Example sentences for: rhetorically

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

  • Citing a history of racism, including the historically well-documented Tuskegee Syphilis Study, Reid asks rhetorically whether genetics research will result in a “genetically modified” white upper class and a lower, dark-skinned “natural birth class”?

  • As Nicholas Lemann observed in the November Atlantic Monthly , American public schools are "rhetorically committed to decentralization" but in fact are "centralized in a patchwork, undeliberate way.

  • The term our times and its portentous relative our time (as in "one of the most important movies/books/recordings of our time ") are rhetorically vast but temporally indeterminate, even as they become trivialized by overuse.

  • Clarke recently recalled that an angry Sheehan asked rhetorically of Defense officials:"Does al Qaeda have to attack the Pentagon to get their attention?"

  • It wasn't persuasive then, and I don't believe the Disney folks will find it rhetorically effective now.


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