Words similar to circumlocution
Example sentences for: circumlocution
How can you use “circumlocution” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Eventually I concluded even the correct word would have become maddening from repetition, unrelieved by a synonym or circumlocution.
I have some sympathy for Doug Briggs's stance against American circumlocution.
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.
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.”
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.