Example sentences for: unabridged

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

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

  • The words, one supposes, were chosen from an unabridged dictionary by a parrot with a stick in its beak.

  • Unabridged

  • At a rough guess, the NSOED contains about 200,000 such “entries,” or some twenty per cent fewer than the Random House Unabridged [ RHDU ], the popular dictionary nearest in size.

  • In the early 1960s, while I was directing the compilation and editing of The Random House Dictionary of the English Language-Unabridged Edition, it occurred to me that it would be extremely useful to have a listing of a large number of English words alphabetized from the right—that is, listed in normal spelling order but with words ending in a followed by those ending in b, and so on, to those ending in z.


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