Example sentences for: gratuitous

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

  • As for the impact on the profession, one must, with a sigh, agree with Professor Mellinkoff that “gratuitous literary advice ...

  • Enjoying this wonderful Web site featuring the extraordinary work of Michael Wilde, though knowing at any moment Kate Galbraith could hack my gratuitous plug to smithereens.

  • The piece is bylined with pseudonyms but bears the unmistakable mark of comic novelist David Foster Wallace: excessive footnotes, excessive and nontraditional abbreviations, excessive and occasionally cloying self-consciousness, gratuitous use of Latin phrases, and employment of 10 cent words such as "cathedra," "synecdoche," and "clerestories."

  • On both counts, prewar anti-clericalism and postwar apocalyptic angst gave the Surrealists and Dubuffet, respectively, historic urgency lacking in the gratuitous neo-primitivism of Ofili.

  • Instead she runs through all the euphemisms for oral sex and then the video cuts to XXX action with gratuitous commentary.


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