Example sentences for: xiv

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

  • This serene, arcaded palace, with its garden of lime trees and beeches — and the pond where Louis XIV nearly drowned — has had a past as colorful as its spectacular new flower beds.

  • In his article, “American Slurvian” [XIV, 2], Richard Lederer issued a delicious challenge; however, some of the terms he claims are examples of Slurvian are highly suspect.

  • Richard Bauerls writes interestingly about the recent proliferation of “one-letter words” [XIV, 1; XV, 1].

  • David Galef has coined the term morox [XIV, 2] to designate unintentional, inelegant oxymorons such as many fewer problems, largely insignificant , and barely clothed . I collect solecisms of all sorts that I hear on television broadcasts.

  • Louis XIV, the “Sun King,” was quite simply a megalomaniac, but he also had extraordinary vision.


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