say-so

How to use say-so in a sentence

Many so-called "humming tones" are given for practice, but in accepting them observe whether the foregoing principle is obeyed.

EXPRESSIVE VOICE CULTUREJESSIE ELDRIDGE SOUTHWICK

In future years the poor-rate (so-called) will include, in addition to these, all other rates levyable by the Corporation.

SHOWELL'S DICTIONARY OF BIRMINGHAMTHOMAS T. HARMAN AND WALTER SHOWELL

Perhaps his almost perfectly spontaneous love of tiny flowers is already a considerable advance on his so-called prototype.

The so-called war credit banks are designed to serve this purpose.

Or ne say-je quelle estoit sa maladie; si elle venoit seulement par intervalles, ou non, je n'en say rien: tant y a que le 2.

Her active intellect and love of freedom sympathized with the speculations of the so-called philosopher.

In both cases the riparian owner, so-called, may erect a wharf extending from his land subject to public control.

We were in a so-called trench on the edge of a wood—a damned rotten place to be, and we got hell.

Thus, additional political rights were furnished to the colonists by this so-called Virginia Constitution of 1621.

ITo heaven cry aloud, and to the world:“Who hath reduced her to this pass?Say, say!”

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985

WORD OF THE DAY