Example sentences for: suffix

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

  • This latter convention was adopted because a genomic record may contain more than one protein kinase gene or gene fragment, in which case the name of the gene closest to the 5' end of the published sequence would bear the suffix '_EPK1', the next would end in '_EPK2', and so on.

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

  • There are, indeed, many words invented from pseudo-English with the suffix - man (e.g.

  • As a suffix it survives in churchyard, dockyard , and shipyard .

  • 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!


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