Example Sentences

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Of course, the extraordinary four-decade-old scandal — which sparked the media’s penchant for suffixing every scandal with “gate” — stays with us because of its lasting political effects and lessons for the country.

From Washington Post • Jan. 29, 2015

The ubiquity of “Design” has rendered itself in many forms, prefixing and suffixing subjects including graphic, product, industrial, computer, systems, architecture, community, environments, molecules, and more.

From Forbes • Oct. 10, 2012

In Japanese adverbs are formed by suffixing ni and to, like the English ly and French ment.

From A Fantasy of Far Japan Summer Dream Dialogues by Suyematsu, Baron Kencho

Formal derivation is accomplished by means of suffixing the elements of relations; pronominal signs are nevertheless not only suffixed, but also prefixed to verbs.

From Basque Legends With an Essay on the Basque Language by Webster, Wentworth

A considerable majority of known languages are prefixing and suffixing at one and the same time, but the relative importance of the two groups of affixed elements naturally varies enormously.

From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Sapir, Edward