Words similar to diction
Example sentences for: diction
How can you use “diction” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Elsewhere, Anderson uses Mamet actors and Mamety diction, but he's the Anti-Mamet.
Spooner admitted “occasional infelicities in verbal diction” but became openly irritated when his name was associated with oral transpositions.
Better yet, the dubbed Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Marlon Brando, and company made me conscious of how I had originally “heard” Superman I , and of how I commonly ignore what pitch and range (apart from diction and idiom) contribute to any language.
During a NewsHour discussion of Vernon Jordan's testimony, Shields comes out with the bizarrely malapropos comment that Vernon Jordan's elocutionary style reminds him of nothing more than Barbara Jordan's measured diction.
The following list is a small sample of the deranged diction offered by the media over a two-year period.