Example sentences for: encomium

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

  • Tributes to Barry Goldwater as the last of a breed of terminally straight-talking politicians continue pouring in, but so far, only David Broder's encomium mentions that the late Senator once showed reporters the near-nude and suggestively inscribed photo of herself a woman fan had sent him.

  • A typical quote from the ongoing encomium: "[W]hat made Robeson controversial was his willingness to step outside the frame which usually contains the works of artists and his status as an artist to advance a complex program of civil and human rights changes around the world and in the United States."

  • But what if I work out the text of my encomium with his campaign manager?

  • Even some of Vance's proper nouns hint strongly at the existence of daily words: Universal Pancomium, the name of a large boat, suggests a more generalized category of encomium; reading Dylas Extranuator (a spaceship) compels us to ask what extranuate might mean—perhaps strain in wonder?

  • I know this sounds like the beginning of an encomium for the Times at the expense of the Post , but it's not.


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