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

For now, we present five propositions that arise from the channel perspective of this book.
There is, he says, "no straight line from these propositions to the solution of any real-life problem; they are of no help and do no work except the non-directing work of telling you that you are on your own."
According to Nash, true wit must meet the following standards: (1) The practitioner must have a quick mind, (2) The witticism must be stated within a very tight framework, and (3) It is characterized by four common rhetorical devices: parallelism, antithesis, definition, and quasi-philosophical propositions, an example being Woody Allen's line, Not only is God dead, but try getting a plumber on Sunday.
It works this way: You are given a piece of paper listing the candidates and propositions (a "ballot"), you indicate your choices using a device called (we believe) a "felt-tipped pen," then you deposit the piece of paper through a slot in a large container called a "ballot box."
Because such inquiry explores only one situation, it is argued that it cannot contribute directly to the testing of general propositions, although it can contribute powerfully to the invention of hypotheses.