Example sentences for: xix

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

  • EdTV is based on a 1994 French Canadian film that no one I know has seen called Louis XIX: King of the Airwaves . (The mock imperial title alone suggests more wit than the whole of its Hollywood counterpart.)

  • The discussion of Spoonerisms [EPISTOLAE, XIX, 2, 17] should, I feel, not be closed without mentioning at least a few more of the classic examples of the genre.

  • I was intrigued by Leslie Brunetta's description of Italian surnames, Frailty, Thy Name is Bevilacqua [XIX,2,1], in particular of Bevilacqua and Bévivino.

  • Alex Berlyne, in Front Back-axle [XIX, 3, 29], finds it beyond understanding how the Hebrew word pony (which he believes to be borrowed from ponytail ) has come to stand for fringe or bangs in the sense of hair combed forward over the forehead.

  • [XIX, 3, 1] and offer for the archives Jacqueline Adams's They're both tarnished with the same brush, uttered on a recent CBS Nightly News (February 1993).


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