Example sentences for: diction

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

  • Like some of the phrases in other categories, several have become so common as to have ousted the original diction.

  • More subtle effects were introduced through Communist diction.

  • Ever since the Norman invasion, people have preferred to use the longer Latinate terms over the blunt Anglo-Saxon words: the general feeling, with some small basis, is that such diction shows a touch of class.

  • Is their diction cluttered with redundant words and phrases?

  • Why else would this famously settled director pick both a mainland Chinese cinematographer (who reportedly came with a team of translators) and a different kind of lead actor--one who wouldn't mimic Allen's diction like Mia Farrow in Purple Rose and Kenneth Branagh in Celebrity ?


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