Example sentences for: words

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

  • Then there are books, like Funk's A Hog on Ice and my own The Whole Ball of Wax , that treat the origins of particular kinds of expressions and, occasionally, words.

  • The entries also include pronunciations (if they vary regionally or differ from what would be expected), variant forms, etymologies (if DARE can add to what is already known about a word's history), and statements about regional and social distributions of words and forms.

  • John Ray, the great English biologist and pioneer lexicographer, author of Collection of English Proverbs (first edition 1670, second edition 1678) and Collection of English Words (first edition 1673, second edition 1691), suffered severely from an ulcerative disease of his legs.

  • The same goes for specialty, which has yielded over the years to specialization . The curious point is that this trend seems to go against Zipf's Law, which notes that syllables get trimmed off words over the years.

  • The Logodaedalian's Dictionary of Interesting and Unusual Words


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