DICTIONARY in a Sentence

Learn DICTIONARY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
48 example sentences for DICTIONARY, such as:
1. I need to buy a new dictionary.
2. This dictionary will hold the field.
3. That dictionary belongs to the class.
4. Valentine rose to fetch the dictionary.
5. You'd better look it up in the dictionary.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of DICTIONARY
dictionary
 n.  a reference book containing an alphabetical list of words with information about them
Classic Sentence:
1  I see it warn't nothing but a dictionary, so I laid my hand on it and said it.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI.
2  Valentine then took the dictionary, and the notary watched her while she turned over the pages.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 59. The Will.
3  Noirtier's eye was fixed on the dictionary.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 75. A Signed Statement.
4  Valentine rose to fetch the dictionary.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 93. Valentine.
5  As soon as she was gone, Noirtier made a sign to Morrel to take the dictionary.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 93. Valentine.
6  Fain am I to stagger to this emprise under the weightiest words of the dictionary.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 104. The Fossil Whale.
7  The dictionary afforded me little or no help.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
8  I could hear a lot of words often repeated, queer words, for there were many nationalities in the crowd; so I quietly got my polyglot dictionary from my bag and looked them out.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
9  He spent the time still remaining to him with a dictionary, copying out obscure words he would need to guide the Italian round the cathedral.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Nine In the Cathedral
10  I know nearly one thousand words, which is all that is absolutely necessary, although I believe there are nearly one hundred thousand in the dictionaries.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16. A Learned Italian.
11  Cranly was sitting over near the dictionaries.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
Example Sentence: (37 in 3 pages)
1  This dictionary is available in electronic form.
2  He sent her some books, together with a dictionary.
3  He took down a dictionary from the top shelf.
4  The head-words in this dictionary are printed in bold type.
5  You'd better look it up in the dictionary.
6  A new version of the dictionary has been got out.
7  The word "Impossible" is not in my dictionary.
8  I need to buy a new dictionary.
9  That dictionary belongs to the class.
10  The leather cover of the new dictionary was embellished with gold letters.
11  The cover of the dictionary has been torn off.
12  This dictionary will hold the field.
13  This dictionary is generally conceded to be the best in China.
14  This dictionary has several appendices, including one on irregular verbs.
15  The dictionary is a vast treasure trove of information.