Example sentences for: rhetorically

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • DeParle's one stab at a general assessment of the social health of Milwaukee's ghetto is rhetorically brilliant but ultimately unconvincing.

  • By rhetorically stacking their side of the question (to include husbands, doctors, and clergymen, along with women) and defining the other side as "the government," pro-choicers have won the sympathy of voters who dislike big government more than they dislike abortion.


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