How to Use lexical in a Sentence

lexical

adjective
  • There are other ways to wage a social struggle on the lexical front.
    — The Economist, 22 June 2019
  • As ever, there’s a new round of Quordle against which to test your lexical skills.
    — Kris Holt, Forbes, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Then came the internet and, with it, ready-to-hand answers to all questions lexical.
    — Louis Menand, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Dumpster fire, in lexical and emoji form, defeated woke in a runoff.
    — Stefan Fatsis, Slate Magazine, 3 Feb. 2017
  • The trumpet and flugelhorn solos are what lead a large orchestra on its wild lexical ride.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Since this was a global health catastrophe, many of the lexical changes have been health-related.
    — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 24 Dec. 2020
  • And light drinkers weren't better than abstainers at lexical fluency, the study showed.
    — Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 15 Dec. 2017
  • And does a particular level of disuse have to be reached for a word to be dropped into the lexical dustbin?
    — Louis Menand, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Most of the videos are appended with searchable transcripts—a fun tool for those interested in lexical tics.
    — Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2017
  • Other words in this lexical field, though, have etymologies that stress more selfish instincts, along the lines of egoism.
    — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Part of my technique was also to invent an entire lexical field or vocabulary for these children.
    — Candice Frederick, Harper's BAZAAR, 20 Oct. 2020
  • Her decision to hold a snap election in June last year brought lexical complications.
    — James Masters, CNN, 27 Mar. 2018
  • Sometimes a word has to serve time in lexical purgatory before it can be admitted to the Big Book.
    — Louis Menand, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Or emoji might be a lexical fad, here for now but gone as soon as this wave of digital natives hands control of the global village over to the next generation.
    — Nick Stockton, WIRED, 24 June 2015
  • The wind’s direction was the most crucial lexical key, which in time prompted the inhabitants of Sumer to tell one wind from another.
    — Big Think, 18 Nov. 2025
  • From his lyrical brushstrokes to his lexical compositions, music is imbued even when the reference is subtle or ambiguous.
    — Natasha Gural, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
  • As Mesquita has noticed, many communities seem to manage fine without a lexical equivalent.
    — Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
  • The appearance of these five lexical inventions marks the first time that humankind ever attached words to this invisible and magical mystery.
    — Big Think, 18 Nov. 2025
  • Welcome to your Friday edition of Quordle, the word game that puts your lexical skills to the test four times as intensely as Wordle ever could.
    — Kris Holt, Forbes, 12 Aug. 2022
  • This result was very interesting, not least because lexical processing is also lateralized to the left hemisphere in most humans.
    — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 7 Apr. 2017
  • Because JavaScript interprets each number as a string type and does lexical sorting, not numerical sorting.
    — Sheon Han, WIRED, 4 Mar. 2024
  • The case studies were assessed for repetition, or what our team calls lexical diversity, and uniqueness, what our team calls information density.
    — Sergi Valverde, The Conversation, 15 Dec. 2022
  • The commission made a number of other lexical recommendations.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 16 Jan. 2018
  • Now, Biden and his supporters are making the next lexical jump, taking what was once an arcane word for physical assets and transforming it to mean anything the government deems worthy of spending.
    — Nicole Gelinas, Washington Examiner, 29 Apr. 2021
  • Apologies don’t come easily and sorry, therefore, is given special status – a lexical Gorilla Glue that works hard to do the impossible.
    — Vicky Spratt, refinery29.com, 16 July 2021
  • Merrill used innovative research methods such as eye-tracking, heat mapping and lexical analysis to study advisor/client interactions.
    — Bridget Brennan, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2021
  • The result is a measurable reduction in lexical, syntactic, and semantic diversity—the very fabric of meaning and precision.
    — Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
  • The remaining 10-ish percent of early texts includes scribes’ exercises to learn writing and lexical lists, or glossaries of words organized by theme like professions, animals or cities.
    — Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 2 Jan. 2019
  • Russian speakers in the experiment proved faster than English speakers at distinguishing shades that corresponded to that lexical distinction.
    — Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Laborious yet lithe lads and lasses have loyally leapt to luminate the lexical labyrinths of logic locking the lucrative lotto, longing to lure the lavish luxury lying latently in local landmarks.
    — Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 28 Jan. 2026

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