Example sentences for: locution

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

  • 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).


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