Example sentences for: so-called

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

  • The second--the so-called "covenant marriage"--makes divorce far more difficult.

  • In Israel Monday, the Jerusalem Post said that, next week, Israel will "officially release a so-called dirty list, containing the names of more than a dozen international organizations, both public and private, which the government alleges hold information on Holocaust victims and other related activities, which they are refusing to publish."

  • There is rather a double standard, first the so-called American Standard that textbooks try to inculcate, the dignified parlance of discourse, and then the related but divergent American Wit, the standard of ingenuity, which trafficks freely in analogy, pun, and portmanteau.

  • I notice that Giuliani, also according to the News , has declined to backtrack on his opposition to a law banning so-called "partial birth" abortion.

  • USA Today and the Washington Post lead with a federal appeals court ruling that Secret Service agents are not relieved from testifying before Kenneth Starr's grand jury by any so-called "protective function" privilege.


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