Example Sentences

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If you find yourself confused by any of these idioms, please consult one of the many “Love Island” glossaries the internet has to offer.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 23, 2022

There is something about all the interlocked plotlines and the phone book glossaries of characters that I have found hard to parse without the benefit of words on a page.

From New York Times • Jan. 14, 2022

“We were looking through the glossaries to try to find some interesting names,” Bluestone recalled.

From Washington Post • Apr. 15, 2016

Updated daily, the site already contains glossaries for more than 1000 languages from 23 different language families, including 145,000 words.

From Science Magazine • Oct. 30, 2015

Behind the glossaries of warning calls, alarms, mating messages, pronouncements of territory, calls for recruitment, and demands for dispersal, there is redundant, elegant sound that is unaccountable as part of the working day.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas