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Example sentences for "aposiopesis"

Lexicographically close words:
apophthegms; apophyses; apophysis; apoplectic; apoplexy; apostacy; apostasies; apostasy; apostate; apostates
  1. The rhythmical aposiopesis represents a rhetorical pause for which the strongly accented 'troopt' and 'all' compensate.

  2. Like the preceding instance in so far as the aposiopesis indicates question and surprise.

  3. The rhetorical emphasis on 'her' compensates (with the hovering accent) for the aposiopesis before 'Persia.

  4. Epiphonema with a masterly Aposiopesis (or breaking off); "tut!

  5. Epiphonema which my uncle's Aposiopesis had before nipped in the bud, "and yet you would have made us, who are twice as rich, rob you of this little all!

  6. The aposiopesis here is in character with Hotspur, but there may be a line or more lost.

  7. There is an evident aposiopesis here, which the editors have not perceived.

  8. The aposiopesis removes all need of alteration.

  9. There is either an aposiopesis or a line lost after this; I think the latter.

  10. There is perhaps an aposiopesis here; otherwise I should incline to read touch, as Mr. Knight and Collier's folio also read.


  11. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "aposiopesis" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.