Example sentences for: circumlocution

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

  • Two hundred pages further on there is less exuberance in the circumlocution “that fluid so terribly scarce in the region,” and in three other references water is simply water . Giles is not always waxing poetic and may, like other explorers, be useful as a source for the history of Australian and general English.

  • The decision of the editor (who even now is hiding behind this circumlocution, but yes, it was me) to forgo a bibliography should not have prevented him from acknowledging this indispensable work.

  • Eventually I concluded even the correct word would have become maddening from repetition, unrelieved by a synonym or circumlocution.

  • Ten pages on (page 17), water occurs nine times but there are also the related words stream (twice), well (twice), pool, channel , and the circumlocution “essential element.”

  • I have some sympathy for Doug Briggs's stance against American circumlocution.


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