Example sentences for: circumlocutions

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

  • One respondent mentions "y'all," an excellent example--English used to make a distinction between singular "thou" and plural "you," but now only Southern varieties of English are capable of this distinction without resorting to circumlocutions.

  • It is closer to the truth to say that woolly circumlocutions, psychobabblous phrasing and sentiments, and language used as if it were a game of horseshoes (in which one expects points for being close) offends me.

  • At best, they may be understood as diplomatic circumlocutions, designed to ease Russia's political dilemma in the Balkans and thus avert further frictions with Moscow," it said.

  • Newspapers coyly refer to it with euphemisms and circumlocutions, Tshirt vendors stock shirts emblazoned with its many parts of speech.


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