Example sentences for: xix

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

  • The comments on street names [XIX,2,20] recalls that I live on Nepean Street, but the mailing label of my New Yorker subscription persists in showing it as NE PEAN (suggesting Northeast Pean?), despite attempts to have it corrected.

  • Your breezy note on street names [OBITER DICTA, Name Withheld, XIX,2,20], suggested certain categories that might lend more pizzazz to the scene.

  • Further to the letter of Douglas S. Dodge [XIX, 2,18] regarding tripes á la mode de Caen, please note that the Caen referred to is not the French place name but the name of the San Franciscan writer and journalist, Herb Caen.

  • In Mr. William Brashear's Hocus Pocus [XIX, 1, 1], the nonsensical magical words from Goethe's Reineke Fuchs, nekrast negibaul geid sum manteflih dnudna mein tedachs make sense when the words are read backwards (with some anagrammatical liberties):

  • I am writing to add to Mr. Douglas S. Dodge's contrepèteries , as he requested [EPISTOLAE,XIX, 217]: after smoking France's favorite cigarette for the first time: Qu'est-ce que c'est une Blauloise Gueue?


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