Example sentences for: circumspection

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

  • 70," he wrote, "the jarrings of parties [in Congress], though they may sometimes obstruct salutary plans, yet often promote deliberation and circumspection, and serve to check excesses in the majority."

  • Bradley's choices, the Post notes, "display characteristics that recurred often in his public life: foresight, circumspection, and skill at finding advantage while adhering strictly to the rules."

  • (A particular paradox: In insisting on Eleanor's lesbianism as central, she follows the lack of circumspection of ER's contemporary detractors , not allies.)


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