How To Use Apostrophize In A Sentence
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I didn't apostrophize my plurals in my post.
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Oudolf has made some knowing winks to New York City's indigenous (or ubiquitous) plant life, including his use of sumac, a shrub with compound leaves reminiscent of Ailanthus altissima, the weedlike "tree of heaven" apostrophized in Betty Smith's best-selling novel A Tree Grows in Brooklyn of 1943 as an archetypal urban survivor accustomed to the toughest settings.
Up in the Park
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Lost, Milton "apostrophizes the devil as the true principium individuationis, a concept which has been anticipated by the alchemists for some time before.
Romanticism, Alchemy, and Psychology
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And consequently the surface of the hill began to disappear, and there were chasms in the orad, which caused those who travelled on wheels to sit still, staring across with angry eyes, and sometimes to apostrophize the doer of these deeds with very naughty words.
Castle Richmond
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Then, too, beyond this cross-lexical effect, there is the adjective's quiet anagrammaticization in the immediately following line, where "silent entangler" telescopes under conversion to "listener" — sleep apostrophized as if overhearing its own wordplay.
Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
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As he strode over a gutter, he apostrophized a bearded portress who was worthy to meet Faust on the
Les Miserables
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She had, therefore, no sooner formed the hasty conclusion, that the individual in question belonged to this obnoxious class, than she resumed her former occupation, and continued to soliloquize and apostrophize her absent handmaidens, without even appearing sensible of his presence.
Saint Ronan's Well
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The prophetic message consisted of three different portions: -- First, Sennacherib is apostrophized (2Ki 19: 21-28) in a highly poetical strain, admirably descriptive of the turgid vanity, haughty pretensions, and presumptuous impiety of the Assyrian despot.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Both frequently apostrophize unidentified addressees, and both manipulate pronouns in intriguing ways, but his lyrics imply mundane, domestic situations.
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Moreover, there are no examples of collectives being apostrophized with the regularity that this personification receives.
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He could be glimpsed in the dedications of at least 40 books, from Berton Roueche's true stories of medical detection to Salinger's "Franny and Zooey," where he was apostrophized as "lover of the long shot, protector of the unprolific" - that is, a writer's editor.
A Lover Of The Long Shot
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She apostrophized Theodule: — “Are you aware whether your cousin knows you?”
Les Miserables
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Lucy apostrophizes the elements as her demonic foe.
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The column was replete with properly positioned apostrophes, including this multi-apostrophized sentence: "And his books did contain valuable news: of the Wolfowitz axis 'early push to take on Iraq, of the president's messianic view of himself as God's chosen warrior, of the Powell-Rumsfeld conflicts that led to the war's catastrophic execution.
Arianna Huffington: Arianna's Grammar Pet Peeve: The Apostrophe Crisis
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In lyrics, I would claim, this possibility of address reveals a fundamental structure - whether the poem actually apostrophizes anyone or anything.
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Then, too, beyond this cross-lexical effect, there is the adjective's quiet anagrammaticization in the immediately following line, where "silent entangler" telescopes under conversion to "listener" — sleep apostrophized as if overhearing its own wordplay.
Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
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So, wait: we get “symbolize,” “representations,” and even, wonder of wonders, the correctly apostrophized which is to say, not apostrophized at all “its counterparts,” but then there’s “beutifle?”
Regretsy – Cat Fight
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Mr. Siegel apostrophized, referring to the company's CEO.
Gospel According to Its TV Execs
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I hate when I apostrophize words incorrectly and there is no edit feature.
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It is no accident therefore that this body of work is liberally festooned with skulls; populated by zombies, snarling wolves, vipers, black cats, and gestures towards a sort of apostrophized occultism.
Psychedelic Denver
