Example sentences for: xxi

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

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

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

  • In a review of The Endangered English Dictionary [XXI, 1,22], we misattributed authorship of Poplollies and Bellibones . As many readers probably know because the book is in their libraries, Poplollies and Bellibones is the work of Susan Kelz Sperling.

  • Robertson Cochrane's enjoyable article, Me and Empathy [XXI, 4], says, Why is it... that people will not hesitate to proffer publicly their guess-work on word origins and other language matters, when they would not similarly dare to explain the ordinary facts of botany and chemistry?

  • 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.


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