syntax

Example Sentences

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"If someone looks closely, they can spot Russian syntax in these videos."

From BBC • Feb. 27, 2026

“The skill set of the future is not syntax or rote creation, but taste and judgment,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026

Even the mystery she’s trying to unravel depends on correctly parsing the meaning of syntax and conjugation.

From Salon • Jan. 18, 2026

I would also hate it if a photo of me “disappeared” my hair or captured me from “underneath angles,” famously the worst angles, and goddammit, Trump has once again gifted us some incredible syntax here.

From Slate • Oct. 14, 2025

We must think of art not in terms of everyday prose but of poetry, which is free to rearrange conventional vocabulary and syntax in order to convey new, often multiple, meanings and moods.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson