Sentence examples for suffix from inspiring English sources

The American writer Langston Hughes proclaimed "Life's a bitch" in 1940, but it's not clear who added the suffix – or when.

It's also been at least two months since Jeremy Clarkson said something deliberately crass, so expect another gate suffix over Christmas.

Perhaps the best indicator of the level of collective indignation was how everyone was so blinded by rage they forgot to anoint the episode with the customary 'gate' suffix.

They are denoted by a.onion suffix rather than.co.uk or.com.

The use of the diminutive -ie suffix is notable, as it helps to turn an essentially narcissistic enterprise into something rather more endearing.

GIVEN journalists' penchant for sticking the suffix "gate" onto anything they think smells of conspiracy, a public-relations consultant might have suggested a different name.

Its subject is a 12th-century crusade of emperor Friedrich I, nicknamed Barbarossa, and a brave Swabian knight fighting a multitude of turks and splitting one in half, the latter described in some detail.And whether or not it sounds cute, as your article suggests, the Swabian suffix "-le" is functional in nature, exactly as the German "-lein".

There is a verb for the English phrase "to get lost in thought", which is made from the verb for "to think", the prefix za meaning behind or beyond, and the reflexive suffix.

Given time, the internal geography shifts, and the cities of the new homeland take the suffix due the cities of the old one.

GDP growth: 1.7% GDP per head: $38,990 (PPP: $38,150) Inflation: 1.8% Budget balance (% GDP) -7.6 Population: 125.2mThe prime minister, Shinzo Abe, one of the rare breed to have the suffix "nomics" attached to his name, faces a make-or-break year for the policy package designed to shock Japan out of a two-decade deflationary funk.

HOW did foreclosures go, in a matter of weeks, from just another miserable statistic in America's housing bust to the subject of a scandal with its own "-gate" suffix?