Example sentences of "word like " in BNC.
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| 1 | Besides , he wrote , now that I am at last working on the big glass and have set up the two panels and locked them into their metal frame , notions like success and failure are no longer pertinent , there is only the project and its outcome , project , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , outcome , and words like success and failure can safely be left to others , wrote Harsnet . |
| 2 | Henry noted how the detective inspector 's speech had now widened to include words like ‘ poison ’ and ‘ murderer ’ . |
| 3 | I mean , you use words like ‘ incandescent ’ and ‘ eminently ’ . |
| 4 | Words like ‘ condom ’ are now used freely in conversation . |
| 5 | Consequently , words like ‘ colonel ’ or ‘ yacht ’ are pronounced as if they were non-words . |
| 6 | ‘ Now , now , good feminists do n't use words like that . ’ |
| 7 | He drops , or there happen to be dropped , sore words like ‘ Napoleon ’ and ‘ axe ’ into his discourse . |
| 8 | Words like the locust-shells , moved by no inner being ; |
| 9 | words like preluciand , which have a folk tradition and are , in feeling , germane to all Europe : Leuchand , luisant , lucente : these words are absent in Miltonism , and purely pedantic words , like irriguous , have succeeded them . |
| 10 | Words like these are something to hang onto when people ask ‘ Why is opera fashionable now ? ’ |
| 11 | This does not mean that the old books can provide us with no concrete evidence from the past , but it does mean that old books must be read with delicacy ; with a sense that if we go blundering into them , assuming that they mean what we mean by words like sky , earth , history or nature we shall get everything wrong . |
| 12 | ‘ After all , words like ‘ wispy ’ and ‘ short ’ mean different things to different people , ’ she said . |
| 13 | All TransAction documentation has been approved by Clarity ( The lawyers ' campaign for the use of plain English ) and words like ‘ vendor ’ and ‘ purchaser ’ are replaced by ‘ seller ’ and ‘ buyer ’ . |
| 14 | Peter Yeo , who had personally persuaded Barton of the presentational disadvantage of using words like ‘ darkies ’ , ‘ niggers ’ or ‘ wogs ’ , decided that ‘ immigrants ’ even though used in the manner of one invoking a curse , was as good as he was going to get with this particular client . |
| 15 | But exceptions have had to be made for words like prie-Dieu ( prayer-stool ) , which will remain without an x in the plural so as to avoid blasphemous implications . |
| 16 | In 1835 the oi diphthong was systematically changed to ai in accordance with modern pronunciation in words like françois . |
| 17 | Berkeley remarks that the opinion that words like ‘ good ’ and ‘ happiness ’ ‘ stand for general notions abstracted from all particular persons and actions ’ has ‘ rendered morality difficult , and the study thereof of less use to mankind ’ . |
| 18 | They were not her words : she did n't use words like ‘ tragic ’ . |
| 19 | We had been waiting all Genesis for words like those . |
| 20 | ‘ People may think there 's something sardonic about Leeds United fans walking round with words like ‘ peace ’ and ‘ love ’ on their backs , ’ says T-shirt designer Moose , ‘ It might not solve football 's hooligan problem , but at least they look a lot better than wax-coats and ski-hats . |
| 21 | Words like ‘ flow chart ’ , ‘ training ’ , ‘ forecast ’ . |
| 22 | Running off words like a telex machine on overdrive . |
| 23 | It became impossible at that time to use words like ‘ proletarian ’ , ‘ working class ’ or ‘ Blue Col ’ . |
| 24 | The conversation came from far away , the words like beautiful , meaningless sounds in another language , unspoken , impenetrable , Arabic , perhaps , or Persian . |
| 25 | Although a list of words describing horses would be shorter ( we could leave out words like idealistic or religious ) , we are still left with a vast number . |
| 26 | The word ‘ socialism ’ is expunged from the party manifesto , which instead is decked out with words like ‘ supply side ’ and ‘ investment ’ , but those words are worn like slogans on the T-shirts of Third World peasants , with incomprehension and a vague sense that they confer status . |
| 27 | Short trousers , grubby knees , odd socks , and a pair of indescribable shoes that had belonged to his elder brother , completed the picture of a happy child , unlikely to be able to spell simple words like ‘ class ’ for a very long time . |
| 28 | Endill 's hand felt sore after a while and he wanted to ask why he would need words like ‘ pumpernickle ’ and ‘ ourang-outang ’ but thought on his first day too many questions might lead to trouble . |
| 29 | He tried talking but the teachers would n't listen and thought he was repeating words like a parrot or just being cheeky . |
| 30 | For this reason , it jars oddly for an English ear to hear words like ‘ soul ’ , ‘ destiny ’ and ‘ national psyche ’ being the common currency of political discourse in Germany . |