Example sentences for: solecisms

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

  • Maybe the funniest piece Rokyo ever wrote was an extended parody of one of Daley's frequent solecisms.

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

  • 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.

  • Last week, as I was arranging my notes on solecisms called from television, radio, and newspapers, I suddenly realized that updating the long list, even without citing dates and perpetrators, had begun to take up too much time.

  • For instance, I have a very low tolerance for spelling errors and grammatical solecisms in letters of application from those soliciting work: job applicants who are too careless to correct the capitalization of california and the spelling Britian get short shrift, though I am more tolerant of those using presently for now .


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