How to Use dictionary in a Sentence

dictionary

noun

• Look it up in the dictionary.
• Don’t shy away from exploring the depths of your subconscious — consider a dream dictionary with symbols and meanings.
  — Valerie Mesa, People.com, 8 Oct. 2024
• The dictionary didn’t help and there was no Google back then.
  — Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2021
• And for the third year running, our 19th sliver of the dictionary is still in the H’s.
  — Pat Myers, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2022
• To press, find a thick heavy book, like a dictionary, and open to the middle.
  — Lindsey Vickers, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2020
• Look ups for the word spiked 3,800% on Wednesday, the dictionary said.
  — Christina Maxouris, CNN, 8 Oct. 2020
• For the terms that have been in the dictionary before, please use the new meanings.
  — Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2021
• The smaller-market teams are going to go the way of the dictionary.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 July 2019
• To play the game, each person will take a turn choosing a word from the dictionary.
  — Jasmine Gomez, Seventeen, 7 June 2019
• Never use a name or a word that can be found in a dictionary.
  — Larry Magid, The Mercury News, 22 Feb. 2024
• Look up ‘climate’ and ‘weather’ in the dictionary and get back to me.
  — Michael Lynch, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2022
• But what if there were only 100 words in the dictionary?
  — Quanta Magazine, 24 Oct. 2017
• The sight of the word sent me straight to the unabridged dictionary to find the precise English equivalent.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 16 Nov. 2020
• Plus, snag a best-selling LeapFrog dictionary and a large box of Lego bricks.
  — Phoebe Sklansky, Parents, 8 July 2024
• The dictionary can often say as much in a tweet as a pundit can in an hour.
  — Mary Schmich, chicagotribune.com, 11 May 2017
• Look up ‘fungible’ in the dictionary and get back to me.
  — Michael Lynch, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2022
• On his desk is a Black's law dictionary and little else.
  — Joan Biskupic, CNN, 1 July 2017
• In my fifth-grade classroom, the teacher kept a huge and heavy dictionary on the back table.
  — Beth Thames | [e-mail], al, 24 Aug. 2022
• Slang often leads to new words being added to the dictionary.
  — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 11 Nov. 2021
• Those words have no business in a dictionary used to support a game.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 13 Apr. 2017
• There is now a dictionary of Hong Kong English and even a hip-hop anthem.
  — Liam Fitzpatrick / Hong Kong, Time, 27 June 2017
• One place people turn to search for meaning is the dictionary.
  — Katy Steinmetz, Time, 3 Oct. 2017
• Put that free kick in the dictionary as the latest example.
  — Jonathan Tannenwald, Pro Soccer USA, 29 June 2019
• Over 300 new words are being added to the new Scrabble dictionary, which will be published in the fall.
  — Mary Kate Carr, EW.com, 13 Apr. 2018
• But that’s what happened in a West Hartford, Conn., tribute to the father of the dictionary.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2020
• And with that, GerriRoman is canon, and slime puppy goes in the dictionary.
  — Zoe Haylock, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2021
• How many people have ever looked it up in the dictionary?
  — New York Times, 31 Mar. 2022
• At the request of Rude, Aoki came to the Umatilla Reservation to help with the dictionary.
  — Wil Phinney, oregonlive, 12 Nov. 2022
• As the media started reporting on the tweet, even the dictionary couldn’t help but poke fun.
  — Graeme McMillan, WIRED, 8 July 2018
• The Smiley dictionary systematically removed the dash symbol that represented a nose, sorting icons into 11 separate categories.
  — Molly Peck, USA TODAY, 30 July 2024

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024