Example sentences for: unabridged

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

  • Some thirty years ago, I proposed that the most relevantly useful attribute of citations was their exposure , that is, the number of people who, on the basis of readership statistics, could be assumed to be reading and listening to the manifestations of language presented in books, newspapers, magazines, and radio and television broadcasts [ Word , XXVI, 3: An Unabridged Word Count of English].

  • Etymologies in the OED, The Random House Unabridged , and Kluge's Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache have cognates of balagan/balcony popping up in Slovene ( blazina ), Greek, and most significantly in Lithuanian ( balǽienas ), purportedly the most conservative of the Indo-European languages.

  • I had argued, as does the unabridged Random House Dictionary , that to quit or go cold turkey probably developed from to talk cold turkey , a variant of to talk turkey , that is, to speak bluntly about something unpleasant.

  • The editors would have been on safer ground had they simply followed the wording in the Random House Unabridged , to wit:

  • Users of the L will be far better off if spared the technique of defining in the W , carried over from the Third Unabridged , in which the full explanatory definition is abandoned in favor of a scattering of synonyms set in SMALL CAPITALS, which, more often than not, are likely to lead the user who has the paitence to pursue them to other words defined in the same inept manner.


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