Sentence examples for writing the entry from inspiring English sources
The flustered professor is Bertram Potts Gary Cooperr), who is writing the entry on slang for a new encyclopedia, and who explains to his colleagues that "puss" is an accepted vulgarism for "face".
His achievements included contributions and commentaries in Funk & Wagnall's, Random House and other dictionaries; being an editor of the Dictionary of American English; and writing the entry on "dictionary" for the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Amid such typically elliptical remarks, her description of how she came to write the song "Statue of Liberty" leaps out: "When I started working on the record I had just finished writing the entry about New York for the EncyclopÆdia Britannica".
Bethe wrote the entry on the neutron for the 14th edition of Encyclopædia Britannica.
Professor Briem, incidentally, wrote the entry on Berliner Weisse in the "Companion".
For many years he wrote the entry for baseball in the Encyclopedia Britannica.
Any illiterate jerk could write the entry on, say, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.
Irène wrote the entry on polonium for the 1949 printing of the 14th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica.
Shortly after winning the Nobel Prize, Rutherford wrote the entry on radioactivity for the 11th edition (1910) of the Encyclopædia Britannica.
He also wrote the entry on jazz film for the 1988 edition of the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz.
