locution
Example Sentences
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An awkward locution, but it appeases the sensitivity police.
From Washington Post • Mar. 8, 2023
So, what is the history of this strange locution?
From Slate • Jan. 21, 2023
If the locution “hard-boiled” had not already been coined it would be necessary to coin it now to describe the characters of Dashiell Hammett’s latest detective story.
From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2021
And how about that use of "thumbing their noses"? With that aged locution, the good governor is, without doubt, speaking directly to his demographic.
From Salon • Sep. 18, 2021
How anybody can abide That punk expression, “nation-wide”— How one can view unhorrified That vile locution, nation-wide, I cannot see.
From The So-called Human Race by Taylor, Bert Leston
Vocabulary lists containing locution
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"The Pit and the Pendulum" by Edgar Allan Poe
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