Example sentences for: xxi

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

  • 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.

  • An arresting one occurs in A Passage to India (Chapter XXI) in which Forster describes a small building as “a flimsy and frivolous erection,” while in The Mayor of Casterbridge (Chapter XVI) the Mayor himself “beheld the unattractive exterior of Farfrae's erection.”

  • The Editor's comments on ...prejudice against Negroes in many Western societies... [XXI, 3, 9] were apt but somewhat incomplete.

  • A letter from L. Alan Swanson [XXI,3,21] claims that the original name for the Beatles was The Golden Beatles.

  • E.A. Livingston's communication [XXI, 3] certainly struck a responsive chord in me.


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