apposition

How To Use apposition In A Sentence

• But most birds and Sphenodon lack intromittent organs and transfer sperm by cloacal apposition.
• Indeed, Burton-Roberts suggests that loose apposition extends to the juxtaposition of sentences.
• The theme of"disillusion"in the urban fiction is composed of three levels:li fe, living and being, and includes two narrative structures"linear dev elopm ent" and"transverse apposition".
• Choirs" is so obviously in apposition with "boughs" in the line above ( "Upon those boughs which shake against the cold") that I wonder how anyone could think to take it otherwise than "I am now an old man who not so very long ago was much like a blossoming tree in whose boughs birds warbled sweetly. Letters to the Editor
• By means of the universal ‘I,’ he brings the concepts of performance and political involvement into apposition with the categories of immigrant, exile, and criminal.
• Hence the plug is a specialized cytoplasmic structure, unlike desmosomes, gap junctions, or septate junctions, which are formed from membrane appositions.
• Long sentences with subclauses loosely strung together and lots of words in apposition likewise suggest that meaning can be continually modified rather than structured into discrete differential units.
• This book examines apposition as well as poetic compounds, amphibolies, and certain other narrative devices as keys to style and structure of Beowulf.
• Rather, "the glory of the country" is in apposition with "cities" which immediately precedes, and the names of which presently follow. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
• Indeed, Burton-Roberts suggests that loose apposition extends to the juxtaposition of sentences.