Example sentences for: thesaurus

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

  • The standard indexing practice is based on NLM MeSH and CHIROSH [ 32 ] . Chiropractic librarians but not the chiropractic practitioners use this CHIROSH thesaurus.

  • In Roget's Thesaurus , words associated with falsity outnumber those associated with veracity by about 5-to-1.

  • 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

  • Similarly, a public interest group representative said that it would be very helpful to have a regulatory taxonomy or thesaurus relating similar terms, which could be used to improve the quality of searches in different agencies' search engines.

  • Other biomedical databases that include CAM literature, such as CINAHL - Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature [ 11 ] and MANTIS - Manual, Alternative and Natural Therapy Index System [ 12 ] , also use MeSH as their standard thesaurus with a list of supplement terms in their subject areas.


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