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Example sentences for "alphabetical order"

  • Every book as acquired has its title written on a card, and thousands of such cards are placed in alphabetical order, just like the words in a dictionary.

  • Bunnett” noted as out of alphabetical order.

  • Clark” noted as out of alphabetical order.

  • Bolton” noted as out of alphabetical order.

  • Greehow” noted as out of alphabetical order.

  • The Instructiones consist of 80 poems, each of which is an acrostic (with the exception of 60, where the initial letters are in alphabetical order).

  • A Septuagint concordance, giving the Greek words in alphabetical order, was published in 1718 in two volumes by Abraham Tromm, a learned minister at Groningen, then in the eighty-fourth year of his age.

  • The groups of two consonants will be treated in alphabetical order.

  • In arranging entries in alphabetical order it is necessary to sort them to the most minute difference of spelling.

  • Each effective title, is in effect, a plan for the codification of the legal subject-matter grouped under that title, and the whole index if completed would be a summary of a code arranged in alphabetical order.

  • Indexes to be arranged in alphabetical order, proper names and subjects being united in one alphabet.

  • Erasmus supplied alphabetical indexes to many of his books; but even in his time arrangement in alphabetical order was by no means considered indispensable in an index, and the practice came into general use very slowly.

  • However, in very large establishments, it is advisable to subdivide them by departments and arrange the cards of all employes in the department in alphabetical order.

  • Back of this index the cards of all applicants for positions as machinists will be filed in alphabetical order.

  • In each of these divisions, the catalogues of all manufacturers listing that class of goods are arranged in alphabetical order.

  • These cards are kept in filing drawers, where they are located in alphabetical order by the names of the articles they represent.

  • Each member of the Senior Class, taking them in alphabetical order, is required to deliver an oration before graduating, and on such nights as the Faculty may decide.

  • The Triennial Catalogue for that year was the first in which the names of the students appeared in an alphabetical order.

  • De viribus herbarum' deals with seventy-seven plants in alphabetical order, and describes their virtues in mediaeval Latin verse, which is believed to date back to the tenth century.

  • The chapters are arranged in alphabetical order.

  • One of the sections of which it is composed is concerned with an account of a large number of trees and herbs, arranged in alphabetical order, and is chiefly occupied with their medicinal properties.

  • They are arranged in alphabetical order, and are kept in neat wooden boxes.

  • The plates are given in alphabetical order, and are numbered for convenience in reference.

  • They were numbered on the back, and were kept in alphabetical order.

  • The judge took up the document, and, with his pen in his hand, he noted each letter in alphabetical order.

  • More entries follow in an alphabetical order according to proper names or adjectives derived from proper names or the subject matter.

  • Of a Catalogo di commedie italiane published in 1776 he says: "It is said to be an extremely rare pamphlet that contains all the Italian comedies arranged in alphabetical order according to the authors' names.

  • He has admitted only pertinent books and has arranged their titles carefully in alphabetical order according to first names.

  • Corrected from the best authorities and arranged in alphabetical order.

  • In this little Dictionary, as we have already stated, the proverbs are arranged in alphabetical order, according to the leading words, and are consecutively numbered.

  • Ray, after long premeditation, has chosen a system with the appearance of an alphabetical order, but it turns out that his system is no system, and his alphabet is no alphabet.

  • This being the case, some kind of tabulation becomes absolutely necessary, and the best that occurs to my mind is to place the Latin titles of all the chief centres of printing in alphabetical order, and append to each the English equivalent.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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