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Example sentences for "circumlocution"

Lexicographically close words:
circumferences; circumferential; circumflex; circumfluent; circumjacent; circumlocutions; circumnavigate; circumnavigated; circumnavigating; circumnavigation
  1. The consignee is told to file a claim, which then makes its weary round through the circumlocution office where clerks are called investigators.

  2. The result is expensive circumlocution and a lack of human touch.

  3. This beautiful example of circumlocution is expensive.

  4. We say to him, this is so different that your vouchers and checks are worthless until mulled over by a distant circumlocution office.

  5. He can do all this without becoming bureaucratic, without putting the company to the expense of a great circumlocution office maintained under the feudal notion of his royal importance.

  6. Ask her to write me and tell me without circumlocution what she thinks of my effort, especially the conception on the whole.

  7. There was not the slightest flavour of the Circumlocution Office about their proceedings.

  8. It was especially observable that English Circumlocution, and English Society on its travels, were as humorous on the subject as Circumlocution and Society may be on any subject without loss of caste.

  9. There is wonderful despatch in the simple machinery set in motion by the aborigines of our country upon such occasions, executing their purpose with a speed which proves their ignorance of the wise "circumlocution offices" of civilization.

  10. Then, with a considerable amount of circumlocution and elaborate comment, the butler related the conduct of Chichester towards Snoggles, and their accidental meeting that morning.

  11. If private generosity was not appealed to circumlocution must be resorted to by means of requisitions which would be slowly forwarded to London and there passed upon.

  12. By this means the supplies would reach the front within three months after the patients were dead--provided that all should go smoothly with the circumlocution machinery.

  13. A far more legitimate exception has been taken to these Circumlocution Office episodes as defective in art by the very reason of their being exaggerations.

  14. The mere name of the Circumlocution Office was a stroke of genius, one of those phrases of Dickens which Professor Masson justly describes as, whether exaggerated or not, "efficacious for social reform.

  15. With the exception of the Circumlocution Office passages--adventitious as they are to the progress of the action--Little Dorrit exhibits a palpable falling-off in inventive power.

  16. For whilst invective of a general kind runs off like water from the rock of usage, even Circumlocution Offices are not insensible to the acetous force of satire.

  17. By the time you have got a group of committees, independent of one another and working at cross purposes, you have got Dickens's famous Circumlocution Office, where the great object in life was "how not to do it.

  18. The announcement was made so abruptly, with so little circumlocution or preparation, that Lionel Verner failed at the first moment to take in the full meaning of the words.

  19. The stranger, propping himself against a broken tub, proceeded, with some circumlocution and not remarkable perspicuity of speech, to deliver the message with which he was charged.

  20. We believe in a free England and a pure England, because we still believe in the Circumlocution Office account of this matter.

  21. I was sent here by the keeper of our place to know the outlook for a continuance of police protection," he replied without any circumlocution about saying what he had in mind.

  22. They must act without going through the circumlocution of formal discussion and the entanglements of red tape, he told them.

  23. Here we have a circumlocution equivalent to I have a father.

  24. The notion given by [Greek: tetupha] we express by the circumlocution I have beaten.

  25. In the English language the circumlocution is unnatural.

  26. Mr. Merdle had got a very rich position for him in the "Circumlocution Office" with which Arthur Clennam had had so much trouble once on a time.

  27. Charles Dickens has given us an amusing account of an English Circumlocution Office, but English red tape dwindles into insignificance by the side of Spanish red tape.

  28. To use such circumlocution in narration, as shews a design to deceive, S.

  29. This phrase is perhaps merely a circumlocution for the bipennis, or large ax.

  30. We have seen that Warton recognized in the "Runic poets" a warmth of fancy which expressed itself in "circumlocution and comparisons, not as a matter of necessity, but of choice and skill.

  31. They appear to use circumlocution and comparisons not as a matter of necessity, but of choice and skill: nor are these metaphorical colourings so much the result of want of words, as of warmth of fancy.


  32. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "circumlocution" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    circling; circularity; circulation; circumlocution; crinkle; deviation; digression; excursion; gyre; indirection; involution; meander; meandering; metaphor; orbit; orbiting; redundancy; roundabout; simile; speech; spiral; spiraling; tautology; torsion; turning; twisting; verbiage; wave; waving; winding