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Example sentences for: epigrams

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

O scar Wilde's comedies are doubtless long-winded, but their wind blows in from a high peak: The characters' formulations are bracing, and their epigrams have a sting.
The difference is that these earlier forms were inclined to take themselves seriously, while epigrams or aphorisms are more frequently reflexive and satirical.
As we shall see, many epigrams fall into more than one category, but the categories themselves are conceptually distinct.
Poems rely on narrative imagery to evoke feelings, while epigrams focus on contradictions to provoke thought.
Although epigrams are usually sorted into content categories, I am going to attempt a semantic and structural taxonomy.