apostrophize

Example Sentences

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Or that the prolix Gaev — a man as likely to apostrophize a piece of furniture as the stars above — keeps promising he’ll be quiet.

From New York Times • Dec. 5, 2011

No bright and overwhelming genius appeared in 1947 to light the way and apostrophize the age.

From Time Magazine Archive

He hired four obscure artists to paint the illustrations exactly as he wanted them, and then got some second-rate poets to apostrophize the plants in sticky verse.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even Sweden's cautious Premier Per Albin Hansson was stirred to apostrophize a common Scandinavian labor market, economic collaboration, common Nordic citizenship.

From Time Magazine Archive

To apostrophize is to solemnly address some person or personified attribute apart from the audience to whom one is speaking; as, a preacher may apostrophize virtue, the saints of old, or even the Deity.

From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by Fernald, James Champlin