Example sentences for: pedantic

How can you use “pedantic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It's only January and I'm already tired of Bradley's pedantic tone and Gore's you-voted-for-vouchers-20-years-ago tone.

  • Starr's pedantic, religious, exacting personality led him to drag out a case that other prosecutors would have ended quickly.

  • Most speakers, on most speaking occasions, should sound natural, not pedantic.

  • (It's important, however pedantic it may sound, to keep stressing that only "some" or "a few" partook of such vengeance, since even choosing to discuss these acts--and not the vastly more extensive crimes that preceded them--threatens to distort history.)

  • Whenever I see the term African-American , with its sixteen letters, in print twelve times in a single article, I wonder if the writer realizes how much space is wasting and how pedantic it all sounds.


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