Example sentences for: dicta

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

  • Intrigued by Milton Horowitz's A Discouraging Word [OBITER DICTA, XXII, 1, 13], I set about tracking the word balagan along its etymological course back from the modern Hebrew into which, according to Milton Horowitz quoting Herman Wouk, the word was borrowed from Russian.

  • “Beyond Compare” [OBITER DICTA, XVIII, 4] does not mention a problem I had as a boy in referring to the younger of my two old brothers.

  • OBITER DICTA [ibid.

  • In OBITER DICTA [ XVIII, 4, 15], you remark that older has come to mean, in certain contexts at least, less old than old.

  • On another subject, lest a reader be misled into assuming that Skeat was a bishop by the facetious heading, “The Invariably Right Reverend Walter W. Skeat [OBITER DICTA, XVIII, 1], it should be pointed out that Right Reverend is the customary title for that rank in the Anglican Communion.


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