How to Use dictionary in a Sentence

dictionary

noun

• Look it up in the dictionary.
• Good to know the dictionary is on your side.
  — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 Nov. 2025
• Good to know the dictionary is on your side.
  — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Nov. 2025
• Never use a name or a word that can be found in a dictionary.
  — Larry Magid, The Mercury News, 22 Feb. 2024
• The dictionary didn’t help and there was no Google back then.
  — Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2021
• To press, find a thick heavy book, like a dictionary, and open to the middle.
  — Lindsey Vickers, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2020
• The dictionary can often say as much in a tweet as a pundit can in an hour.
  — Mary Schmich, chicagotribune.com, 11 May 2017
• New phrases were added to my dictionary.
  — Literary Hub, 10 Nov. 2025
• Those words have no business in a dictionary used to support a game.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 13 Apr. 2017
• To play the game, each person will take a turn choosing a word from the dictionary.
  — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 22 Feb. 2023
• Slang often leads to new words being added to the dictionary.
  — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 11 Nov. 2021
• One place people turn to search for meaning is the dictionary.
  — Katy Steinmetz, Time, 3 Oct. 2017
• For the terms that have been in the dictionary before, please use the new meanings.
  — Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2021
• Which implies that, yes, the age of the print dictionary must be passing.
  — Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025
• Look up ‘climate’ and ‘weather’ in the dictionary and get back to me.
  — Michael Lynch, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2022
• The dictionary says it's often used as a way to say something has been removed.
  — Nicholas Kerr, ABC News, 30 Apr. 2026
• Another dictionary is close to naming its word of the year, but needs your help.
  — Brenda Looper, Arkansas Online, 30 Nov. 2022
• The smaller-market teams are going to go the way of the dictionary.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 July 2019
• In the dictionary What comes at the end of Easter?
  — Nellah Bailey McGough, Southern Living, 2 Apr. 2026
• Call it the paradox of the modern dictionary.
  — Stefan Fatsis, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2025
• Nick, first buy a dictionary and then take a few courses in logic and the evils of bigotry.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 26 Jan. 2026
• Both girls went home with an $800 check each and dictionaries.
  — The Arizona Republic, 17 Mar. 2024
• In my fifth-grade classroom, the teacher kept a huge and heavy dictionary on the back table.
  — Beth Thames | [email protected], al, 24 Aug. 2022
• Blake asked Santa for books, a dictionary, compass and a watch.
  — Janelle Griffith, NBC News, 19 Dec. 2019
• Once, every middle-class home had a piano and a dictionary.
  — Louis Menand, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
• The dictionary is updating or adding new words at the rate of fifteen thousand a year.
  — Louis Menand, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
• The result seems scrambled because the dictionary is messed up.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
• My grandfather used to read the dictionary and encouraged us to do the same.
  — Yásnaya Elena A. Gil (tr. Ellen Jones), The Dial, 26 Nov. 2024
• The most beautiful word in the entire dictionary of words is the word tariff.
  — NBC News, 1 Dec. 2024
• Like the rest of the analog world, legacy dictionaries have had to adapt or perish.
  — Louis Menand, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025