How to Use dictionary in a Sentence

dictionary

noun

• Look it up in the dictionary.
• The dictionary tweeted last year on Memorial Day weekend, that the hot dog is, in fact, a sandwich.
  — Joseph Gerth, The Courier-Journal, 19 July 2017
• Some young doctors master complex procedures, some memorize a dictionary full of symptoms.
  — Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star, 25 June 2017
• The sassy post continues the dictionary's streak of tweets timed to serve as sharp interjections in the cultural or political debate of the day.
  — Claire Zillman, Fortune, 18 July 2017
• But when [bad actors] include every word from the dictionary and every combination of it, [does the average person] have to worry about it?
  — Ben Guarino, Scientific American, 12 Sep. 2024
• First, there’s the Professor and the Madman, a book adaptation about the making of the Oxford dictionary.
  — Yohana Desta, HWD, 12 July 2017
• Merriam-Webster has expanded its dictionary, adding over 250 new words and definitions to keep up with the times.
  — CBS News, 18 Sep. 2017
• Particularly in the last few decades, many dream dictionaries have been published offering simple or complex meanings for specific symbols and themes.
  — Sonya Vatomsky, The Cut, 11 Sep. 2017
• 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
• But his 1828 dictionary is what he’s remembered for, coming at a tremendous personal cost: twenty-one years invested, and a lifelong struggle with debt.
  — Liz Tracey, JSTOR Daily, 19 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024