Example sentences for: diction

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

  • 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 ?

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • More subtle effects were introduced through Communist diction.

  • The script, a bare-bones affair with amusingly movieish period diction ("What manner of instruments are these?"


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