity in England being Columbus.

  • The suffix - s for nicknames still seems to be used, as in the following, which I have heard in the last year or so:


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