Example sentences for: xerox

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

  • Could you please xerox this letter.

  • Xerox persists because unregulated use by others may cause a trademark to be deemed abandoned.

  • It turns out that in anticipation of possible Y2K-driven supply interrupts, companies like Xerox are planning to take on more inventory than usual in the last part of 1999.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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