morpheme

Example Sentences

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Those words are made up of morphemes, small elements that change their meaning depending on how they are combined.

From New York Times

On the pretext of performing usability testing for Sparkle Dungeon 5, she is taught “power morphemes” — ways to condense layers of meaning into abstract sounds that can bend real-world physics, shattering glass and folding space-time.

From New York Times

She draws pictures illustrating each mouth morpheme — the lip and tongue postures that act as adjectives and adverbs.

From New York Times

I was imitating something linguistically unique to sign language called “mouth morphemes” — moving your tongue rapidly to demonstrate distance or swelling your cheeks like balloons to show size.

From New York Times

Each of the, say, two hundred and fifty passengers on each flight hanging unwittingly on each morpheme.

From The New Yorker