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.

Yet we find, even in works of celebrity, whole pages of these general or these particular descriptive sketches, which leave nothing behind but noun substantives propped up by random epithets.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Disraeli, Isaac

In fact, there is a very large group of noun substantives which mark, for an Elementary teacher, at least, the seasons of the year.

From Life's Minor Collisions by Warner, Frances Lester

In Middle Irish the declensions and conjugations are much simplified and the neuter gender is given up in substantives.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various

De is not used in speaking of places, etc., when English uses the preposition "of," where nomata = named might be inserted between two substantives.

From The International Auxiliary Language Esperanto Grammar and Commentary by Cox, George

A different Latin suffix -culum, forming substantives from verbs, is represented in the form -cle in several words adopted through French, as miracle, oracle, spectacle. -um, neuter term., as medium.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various