Example sentences for: solecisms

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

  • I could detect no other solecisms, so I assumed he was taking aim at the use of the singular verb with the noun media.

  • The writing is easy to read and colloquial (by which I mean it contains the classic solecisms that purists deride).

  • They, too, can read and write, of course, but their “solecisms,” “barbarisms,” and “vulgarisms” call for rebuke, and what better rebuke than to treat them as if they did not belong at all—to condemn them figuratively to the outer darkness of the unlettered?

  • The most common solecisms are those of syntax and grammatical gender.

  • David Galef has coined the term morox [XIV, 2] to designate unintentional, inelegant oxymorons such as many fewer problems, largely insignificant , and barely clothed . I collect solecisms of all sorts that I hear on television broadcasts.


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