Sentence examples for think of proper from inspiring English sources

For the purposes of this article, one might think of proper names as at least roughly co-extensive with the sorts of expressions that ordinary (non-philosophically trained) speakers standardly call 'names', expressions like 'George W. Bush', 'Barcelona', and 'Mount Everest'.

When "straight" is how we think of proper alignment, we park or fix ourselves in position.

When you think of girly-girls, you usually think of proper, nonathletic, and always wears pink.

Except for Roger Bacon, who thought of proper names as constantly receiving new impositions (see §7), the reason had to do with the definition of a univocal term as involving a concept or a nature predicable, at least in principle, of several individuals.

We regrouped to think of a proper strategy.

Noticing the… It's not just the closing of e-mails that bedevils; it's just as hard to think of a proper way to begin one.

It's not just the closing of e-mails that bedevils; it's just as hard to think of a proper way to begin one.

"When Atlantis was sinking there was an awful period of" — and Beatrice's mother stops to think of the proper word but can't.

Just one problem, though – the fellas can't think of a proper name – it's currently lumbered with the snappy title of Untitled Amazon Motoring Show.

The New Yorker, August 15 , 1936P. 9 We remember trying to write a letter to Hunter College & getting stuck because we couldn't think of the proper salutation.

By N. M. Coulter and E. B. White The New Yorker, August 15 , 1936P. 9 We remember trying to write a letter to Hunter College & getting stuck because we couldn't think of the proper salutation.