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Example sentences for: locution
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Isn't this an odd locution for a paper with a style sheet so famously politically correct that it bans such non-issue locutions as "to welsh on a bet"?
The LAT front and the insides of the Wall Street Journal and the WP report that a consortium of Blue Cross health plans in 38 states (why does the WSJ in its story use the odd locution "more than 35 states"?)
This is an odd locution, not only in light of circumstance, but also because the Russian word grozny is commonly translated as "terrible" or "terrifying."
Figures like Gracie Allen on Burns and Allen , as well as Jane Ace, known as radio's mistress of misinformation on The Easy Aces , simply turned that kind of locution into a routine in the 1930s.
I am probably one of your longest-standing subscribers (a very awkward locution but I am probably not one of your oldest).