Example sentences for: dictum

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

  • It would be a waste of time to go through the editions noting the differences: in most cases, the editors followed the wise dictum, “If it ain't broke, don't fix it,” so little has been done to the basic information in the original edition.

  • If, however, you see this cloud becoming blacker over time, then follow Prudie's dictum of "See no evil, Hear no evil, Date no evil."

  • Hewing to the journalistic dictum to "sell every piece twice," Mark Shields has perfected the art of recycling his own sound bites.

  • Jeff--brilliantly fulfilling the ancient journalistic dictum "Sell every piece three times"--has argued in the New Republic , the New York Times , and this week in Time magazine that Clinton's troubles are due to catastrophic defects in the sexual-harassment and special-prosecutor laws (with help from Clinton's own misbehavior, he always is careful to add).

  • It's as though after wrestling long and hard with Cézanne's dictum that the artist should paint the world of nature in terms of spheres, cylinders, and cones, Léger realized: Hey, here's an environment that's actually made of these shapes!


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