How to Use suffix in a Sentence

suffix

noun

• Nouns formed with the Latin suffix -tion are often both count and noncount nouns.
  — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Aug. 2022
• The -ette suffix did not die out when women finally won the right to vote.
  — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Aug. 2020
• And the final four are a suffix attached to a landline or mobile phone.
  — Jo Craven McGinty, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2017
• The synonymous suffix -ess is falling out of use as well.
  — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Aug. 2020
• The suffix -vik, meaning bay, is a common feature in place names throughout the Nordic region.
  — David Nikel, Forbes, 1 May 2022
• Henceforth, Angela Bassett is no longer two words; the now obligatory did the thing suffix has been added to Dictionary.com.
  — Raven Smith, Vogue, 22 Feb. 2023
• Both are identified with the same G7 suffix, and both include the Intel Iris Xe branding.
  — Mark Hachman, PCWorld, 4 Sep. 2020
• The suffix -core comes from hard core, which at first (1841) referred to broken bricks or stones that formed the hard substratum of roads and foundations.
  — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Feb. 2022
• Executable files for both the Windows and macOS versions had the suffix .ts.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 15 Jan. 2022
• They are commonly referred to as énarques, a word combining the school’s name with the suffix for a ruler, as in monarchy.
  — Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, WSJ, 22 Feb. 2019
• Corecore is a play on the name of the suffix itself and can best be described as a form of visual poetry that is meant to evoke certain emotions.
  — Time, 20 Jan. 2023
• The dot-org suffix has the distinction of being one of original domains created in the mid-1980s.
  — CBS News, 24 Jan. 2020
• But, Lynne Murphy points out, the –ize suffix was original in British and American spelling, and survives in both.
  — John E. McIntyre, baltimoresun.com, 8 Mar. 2018
• But the suffix began its most expansive journey in the ’70s and ’80s, with the advent of hardcore music — that faster, more aggressive, intense genre of punk rock that has deep roots in the D.C. area.
  — Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2021
• For the past year and a half, crudely drawn internet characters named with the -oomer suffix have been getting odder and more specific.
  — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 3 Feb. 2020
• Gurman wryly points out that adding the Pro suffix means different things, but one change is consistent: a higher price.
  — David Phelan, Forbes, 10 July 2022
• Assuming the name is right, companies don’t add the suffix Pro carelessly.
  — David Phelan, Forbes, 6 May 2022
• Those with different suffixes, like .co try to come off like legit news sites, but usually aren’t.
  — NBC News, 7 Feb. 2020
• On that date, new, descriptive suffixes ranging from .deals to .sucks—meant to make search easier—will be available for anyone to buy.
  — Chelsea Peng, Marie Claire, 23 Mar. 2015
• His namesake, contractor Walker Berry Kroeger — neither used their first name nor a suffix — was his uncle.
  — Paula Allen, ExpressNews.com, 25 Jan. 2020
• Address the e-mail to the person's mobile phone number followed by the cellular carrier's e-mail suffix.
  — Steve Alexander, Star Tribune, 11 July 2021
• Adding the Japanese suffix -mi, meaning taste, highlights the specific taste detected by the tongue.
  — Rob Dunn and Monica Sanchez, WSJ, 17 Apr. 2021
• German street names mostly end with suffixes like Straße, weg, allee, gasse, which are variations on street, way, lane, boulevard, or alley.
  — Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 1 June 2023
• As its numerical suffix suggests, the Baby II isn't the first time that Bugatti has created a miniature.
  — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 1 Sep. 2020
• Like email, there are others who have the @mastodon.world suffix, but because there are thousands of different servers, there are thousands of different suffixes.
  — Joanna Stern, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2022
• In the nineteenth century, Noah Webster favored the -ize suffix while the British shifted to a preference for –ise, perhaps from borrowing a number of French words with that spelling.
  — John E. McIntyre, baltimoresun.com, 8 Mar. 2018
• First of all, the word extension is not necessarily correct; the suffix at the end of a domain name is technically referred to as the top-level domain, or TLD.
  — Michael Gargiulo, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2021
• But another sizable portion stems directly from its licensing of its .tv URL suffix, thanks to the recent surge in streaming sites.
  — Alexander Lee, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2019
• Will scientists loop back to the beginning and reuse the letters, perhaps with a numerical suffix?
  — Mary Norris, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2021
• These last few years have brought about an overabundance of e-commerce suffixes, creating an information overload in the minds of consumers and businesses alike.
  — Somdutta Singh, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024