Sentence examples for known words from inspiring English sources

For transparent compounds, computation of and access to a meaning are both viable mechanisms, with a potential shift of balance towards lexicalisation for well-known, frequently used items, and towards a combinatorial processing mechanism for the lesser known words.

His final known words went out via text message, from inside the trunk of a car.

Here was a man widely described as fearless — whose last known words were spoken in fear.

Renowned as an orator, it's fitting that Kennedy's best known words have come in tragedy and defeat.

The low-tech task seemed endless: Previously unknown words or new usages of known words were always coming to light in archaeological ruins.

Or that alternative spellings of previously known words will make children (and adults) suddenly start spelling things wrong, sending school test scores falling?

In the meantime, General McNabb, in yet another reference to Alexander the Great, said that when he took over the transportation command in 2008, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates reminded him of the well-known words attributed to the famous conqueror: "My logisticians are a humorless lot; they know if my campaign fails they are the first ones I will slay".

Our collection will include women from around the world, lesser-known words of wisdom from the few women who are already much quoted, and lots from scores of remarkable women we don't know so well.

Take the well-known words from Matthew 11 28: "Come unto me all ye that labour, and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest".

Though occasionally he wrote in Latin, Paracelsus liked also to use a Low German that was full of unusual, little-known words.

From the 7th century onward, consciousness of linguistic change was strong enough to prompt scribes to gloss little-known words in earlier Latin texts with more familiar terms.