Example sentences for: wentworth

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

  • Only the second of those works is by Mathews; the first is by Harold Wentworth.

  • In spite of the alternate g'dong cited by Wentworth and Flexner, the noun gedunk --as spoken on the U.S.S.

  • There is support, in both the OED 2nd Supplement and the Dictionary of American Slang , by Wentworth and Flexner, for Tony Thorne's definition, in the Bloomsbury Dictionary of Contemporary Slang [XVII, 3], of `callow youth' for gunsel . That appears to be the primary meaning of the word, whose suggested definition is from Yiddish genzel, gantzel and/ or German Gänslein, Gänzel `gosling, young goose.

  • CIA note, Pillar to Wentworth/Ramanujam, summary of Aug. 5, 1998, CSG meeting on Bin Ladin, Aug. 6, 1998.

  • It is not in the slightest way suggested that picking up citations from other works is in any way curious or reprehensible—anyone would be a fool to research any subject without relying on the scholarship that has gone before—but one would have expected the DARE to be found among books like Farmer and Henley's Dictionary of Slang and Its Analogues , Chapman's New Dictionary of Slang , Wentworth and Flexner's Dictionary of American Slang , and the others listed.


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