Example sentences for: phraseology

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

  • The standard phraseology I am leaning toward for discussing future events is "an event to occur on a day subsequent to the several other days that shall proceed duly in the natural course of time forward from the present moment, eventually accruing into units characterized as months and, much later, years."

  • In a long review-essay, Wieseltier demolished West's stature as a "public intellectual," portraying him as a pretentious egomaniac, a mass of contradictions, and a superficial thinker who dresses up diluted Marxism in incomprehensible phraseology.

  • Four days later, the Journal ran an editor's note that read as follows: "There are striking similarities in phraseology between "The Day Richard Nixon Said Goodbye," an editorial feature Monday by Monica Crowley, and a 1988 article by Paul Johnson in Commentary magazine ...

  • There is a lovely example in Fowler about government , which shows how slack political phraseology can turn out to be (we just dropped a False Scent --no comma between the qualifiers of phraseology -- see below) a black beast in any era; obviously the beast was rampaging even in Fowler's golden days.

  • Wortsalat means obscure phraseology and mysterious wording, often referring to page-length sentences that can crop up in the writing of bureaucrats and politicians.


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