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Example sentences for: quotations
How can you use “quotations” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
I love to browse through Bartlett's Familiar Quotations . It may be lazy of me, but I like to taste the plums of many authors whose full puddings I cannot digest.
These quotations aptly reflect the continuing controversy over international trade policies.
What Brewer's Quotations does contain is the most commonly misquoted, misattributed, misascribed, misremembered and most disputed sayings that there are.
) Some other suggested sources of biblical quotations: Oliver Twist for "A man after his own heart" (Samuel 13:14); Dorothy Parker for "Don't cast your pearls before swine" (Matthew 7:6); Catullus or Pink Floyd for "The writing on the wall" (Daniel 5:5); Marine Corps recruiting advertisement for "Many are called, but few are chosen" (Matthew 22:14).
It is perhaps unfair to review the Bloomsbury Dictionary of Phrase & Allusion alongside the Brewer's Twentieth Century: despite the similarity of the titles, the former is a slighter work; also, it consists largely of quotations and the titles of books, plays, films, and other written works traceable to them (and vice versa).
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