cite

In a sentence

Six example sentences with cite, each labelled with its topic.

• Reviewers who cite three lines of the poem out of order badly misrepresent what the closing stanza actually argues.

  Literature

• Students are expected to cite the passage that supports each claim rather than paraphrase it from memory.

  Philosophy

• Attorneys on both sides cite the same nineteenth century ruling, drawing opposite conclusions from a single paragraph.

  Law

• Papers that cite the original study rarely mention that its sample was forty students from a single university.

  Science

• The senator cited a report on bridge safety during the debate, though the report had been published before the bridge was built.

  Politics

• Historians cite the same three diaries for the flood years because almost nothing else written then survived.

  History

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains cite. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

More Academic words

• derived
• confer
• differentiated
• presumption
• accommodating
• indexing
• approximation
• commodity
• conclusive
• incoherent
• constrained
• comply