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How to use emend in a sentence

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The egg case secreted by the Cenozoic argonautids was shaped like Cretaceous ammonites, which their ancestors used to occupy and emend.
Many modern editions, including the Oxford, take the view that the novel in part derives from the play, and use it to emend the defective quarto text.
You do not emend Housman, perhaps the most forbidding textual commentator in the history of English-speaking scholarship, and get off lightly.
Most modern scholars emend the text of Pausanias and reidentify Herodotus's Pheidon as the grandson of the great man.
To borrow and slightly emend the words of Shakespeare: That cat will mew, but this dog will have the day.
The Diccionario de Plantas Agrícolas and Zander refer to this species under the name R. spicatum Robs. emend.
Fraternal correction consists of trying to emend the brothers through charity and not to punish them.
But writers also seem driven to confront, reinterpret and emend the canon.
Leyland agreed to pay Whistler a thousand guineas to emend Jeckyll's scheme, but later, unconvinced of the job's worth, he delivered the sum in the lesser denomination of pounds.
This species displays the main characteristics of the genus Conochitina Eisenack, emend.
New to this edition are 21 new drugs, including Merck's Emend and Novartis's Tasigna, and revision of the sections on acetaminophen and upper respiratory combinations.
Examples from Classical Literature
Some critical scholar of eminence should be called upon to emend or explain this mysterious passage.
To emend the Vulgate by the Hebrew and Greek is exactly what the heretics seek to do.
Second, all critics have agreed to condemn the digression in which Theobald advertised his ability to emend Greek texts.
The alteration is very slight, affecting only one letter, and may be due to error in transcription or to mere desire to emend.
Some of these are trivial slips that a scribe copying B might emend on his own initiative, or perhaps by a lucky mistake.
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