Example sentences for: locution

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

  • 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.

  • , he responded with a form postcard answering a question about the locution God Bless , one that Judge Scott and I could certainly get along without.

  • This duplicates precisely the U huntin'-shootin' -fishin' locution of my British youth, and could be another reason for calling West Indians the last Englishmen left around.

  • 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"?)

  • Thanks to all these term papers, TP has finally found an instance of towering journalistic integrity in the whole episode: At one point an LAT ad exec objected to the magazine's special issue's use of the locution "the Staples Center," because the facility's owners do not use the definite article.


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