Example sentences for: mention

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

  • For many years I was under the impression that John Dryden had inveighed against the ending of a sentence with a preposition, and I have included mention of it now and then in my writing.

  • The term has the advantage of avoiding mention of such gritty matters as arms shipments or coup plots, etc.--sort of like referring to death as a "health change."

  • Not to mention the fact that "a history of mental problems" turns up in the résumés of more and more troublemakers, like the guy who attacked George Harrison last week.

  • After a diligent search, I could find no earlier mention.

  • While Mr. Conniff is doubtless aware of the connection, he does not mention the fact that Johnson's poem is throughout a very close and respectful pastiche of the Latin poet Juvenal's Satire III, on the city of Rome.


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