Example sentences for: word

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

  • It is more than likely that at least some of the male humans using them are innocently unaware of the true meaning of a word or words they perhaps use daily.

  • Interestingly, some Spanish dictionaries define the word as a “cemetery for Catholics,” whereas they define cementerio as an “enclosed place for burying the dead.”

  • Thus, Ralph Olmsted Williams often engaged Hall in the pages of the Dial and of Modern Language Notes; these exchanges Williams published in Some Questions of Good English (1897), recognizing that with such an adversary as Dr. Hall it was difficult to claim victory even when claiming the benefit of the last word.

  • It is supposed, however, that it is an abbreviation for jeroboam, which started off life as a large bowl for holding wine [I Kings xi. 28/xiv. 16]; the addition of the suffixes -y, -ie, and -ey to the main stem of a word have always been popular ways of forming diminutives.

  • The entry for the Russian word in the Tolkovyi Slovar' Russkogo Yazyka (Moscow, 1935), reads as follows, as transliterated and translated:


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