Example sentences for: texts

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

  • Books were copied by hand prior to the rise of the printing press, and amanuenses were given liberty to rework texts.

  • This professional audience for difficult "texts" created the demand that Pynchon first filled with V. and Gravity's Rainbow , the semiotic monoliths whose mix of scientific imagery, Cold War absurdity, and Joycean allusion provided a kind of full-employment program for a generation of rising postdocs.

  • He is the founder of "reader-response" criticism, which holds that texts don't have intrinsic meaning--meaning is a byproduct of the encounter between reader and text.

  • Our nitpicking exegesis of ancient texts limits our ability to innovate.

  • Fame and fortune awaited those who could reduce windy texts to bite-sized portions.


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