Example sentences for: vance

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

  • Most of Vance's neologisms are nouns, the majority of them plants, animals and/or foods.

  • Vance can indeed be master of the ridiculous.

  • But for sheer variety, quantity, and above all charm of his neologisms, I submit that none compare with Jack Vance, a.k.a. John Holbrook Vance.

  • As Jack Rawlins said, ...to make up words that carry just the right scent, that strike the reader as new and familiar simultaneously, is extremely challenging, and Vance is a master at it.

  • Temianka, D., The Jack Vance Lexicon: From Ahulph to Zipangote, Underwood-Miller, 1992.


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