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.

  • 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.

  • 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.)

  • In Emporia, Kansas, “the basement of the Sacred Heart Church was renovated and Mass was said for Mexicans two Sundays of each month” (Beeson, Adams, and King, xix).


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