Sentence examples for omitting words from inspiring English sources

Peter Gelb, the Met's general manager, pointed out that titles have always been loosely rendered, omitting words or changing elements mentioned in the original libretto.

Nervous of its own newness, the book included a glossary for some of the Spanish terms (coyly omitting words such as leche or chochas – Google Translate if you're not hispanophone).

The symptoms of these eye problems, the vision therapists say, commonly include getting lost on the page while reading, difficulty copying from the blackboard or from one page to another, skipping or omitting words while reading, an avoidance of close work, difficulty in remaining focused, poor handwriting and sports performance.

If you are omitting words, indicate the deleted word or words by using an ellipsis marks (3 periods that are preceded and followed by a space).

The key omitted words here, of course, are "to my partner".

IKEA omits words from instruction booklets, because words make instruction booklets thicker, which makes them more expensive.

Not all the jokes made the trip across the Atlantic, and the American version omits words like "daft" and "knickers".

The omitted words were in many categories; some non-foreign examples from the early part of the alphabet include "abactinally," "abolitional," "abrasable," "automobilize," and "botryogen".

People writing for blogs, where there is no word limit, may not master that important skill, but at one time or another, every writer must omit words he considers indispensable if he wants his writing considered for publication.

Correction: Feb. 27, 2016 Because of a transcription error, a previous version of this article omitted words from the lawyer Nina Shaw's comments about the challenges of diversifying Hollywood.

As the O.E.D.'s editor at large, Jesse Sheidlower, clarified, even the omitted words are being reincorporated into the dictionary's current revision project, so nothing in fact was ever "deleted".