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

The recently published Oxford Thesaurus , by Laurence Urdang, contains thousands of example sentences to illustrate usage, including a sprinkling of quirky specimens, all from the American Edition; these were excised from the British Edition on the grounds that they were distracting
A Dictionary of Surnames is thus more like a thesaurus than an alphabetical dictionary.
In contrast, the more conservative (?) Scots Thesaurus , by Iseabail McLeod (Aberdeen University Press, 1990), lists only 50 alternatives for drunk , including smeekit, souple , and tosie , though omitting similes and extensive metaphors (which probably abound).
Webster's Electronic Thesaurus
These are really old-time clues in new apparel; once wise to the system and having enough vocabulary entries in one's head (or a thesaurus handy on the shelf), it is not too difficult to decode them and arrive at the answer.