locution
Example Sentences
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“I could be wrong but …” is the locution of the democratic citizen.
From Slate • Jan. 2, 2026
If the locution “hard-boiled” had not already been coined it would be necessary to coin it now to describe the characters of Dashiell Hammett’s latest detective story.
From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2021
And how about that use of "thumbing their noses"? With that aged locution, the good governor is, without doubt, speaking directly to his demographic.
From Salon • Sep. 18, 2021
It was his background as an educator that he credited for his repetitive locution style - or, as waggish journalists dubbed it, his "single transferable speech".
From BBC • Aug. 5, 2020
"She laughed till she nearly wetted the floor," I have heard a young woman in the country say, evidently using without thought a familiar locution.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women by Ellis, Havelock
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"The Pit and the Pendulum" by Edgar Allan Poe
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