Sentence examples for rare word from inspiring English sources

But a rare word on a geopolitics none-the-less.

"It is indeed a rare word, and an ungainly one, but it is real nonetheless".

"I think the word 'dangerous' is still a rare word," Rogers corrected me, saying that the words "reckless" and "destructive" were far more common.

And there's an amusing bit where she answers written questions from the audience ("Galashiels? Is that right?" she asked with incredulous hesitancy, as if confronted by rare word in Serbo-Croat).

Mayan, some Mixe-Zoquean languages, Xinkan, and varieties of Nahua all share VOS word order, thought to be borrowed (due to language contact) among them, a relatively rare word order among the world's languages.

He gives himself a rare word of praise for a recording of the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 or one of the Brahms Piano Quartet in A major, but much else is "dreadful" or "execrable".

Performer and coauthor of Rare Words and Rare Words II from Levenger Press.

Mr Johnson had some rare words of praise for Ken Livingstone.

Mr. Milosevic began his cross-examination with rare words of compassion.

Banville has always enjoyed out-of-the-way words, but Maskell's pleasure in rare words - brumous, autocthons, plumbeous - is the appropriate irony of a fastidious aesthete.

Morgan is an expansive stylist, fond of rare words ("letheless," "mortise") and of the circumlocutions that can pass for plain speaking, but her pacing is shrewd.