Sentence examples for define words from inspiring English sources

This is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
You can use it when you want to provide a definition for a particular word. For example, "The dictionary can help you define words you don't know."

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The courts' own judgments can define words.

Handler's alter ego, Lemony Snicket, repeatedly interrupts the story to define words.

The irony is that judges have vastly more power than lexicographers do to define words.

During the onstage demonstration, a Google employee asked Google to define words or search for images.

The company is already providing many other word-based services, including one used on the Web site of The Times to define words in articles.

QED.I wrote a year ago, against "dictionary fetishism", that judges shouldn't rely too heavily on dictionaries to define words for their rulings.

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The New York Times has shared the fifty most frequently defined words on their Web site.

There is also a mini-glossary of sorts defining words like "exchange," "rupture" and "essentialize".

In addition to providing a Cajun glossary, she often defines words within the story, helping their meaning to sink in.

She has posted a small dictionary of her husband's own nonsense language, defining words he sometimes used with close family and friends.

I replied that what attracted me to business was the precision of its vocabulary — a self-enclosed world of carefully defined words that permitted clarity of thought.

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