apostrophize

Example Sentences

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Or that the prolix Gaev — a man as likely to apostrophize a piece of furniture as the stars above — keeps promising he’ll be quiet.

From New York Times • Dec. 5, 2011

Thus did Adolf Hitler apostrophize his beloved season, spring.

From Time Magazine Archive

He hired four obscure artists to paint the illustrations exactly as he wanted them, and then got some second-rate poets to apostrophize the plants in sticky verse.

From Time Magazine Archive

So did one medieval minstrel apostrophize his hero, suggesting that a good hunting dog might be a duke's best friend.

From Time Magazine Archive

The fishermen's wives on the Scottish coast apostrophize the fish they sell, after their husbands' perilous voyages, and sing, "Call them lives o' men."

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 by Various