epigram
Example Sentences
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The epigrams she presents at the beginning are weird.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025
Among Burke's epigrams are such copybook maxims as "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
From Salon • Jul. 1, 2023
In this one, he basically stands around indulging a series of cosmic snit fits, laying waste to the digitally confected scenery and uttering tedious epigrams about time, recurrence and the apocalypse.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2023
A master of epigrams as well as of movies, Mr. Godard once observed, “A film consists of a beginning, a middle and an end, though not necessarily in that order.”
From New York Times • Sep. 13, 2022
I vacuumed books for epigrams, scraps of information, ideas, themes—anything to fill the hollow within me and make me feel educated.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
Vocabulary lists containing epigram
The Great Gatsby
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Write On!: Graph and Gram
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"The Great Gatsby," Chapter 1 Vocabulary
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