Example sentences for: three-word

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

  • Young Plotz had a three-word suggestion that doesn't bear repeating.

  • Your regular column "Summary Judgment" bears the subtitle "Reviewers reviewed" but, in fact, it does not resemble the "review of reviewers" that used to run in Spy as much as it resembles a "review revue" (a title previously used by the paper I work for, the Stranger , when we condensed reviews from The New Yorker , Rolling Stone , the Village Voice , and others into three-word blurbs to run in a table atop our film listings).

  • The two objections I see with this would-be super-short supersentence are, first, the highly elliptical and not terribly idiomatic omission of any overt identification of the clausal status of the word painful , and second, the analysis of the thoroughly idiomatic three-word phrase, you're disgusted by as an adjective clause containing a participial phrase and a rather elliptical prepositional phrase.


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