Sentence examples for up the dictionary from inspiring English sources

"He said he opened up the dictionary, and put in swearwords for the first time.

PROFESSOR: All you've got there is we're making up the dictionary for later substitution.

"If you open up the dictionary to 'sinecure,' you have a picture of the lieutenant governor of Rhode island".

Although the response to our campaign has been overwhelmingly positive, a few naysayers have complained that by adding these obscure words, we're "cluttering up the dictionary".

No sooner had he buffed up the dictionary than he was banging out an intermittently brilliant history of Hollywood, a widely derided book about Nicole Kidman (for whom he was only too eager to get it up), and hacking out articles for anyone who asked - and by then everyone was asking.

But when the doctor submitted his invention to Merriam-Webster — "It cracked me up that someone would just call up the dictionary and propose a new word," Erickson told me — he was informed that to merit an entry, a word had to have made regular appearances in print.

their mouths shut and end up in the dictionary forever.

"So I looked it up in the dictionary".

Immediately I looked it up in the dictionary and knew it was mine.

Then they clamp their mouths shut and end up in the dictionary forever.

Get radical and look them up in the dictionary, find out where they have been.