term Examples

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Examples of term in a Sentence

Examples of term
1. They came to be known as the Mudéjares- the corruption of Mudegelin, an opprobrious term bestowed upon them by the Moors, derived from the word Degel which we are told was equivalent to Antichrist.
2. Asked to write a set of voluntaries, Mendelssohn — who admitted in an 1844 letter to Coventry that he did not understand what the term meant — fashioned a series of small pieces, then arranged them into multimovement works for publication in 1845.
3. That will do for the nonce, but we'll need a better answer for the long term.
4. I had thought that the term was a nonce, but it seems as if it's been picked up by other authors.
5. In the noncuple series, each term exceeds the octuple of the sum of its parts, by unity.
6. a nonvoidable term in a contract
7. To “sneak” implies that she was doing something wrong rather than using the proper, nonvulgar term for a body part, a term that children are presumably learning in their science classes.
8. This term would be useful as a phrase-book entry.
9. The word "Frog" is a politically incorrect term for a French person.
10. Cancer treatment and research are expanding to incorporate long-term postcancer care.
Examples of terms
1. If x=2y then 5x can be expressed in terms of y as 10y.
2. I switched to a different bank for better customer service, but there was little difference in terms of interest rates.
3. She has no idea how she wants the house to look in terms of décor.
4. I had no idea what on earth you were on about when you started using those scientific terms. I was totally confused.
5. We hope someday she and her mother will come to terms on the matter.
6. She finally came to terms with her addictions at her third rehab clinic and rarely drank again.
7. Until he comes to terms with the likelihood of failure, he will not succeed.
8. The surety claimed relief in terms of the beneficium excussionis, thus obliging the creditor to excuss against the principal debtor.
9. Norwich were back on level terms through an equally stunning finish by Morison in the 53rd minute, the former Millwall player letting fly from the edge of the area after being teed-up by Leon Barnett.
Examples of termed
1. the preservation of the race of man is made to grow out of that quickening impulse, which we call the life of humanity. This notion, which was called Traducianism by the schoolmen (the system opposed to it being termed Creatianism [sic])
2. 1993: We were warned at Cambridge, your grace, of the dangers of what is termed fideism. — Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford
3. The purchase of Alaska from Russia was termed Seward's folly.
4. [ …] papers are respectively of second or inferior quality, the last being perhaps torn or broken in the "make" — as the manufacture is technically termed.
5. If the tumour be termed myeloma the whole process may, for this reason, justly be termed "myelomatosis."
6. A species of shell-fish, often found sticking by its pedicle to the bottom of ships, doing no other injury than deadening the way a little: "Barnacles, termed soland geese In th' islands of the Orcades."