Example sentences for: xxii

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

  • In a preceding number of VERBATIM [XXII, 3], appeared a review article by Dr. William Brashear, of the Egyptian Museum in Berlin, of two new books dealing with the alphabet; now we have this comprehensive work on writing systems.

  • Donald Macintosh's anecdote about the Scottish workman whose conversation baffles the visiting Frenchwoman [XXII,2] makes the unwarranted assumption that the common speech of the people of the Scottish Lowlands is an English dialect.

  • In XXII, 2 you printed a letter from me regarding Charles Stough's article, Insulting Nicknames Give Journalists Something to Be Proud of [XXI,4].

  • The French treasures are also somewhat mutilated, queue [XXII,1] is feminine not masculine: tirer le diable par la queue; appuyer sur le champignon means to step on the gas, le champignon being the slang term for accelerator; in vivre comme un coq en pâte there is no acute accent on the e; it is une [not un ] autre paire de manches that the French use for something that is entirely different.

  • David Galef's article, F U Cn Rd Ths [XXII,4,15], brought to mind a puzzling abbreviation I noticed on highway signs when I moved to Los Angeles some years ago.


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