Sentence examples for part of a compound from inspiring English sources

I had no idea where I was, if this room was in a desert, standing alone, or part of a compound.

Nor does Chinese group individual characters into bigger "words," even when a character is part of a compound, or multi-character, word.

Since the electronegativities of oxygen, nitrogen, and sulfur are greater than those of carbon and hydrogen, when these elements are part of a compound, the electron densities at their atomic sites are enhanced and those at neighbouring atoms are decreased.

The use of the plural noun phrase "weapons of mass destruction" as the first part of a compound adjective modifying the plural noun phrase "program activities" -- with that second noun phrase itself one step removed from an actual "program" -- drew derision-related hooting activity from the many critics of a key justification for the overthrow of Saddam.

Being homogeneous, every part of a compound has the same intermediate degrees of these qualities.

Sodium (Na) is frequently used in the process of synthesizing nanostructures and usually constitutes part of a compound nanomaterial in the form of nanowires [12, 13] and nanocubes [14].

A tangential cavil: to me, an acronym is a pronounceable word created out of the initials or major parts of a compound term, like NATO, radar, or TriBeCa.

Like my predecessor William Safire, I prefer defining acronym as "a pronounceable word created out of the initials or major parts of a compound term, like NATO, radar or TriBeCa".

Named after the independent parts of a compound organism, Zooid now features Liberty Ellman on acoustic guitar, Jose Davila on tuba and trombone, Stomu Takeishi on acoustic bass guitar and Elliot Humberto Kavee on drums: an astonishingly cohesive ensemble, sharpened by a rigorous work ethic and stamped by the particularities of its acquired language.

Borrowed words contravene two principles of the language: one, that each syllable is a minimal lexicogrammatical unit (a morpheme); two, that the parts of a compound word define each other by mutual selection in some identifiable semantic relationship, most typically one of hyponymy like the long neck deer.

But the implication of this idea for the definitions of hylomorphic compounds is obvious: since matter appears to be a part of such a compound, the definition of the compound will include, as a part, the definitions of its material components.