Sentence examples for by a copy editor from inspiring English sources
The ex's grammar and syntax have been torn apart by a copy editor, his manners rubbished by an etiquette consultant and his lines pored over by Talmudic scholars.
The last straw in my decision to sit down and write the book was getting back a manuscript that had been mutilated by a copy editor who, I could tell, was mindlessly enforcing rules that had been laid out in some ancient style book as if they were the Ten Commandments.
New novels are often translated from manuscripts or proofs that themselves have been altered by the author, a copy editor, an editor and so on.
Six decades ago, not long after being hired by Harold Ross as a copy editor at The New Yorker, a shy young woman, an Oberlin graduate, set to work on a manuscript by James Thurber and soon came across the word "raunchy".
He self-published it, even learning a complicated graphic design program to do the layout, page by page, and hired a copy editor to go over the manuscript.
Played with merciful matter-of-factness by Stephanie Wright Thompson, Voice is a copy editor at the tail end of youth who moves into a rented house outside New York City with her boyfriend, Gabe (Frank Harts).
By day she works as a copy editor and proofreader for Siegel+Gale, a strategic branding firm.
His character was performed by the actress Jeanne Moreau and a copy editor rubbished his syntax and grammar.
Either Truss needed a copy editor or her copy editor needed a copy editor.
