How to Use prefix in a Sentence

prefix

noun

• This consists of the pages with the https prefix in their URLs.
  — Don Dodds, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2023
• The prefix pan- suggests the whole of the universe or mankind.
  — Katy Steinmetz, Time, 9 Mar. 2020
• The next three are a prefix assigned to a switch within the area code.
  — Jo Craven McGinty, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2017
• The prefix 'un-' means 'not' or 'the opposite of', while the root word 'tigan' means 'to tie or bind'.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 26 Mar. 2023
• That is one of four hallmarks of the disorder, hence the prefix tetra-, from the Greek for four.
  — Tom Avril, Philly.com, 9 Mar. 2018
• The artistry comes in the assignation of a prefix, Shubat said.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2019
• There is no hard-and-fast rule on when to use a hyphen after a pre- or post- prefix.
  — WSJ, 5 Apr. 2022
• Many of the numbers in the six affected area codes begin with the 988 prefix.
  — Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News, 28 Oct. 2021
• Unlike with celecoxib, the prefix shouldn’t hark back to the name-brand drug.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2019
• There are times when the prefix seems harmless, even charming.
  — Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, 6 Jan. 2017
• That SuperSport prefix is borrowed from the hot Chevys of yore.
  — Barry Winfield, Car and Driver, 20 July 2023
• This root also produced the hoity-toity prefix pyro-, which the Normans brought to England via Greek.
  — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 May 2021
• The prefix ka can be interpreted in a range of ways, providing a key to the true meaning of this phrase.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 3 Jan. 2022
• Fires managed by that unit are grouped under that prefix.
  — Annie Vainshtein, SFChronicle.com, 20 Aug. 2020
• Back in 1993, when the word cyberwar, as it’s used today, was coined, the prefix had more currency.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 26 Feb. 2022
• The negation as a prefix signals this part of our identity is never enough.
  — Ching Ching Tan, CNN, 18 Dec. 2021
• The cone that forms the center of each flower, and is the prefix of the plants’ common name, was there for another reason, too, Dr. Kindscher said.
  — New York Times, 25 Aug. 2021
• Ash’s series declares its intention to move against the grain with a prefix that stands in stark defiance of the latter.
  — Josh Weiss, Forbes, 2 June 2021
• Though the prefix dire often means terrible, dire wolves weren’t quite the monstrosities that their name implies.
  — Connor Lynch, Discover Magazine, 14 Dec. 2022
• The 835 prefix is still used widely for Glencoe landlines today.
  — Daniel I. Dorfman, chicagotribune.com, 10 July 2017
• In German, the word for the uncanny comes from a negation of the word for the homely, unheimlich from heimlich, a quick slip, on a prefix’s turn, from the cozy to the claustrophobic.
  — Gillian Osborne, Harper's Magazine, 22 June 2021
• Your website may be available in multiple prefixes, such as www, http and https.
  — Don Dodds, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2023
• Trillium are one of the most easily recognizable spring blooms; the tri- prefix in their name is a reminder to look for flowers with three white petals and three broad leaves.
  — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2022
• Ka, a one-letter Hebrew prefix that could easily be overlooked, teaches – as does the moon – that the darkest moments contain sparks of hope.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 3 Jan. 2022
• The comet will likely be renamed with the prefix 2I/ according to standard nomenclature.
  — Mara Johnson-Groh, Discover Magazine, 15 Sep. 2019
• In other cases, the target is an entire network prefix.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 28 Oct. 2022
• They are named for the African clawed frog Xenopus laevis, which supplies all their cells, and the suggestion, encapsulated in the prefix, that something strange, alien, is at work.
  — Joshua Sokol, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2020
• TorMoil, as the flaw has been dubbed by its discoverer, is triggered when users click on links that begin with file:// rather than the more common https:// and http:// address prefixes.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 3 Nov. 2017
• In the early days of paleontology, slapping a –saurus on a Greek or Latin prefix was all that was necessary.
  — Brian Switek, Smithsonian, 20 Mar. 2017
• In the early days of paleontology, slapping a –saurus on a Greek or Latin prefix was all that was necessary.
  — Brian Switek, Smithsonian, 20 Mar. 2017

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024