Example sentences for: elliptical

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

  • Built in 1679, it has towering columns and an unusual elliptical dome.

  • Note the characteristically airtight yet elliptical prose, the world-weary delicacy that records "the difference between a rule and a moral point" but commits neither to one nor the other.

  • The truth is that these sentences are really just elliptical constructions.

  • Such objects, with their elliptical wit, return us to the dark side of still life; these bones and cages and tacks and thermometers offer a deadpan answer to what life is: C'est la vie.

  • The anxious narrators of her disjointedly elliptical novels are always interrupting, challenging, undercutting themselves.


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