Example sentences for: thesauruses

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

  • Those who enjoy word play—which includes certain puzzle solvers who seem to need all the help they can find that is not already provided by dictionaries, special puzzlers' reference books, thesauruses, etc.—should find Endangered a useful, welcome addition to their libraries.

  • Owing to my being unable to find the full bibliographical information for it in my infallible library cataloguing system, I cannot provide more than the fact that a book published several years ago by Scarecrow Press, Slang and Jargon of Drugs and Drinks, by R. A. Spears, was recalled when I saw the Death Dictionary: they are similar only in that they are both thesauruses (in Roget's sense of the word--that is, they contain all sorts of direct and oblique references to the subjects they cover).

  • Many of them also talk of octopi, unaware that the “correct” Greek plural is octopodes or that the accepted anglicized one is octopuses, the simple English plural - s or - es , as in thesauruses, campuses, formulas, indexes, and memorandums.


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