Example Sentences

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They clutched biblical concordances, Hebrew lexicons, Gospel commentaries.

From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2012

Each chapter holds up its title phrase or word for close inspection in the light of etymologies, concordances, psychoanalytic theories and literary texts.

From The Guardian • Jun. 13, 2012

The scholars work on this in a small inner room, equipped with concordances, dictionaries, and all the relevant texts.

From The New Yorker • May 6, 1955

Computerized concordances have by now recorded every use of every word in Shakespeare, and Taylor soon found interesting similarities between his discovery and Romeo and Juliet, written when Shakespeare was around 30.

From Time Magazine Archive

There are concordances to the works of Shakespeare, Browning and many other writers.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" by Various