Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

In 2021, the society announced the formation of an ad hoc committee to look into nomenclatures.

From New York Times • Jul. 9, 2021

Various nomenclatures are used to derive names for amines, but all involve the class-identifying suffix –ine as illustrated here for a few simple examples:

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

Government contracting firms are adopting new nomenclatures that create buzz.

From Washington Post • Jul. 31, 2011

At the heart of that huge whirlwind of his, with its dusty heraldries, and phantasmal nomenclatures now become mendacious, there lay, at first, always an earnest human fact.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 02 by Carlyle, Thomas

Church creeds and nomenclatures may vary but the laws of church fêtes and fairs are the same.

From Emmy Lou's Road to Grace Being a Little Pilgrim's Progress by Martin, George Madden