Example sentences for: obiter

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

  • We thought we could ignore the error and it would go away, but readers keep reminding us of what might be called, because of its prominence, a typogiraffical error: in Murdering the Language [OBITER DICTA, XX,4,5], the grammatically proper form would have been Omar m'a tuée, (reflecting the feminine gender of the preceding m ') and not, as printed, tué .

  • In OBITER DICTA [XXIII,3,16] Tony Hall writes... the square of 5.5 is not a simple piece of mental arithmetic.

  • This is demonstrated in a variety of ways: a shared literacy and the assumptions and biases that go with it; an awareness of what books are for; consciousness and use of innumerable cultural allusions and educated idioms; and a relative ease in reading a periodical called VERBATIM, with sections called OBITER DICTA and EPISTOLAE.

  • I cannot resist the temptation to comment on Israel Wilenitz's comment in his EPISTOLA [XXIII,1,24] about my EPISTOLA [XXII,2,10] in response to Milton Horowitz's A Discouraging Word [OBITER DICTA, XXII,1,13].

  • The censors of the moment would have us refer to Mr. Perry as (to use examples from OBITER DICTA) a “non-slim African American adult male.”


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