Example sentences for: suffixes

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

  • Inflating him was as simple as tacking the augmentative suffixes -one or -oni --as in Giacomoni --to the root name or its variation to get big James.

  • Adding diminutive suffixes is often a disparaging tactic.

  • 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?

  • Dzhugashvili selected the Russian word for steel, stal', as the root of his revolutionary name, the - in and -ov (-off, -ev) suffixes of Russian surnames being only surname indicators.

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


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