Example sentences for: perpetuated

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  • In fact, such expressions may be perpetuated by others who hear the wrong version of the cliché, take it for granite, and, for all intensive purposes, use it as the genuine expression.

  • Unfortunately, the mistake is compounded and perpetuated by dragging in expressions like man in the street, the average working man , and others, and, as a result, the entire argument degenerates.

  • This statement perpetuated doubts about Murdoch's attitude to the British royal family.

  • Like “sparrow grass,” “calvary” for cavalry , one of Mr. Lederer's questionable examples of Slurvian, falls midway between pure mispronunciation and misunderstood expression, perpetuated by a massive misuse.

  • Other titles in the Brewer series, a name perpetuated more for commercial association with Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable than for relevance of content, are, in addition to Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, 14th Edition, Brewer's Concise Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, Brewer's Politics, Brewer's Theatre , and the anachronistic Brewer's Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Phrase and Fable [BIBLIOGRAPHIA, XVIII, 4, 19], Brewer's Cinema, and Brewer's Twentieth-Century Music .


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