Example sentences for: suffix

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

  • Recently, however, new systems based on suffix trees, such as RepeatMatch (based on MUMmer [ 11]) and REPuter [ 12, 13], have overcome this size limitation, at least for biologically realistic input sizes.

  • Place names and the like often become verbs when used with an- ize or an - ify suffix: The story was Hollywoodized; The area risks being balkanized; The region was Vaticanized; The decor was Frenchified; The country is becoming Swissified; The immigrant quickly became Americanized; Standard British English is being Cockneyfied .

  • That forms like sale-athon retain the a even after the base element's e demonstrates that the -athon of marathon , rather than the -ethon of telethon , is perceived as the primary form of the suffix, but the matter has not been completely settled: consider alcothon (which I hope was a test of abstinence rather than indulgence).

  • Along with these outright borrowings came hybrids composed of an English root and a French suffix, such as clonage for `cloning,' scorer for `to score,' nurserie for `nursery' (`fish-breeding plant'), and supporteur/supportrice for `supporter.

  • Frontier Province), Kashmir, and Sind (at the same time producing the word pak, meaning “pure”), and adding “stan,” the Persian suffix for the word “country. ”


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