Example sentences for: epigrams

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

  • Although my classification system does not apply to all the epigrams I have seen or published, it does seem to include most of them.

  • As we shall see, many epigrams fall into more than one category, but the categories themselves are conceptually distinct.

  • Substitution of sounds, syntax, or meaning also occurs in many epigrams.

  • I started writing them in my teens, and in 1976 I launched a magazine called Thoughts For All Seasons: The Magazine of Epigrams [ TFAS ]. The first issue of Thoughts came out in 1976, a bicentennial year.

  • The second item, on a lighter note, is one of Michel P. Richard's homophonic epigrams: “I regret that I have but one asterisk for my country’ (p.


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