Example sentences for: suffixes

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

  • It used a “hashing” technique, storing word roots, suffixes, and prefixes.

  • Chapter 6 discusses, under A Few More Words, a number of suffixes ( -trix, -ess , etc.) and words ( hero/ heroine, alumnus/alumna/alumni/alumnae , etc.) that apparently offend the authors: they campaign for the elimination of la différence . My own attitude is that I find such terms not in the least denigrating: Why should a woman object to being called a heroine, a divorcée, or an actress any more than being called a female or a woman?

  • One cannot easily translate these pejorative suffixes into English: they are a malignly ingenious way of turning an otherwise perfectly inoffensive name into an inherently insulting one, of saying James , for instance, in such a sneering way that no add-on adjectives are needed to convey your obvious but unspecified disdain.

  • The kinesin superfamily in humans and mice is comprised of at least 45 members, designated with the prefix KIF [ 26 ] . Based on this naming system we have assigned the name KIF27 to this new family member with the suffixes A, B and C to designate the splice variants described above (figure 3B).

  • A morpheme is the smallest unit of meaning in a language; a bound morpheme is one that appears only in combination with another morpheme, such as the suffixes and prefixes of English.


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