The Sentence Dictionary

Retrieve corpus sentences for a given word

Use this to retrieve sentences extracted from corpora which show how a word is used in the language. This is available for English and Spanish. For English, the sentences are linked to the correct sense of the word in the dictionary. In Spanish, they are linked at the headword level.

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get/entries/{source_language}/{word_id}/sentences

Request

  • Base URL
    https://od-api-demo.oxforddictionaries.com:443/api/v1
  • URL
    https://od-api-demo.oxforddictionaries.com:443/api/v1/entries/{source_language}/{word_id}/sentences
  • Auth
    none declared. Required headers: app_id, app_key

Path parameters

source_language'en' | 'es' required

IANA language code

word_idstring required

An Entry identifier. Case-sensitive.

Headers

app_idstring required

App ID Authentication Parameter

app_keystring required

App Key Authentication Parameter

Response

Successful response.

metadataobject

Additional Information provided by OUP

Changes

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