Example sentences for: xxi

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

  • In your review of The New York Public Library Writers Guide to Style and Usage [XXI, 2], you mention looking in vain for wisdom regarding the use of the serial (or series, as I've always called it) comma.

  • Mr. Alan Major [XXI,3] can take comfort: arzey-garzeys is alive and well here, eight miles or so from Canterbury.

  • Re your recent OBITER DICTA [XXI,1], I'm sorry you did not delve further into the idea that the word black is on its way out.

  • As a Rhode Islander, I naturally paid particular attention to Mr. Champlin's article, Language at Bay [XXI,3].

  • In David Galef's “Sound and Sense” [XXI, 1], please note that the reference in “The Miller's Tale” should have been to Alison, the wife of John the carpenter, not to the reeve's wife; also, for “sussurus” read susurrus .


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