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Example sentences for: locutions

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

These locutions would be of little importance, I think, if it were not for the fact that they have been adopted by most of the news media and the entertainment industry.
My guess is that it will achieve, at the very least, a kind of status that is going to be conferred on more and more English locutions as time goes on: the status of a native idiomatic expression whose constituency is in fact an international group of English speakers.
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 same can be said of certain other of Pepys's locutions, for example the past participle gotten instead of got: “..
There are also sundry off-the-rack locutions that can dress up language to similar effect, such as the long-established blah blah