Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Editorship of Colburn's New Monthly      Ditto 400l. per annum.

From Notes and Queries, Number 235, April 29, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

When I gave up the Editorship, I had various engagements with friends for separate Lives remaining on my hands.

From Apologia pro Vita Sua by Newman, John Henry

It was with Shirley Brooks's succession to the Editorship that Mr. Ralston obtained his recognition.

From The History of "Punch" by Spielmann, M. H. (Marion Harry)

You have done some queer pranks at Editorship before now, so what would you say to standing Sponsor to us all, foundlings as we are in the world of letters?

From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I by Lever, Charles James

Finding, perhaps, that his tastes were literary rather than legal—that he had a greater aptitude for belles lettres than jurisprudence—young Bell, on the 15th November, 1828, undertook the Editorship of the Edinburgh Literary Journal.

From Western Worthies A Gallery of Biographical and Critical Sketches of West of Scotland Celebrities by Jeans, J. Stephen (James Stephen)