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Example sentences for "better word"

  • His physical attributes are more difficult to describe, so closely were they allied to those which, for want of a better word, must be called mental.

  • It may be called the extreme Protestant position, and I use protestant, for want of a better word, to express what I believe is Paul's true as distinguished from the false of his two inconsistent theologies.

  • The afternoon wore cool; nay, cold is a better word.

  • I said "humbler form" of art for lack of a better word; for a craft cannot fitly be called humble which has occupied and delighted men of the very highest gifts.

  • There is a better word of God than the Bible; there is a better word of God than any will uttered in His providences and the like.

  • They claimed them wonderfully and hopefully it is true, but they took me much away from what I can only call for want of a better word--(a better word: what a thing to say!


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    armed force; being still; better able; better advantage; better chance; better future; better have; better idea; better known; better life; better make; better results; better right; better tell; better than; better times; better view; better world; colonial empire; could not have told; get thee; great satisfaction; navicular disease; nitric acid; slightly alkaline; sound principles