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.


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