i can't get the example sentences displayed that i chose. skritter displays examples that are not in the list and if i chose another one nothing is displayed at all. if i look up for more info on the word with the magnifying glass the example is displayed ok. once i go on studying the examples do not work again.

here is an example: for 应该 i get the following example sentence: 另外一些人认为应该开辟更多的公交路线,因为公共汽车载客多.

I find it to lonh and want to change it. Looking up all examples i can chose from the following, the above sentence is not one of them.

我看你不应该.
wǒ kàn nǐ bù yīnggāi.
I don't think you ought to.
你应该可怜他.
nǐ yīnggāi kělián tā.
You should take pity on him.
你应该去看医生.
nǐ yīnggāi qù kàn yīsheng.
You should see a doctor.
你应该再细心些.
nǐ yīnggāi zài xìxīn xiē.
You want to be more careful.
应该这样做工作.
yīnggāi zhèyàng zuò gōngzuò.
The work should be done in this way.
你真不应该那样做!
nǐ zhēn bù yīnggāi nàyàng zuò!
You shouldn't have done that!
我们应该分清是非.
wǒmen yīnggāi fēnqīng shìfēi.
We should make a distinction between right and wrong.
决不应该责备她.
jué bù yīnggāi zébèi tā.
She was in no way to blame.
你认为应该干预吗?
nǐ rènwéi yīnggāi gānyù ma?
Do you consider it wise to interfere?
我们应该遵守礼节.
wǒmen yīnggāi zūnshǒu lǐjié.
We should observe the proprieties.

I chose example number 3: 你应该去看医生, but ot wont be displayed and i still see the very long and rather difficult sentence i mentioned in the beginning. I guess you are working on implementing custom examples and i understand if there are some bugs. I actually very much appreciate that effort and can't wait to use my own custom examples. thx

Yes, I've just come across this problem today too. Never seen it before.

Never used the example sentences before, but from what I see here it looks great. Am I right to think that this is in the process of being added to the app?

Sorry for hijacking the thread.

Right; the example sentence system is in flux, so choosing example sentences doesn't work any more until I get the chooser popup to use the new sentence system (which is what I'm working on today).

It'll be a little longer before we add it into the iOS app, but yes, they'll be in there after they're ready on the web.

I've just uploaded a new sentence chooser popup on beta, so try it out over there. Don't have the adding/editing of sentences yet.

I've started to copy and paste in the sentences under the definition manually. Slow I know. Any idea when this feature will available on iOS?

I'll be dumb and make a public development estimate for you: probably in January or February. Thou shalt not treat this as a promise.

I have new sentence creation working on beta for Chinese, now, but the interface needs a lot of work.

ok, noted as example sentence is a very usefull tool, can'wait to see it re working

@nick, you should make a bet with Mike@Pleco and see who can release closest to the estimated date :P

works great! For me this really is a mayor improvement and a am very happy to be able to use my own sentences (mostly picked from tatoeba; dict.cn and dr.eye). i have one issue though: some of the sentences i want to imput are marked as allready existing and i wont let me save them. i can't pick them from the (limited to 10?) list though. any ideas on that?

Can you give me some examples of sentences, eurowatz, and which words you're trying to input them for? It may be that we need to implement paging on this guy, or perhaps bring in the existing sentence when you try to create it.