[Lexicog] Criteria for example sentences

[Translation MALI]

What kind of picture is conjured up if you say in English:
1) He barked up the wrong tree.
2) The policeman barked an order.
3) His bark is worse than his bite.

How do these "barks" differ?

Fritz Goerling


MessageBenjamin Barrett wrote:
> I like the suggestion of using a sample sentence such as "the dog
> barks at X", "the telephone rang/I answered the telephone" to inform
> the user of commonly used verbs, though the danger of falling into
> cliches seems real.

To which Mike Maxwell had replied:
> My off-the-top reaction to this is that the example sentences
> here belong with the verb, not the noun.  Seals bark, too, as
> do children with the croup (and sometimes bosses).











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