Example sentences for: attribution

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

  • She says it lacks sourcing and attribution, "reverberates with the cloying sound of the talk-show confessional," and has a "propensity for Gothic melodrama and romance-novel prose."

  • I have also passed on the remark and the attribution to two or three generations of my students.

  • Lewis has been a reliable First Amendment defender, but his last column suggested that judges should hold journalists in contempt (and even throw them in jail)if they keep publishing "stories without attribution based on gossip, speculation and innuendo."

  • Those who would derive the expression directly from the peg tankard sense are thus not correct, for, while that attribution might have been the original source, the expression itself is traceable only to a metaphor once removed from the tankard.

  • Presidents and their speech writers have mined their predecessors for memorable words and repeated them without attribution.


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