expletives
Example Sentences
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Expletives were not the only thing the Nixon team had deleted.
From Slate
While Expletives their feeble Aid do join, And ten low Words oft creep in one dull Line.
From Letters Concerning Poetical Translations And Virgil's and Milton's Arts of Verse, &c. by Benson, William
By all means drive Expletives from our highways; They are the ruin of our roads, The byword of our byways!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, August 20, 1892 by Various
It delights in Pronouns, Conjunctions, and Expletives and supplied links of all kinds, as well as in more considerable Additions.
From The Revision Revised by Burgon, John William
It is commonly apprehended from a Passage in Mr. Pope's Essay on Criticism, that all auxiliary Verbs are mere Expletives.
From Letters Concerning Poetical Translations And Virgil's and Milton's Arts of Verse, &c. by Benson, William
