Example sentences for: mention

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

  • Mention of your "addresses and phone numbers," along with all these young people lurching in your direction would suggest there is an attraction beyond the obvious.

  • Isn't it a little surprising that the papers don't mention the similarity to the way Richard Nixon got his house with a little help from his rich friends?

  • None of the stories mention the prime recent example of Zinni's concern: the factions in Afghanistan at war with each other and associated with worldwide terrorism were incubated by a concerted U.S. mission in the 1980s to arm indigenous forces against the Soviet occupiers.

  • (The LAT doesn't mention the Indonesian invasion until five paragraphs from the end.)

  • It's a mistake for the paper not to mention that just such nameless investigators were also behind now-discredited press reports in the Times and elsewhere that the black box tapes had the relief co-pilot saying, "I've made my decision now," shortly before the plane's terminal dive.


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