quotation
Example Sentences
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Still, there is profit and occasional jollity in brisk recapitulations of seminal events by a fluent storyteller with an eye for telling detail and apposite quotation.
Palm, rapeseed and sunflower oils all declined, offsetting a modest uptick in soyoil quotations.
This self-serving quotation has the ring of a memory fashioned in retrospect.
Paraphrasing is a useful timesaver, as it is not always convenient to stop and look up a quotation when making a point, especially if the situation is urgent, as this one surely was.
From Literature
There is also a fond quotation of a famous scene from its first sequel, “Aliens.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
