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Example sentences for "generic term"

  • It is generally agreed that it was a generic term, indicating the races with which their conquerors were supposed to be connected, and not the particular term of which Manetho's word Hoiveves would be the literal translation.

  • A generic term given to earthenware with tin enamelled surface.

  • A generic term applied to specimens in the manner of the Astburys, with raised floral decoration of white on a red unglazed body.

  • A generic term used in regard to unglazed red stoneware with applied decoration in the style of the Elers brothers.

  • Fluid is a generic term, including liquids and gases as species.

  • Move is a generic term, including the sense of remove, which is more generally applied to a change from one station or permanent position, stand, or seat, to another station.

  • Note: Fluid is a generic term, including liquids and gases as species.

  • Note: The word is generally applied to highways, and as a generic term it includes highway, street, and lane.

  • Aristotelian Logic) Defn: A generic term, or a term applicable in the same sense to all the species it embraces.

  • In Durham is a Pickburn or Pigburn; beck is a generic term for a small stream; in Devon is a river Becky, and in Monmouthshire a river Beeg.

  • In the East Bel was a generic term meaning lord: in the West it seemingly meant, just as it does to-day, fine or beautiful.

  • Side-note: Relation between a generic term, and the specific terms comprehended under it, was not then familiar.

  • To assign the one common meaning, constituent of or connoted by a generic term, had never yet been put before them as a problem.

  • Relation between a generic term, and the specific terms comprehended under it, was not then familiar 13 Frequent cases, in which men pray for supposed benefits, and find that when obtained, they are misfortunes.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "generic term" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    answered the little girl; bent upon; board them; dear love; feed water; fit the; gained the; generic character; generic term; good remedy; long after; musical education; natural consequence; nitrogenous food; noble captain; respectable woman; roman letter; short interval; take cognizance; une voix; various periods; weighed anchor; you two