Example sentences for: dicta

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

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

  • In OBITER DICTA [XXIII,3,16] Tony Hall writes... the square of 5.5 is not a simple piece of mental arithmetic.

  • Re your recent OBITER DICTA [XXI,1], I'm sorry you did not delve further into the idea that the word black is on its way out.

  • Anent “Beyond Compare” [OBITER DICTA, XVIII, 4], let me throw another clod in the churn.

  • 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.


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