Example sentences for: xerox

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

  • For example, some years ago the xerography pioneer took out half-page ads in the New York Times to remind us that Xerox is a trademark to be used only as a proper noun, as in Xerox machine , or a proper adjective, as in Xerox copy . In either case, warned the ad, we must capitalize Xerox . Despite such entreaties, the word xerox seems to have become generic, if not according to the courts, then at least according to current American usage, where it occurs freely as noun, adjective, and even verb, with or without capitalization.

  • The Xerox Corporation, recognizing the potential danger of success, has in the past gone out of its way to protect its right to the words it owns.

  • Xerox achieves this by building production representative prototypes and by requiring suppliers of key components and subassemblies to produce an adequate sample of parts to demonstrate the suppliers' processes can be controlled, usually before the parts are incorporated into the prototypes.

  • Women currently head the Canadian units of Ford, General Motors, Xerox, and Kraft.

  • Though I have found no reference to any trademark suits brought by Xerox against other manufacturers, the company has tried to regulate the use of its trademark in ordinary English.


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