Example sentences for: words--

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

  • Then again, the statistics for a few thousand of the most frequent words-- the, a, an, but, for, of, etc.--need not be derived again and again, and a few thousand such lemmata are usually eliminated at the outset.

  • The amendment erased two words--"or property"--from an obscure South Carolina law.

  • While in Northumberland I did serve my time on a coble, a traditional fishing boat working out of that tiny harbor not far from the Scottish border, and it was during those years at sea that I learned some of the more subtle intricacies of Northumbrian, in particular that most flexible of all words-- Aye .

  • The Law impressed a special meaning on many Anglo-Saxon words-- manslaughter, sheriff, theft, hearsay, bench (judge's), strike (motion to), landlord, freehold (in land), and herein --which they retain to this day.

  • But in a way the company's name is the perfect conjoining of two words--China and .com--whose real value lies not in what is but only (always?)


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