Example sentences for: xvi

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

  • I lived David Galef's “Backwords and Newances” [XVI,2], but he certainly is not a techie (from technician, usually electronic technician `one familiar with and capable of dealing with technology')

  • A Republic was declared in 1792, and Louis XVI was guillotined in 1793.

  • To supplement E. T. Henry's “Nifty Nomenclature” [XVI,4], my English wife (nee Hume ) from Beckenham offers the intelligence that when she was a child, her doctor's name was Death (pronounced “DEETH”), her dentist's name was Screech, her schoolteacher's name was Kenshitt , and the local pastor was Reverend Long who married a Miss Shorter.

  • I am writing primarily to correct and update Benedict Kimmelman's article on the eff-word [XVI,2].

  • I was puzzled by Rebecca Christian's mention in “Blessed Be the Words That Bind’ [XVI,3] of “Vikki Carr's song, `Is That All There Is?


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