Example sentences for: emotive

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

  • To miss the crucial element of emotive charge that even a simple, one-syllable word may convey, to lose or pass over the nuance of meaning is to lose Shakespeare's feeling as well.

  • It isn't just the supply of dirty words that matters, it's their emotive power.

  • Reports from the front were emotive.

  • I'm not sure there is an easy way to convey to anybody under 30, for example, the sheer emotive force that the word "[expletive]" possessed in the urban childhood culture of 40 years ago.

  • The liberal Guardian had an emotive front page story on the initiative under a seven-column headline "Now is the time for courage," and an editorial expressing relief that the Spice Girls had crept into the No.


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