Sample Sentences forcircumlocution (auto-selected)
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It was a throwback to that same boring circumlocution you used both on the bench and in the classroom!† (source)
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Circumlocution is his revolution.† (source)
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"Sir," said Madame de Saint-Meran, without using any circumlocution, and as if fearing she had no time to lose, "you wrote to me concerning the marriage of this child?"† (source)
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Mr. Losberne, who appeared desirous of gaining time, recounted them at great length, and with much circumlocution.† (source)
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Too much furniture, too much room, too much emotional refinement, too many circumlocutions.† (source)
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She lowered her eyes, tapping out the letter, not for a moment fazed by the stark information which she knew lay embalmed beneath Hoss's final circumlocutions: "Special Action,"† (source)
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He had considered coming to the same conclusion, but not before a long and diplomatic circumlocution.† (source)
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When it came to the forms of address, he would substitute the oddest circumlocutions—that is, if he could not slur over them entirely.† (source)
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Once there I performed my small ritual — the circumlocution of the monument, the reading of the names.† (source)
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I am so deeply ashamed now to say that I was embarrassed to acknowledge it in front of the others and used circumlocutions.† (source)
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Direct, without game, not even nickel phrases of circumlocution.† (source)
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Although I do not mean to assert that it is usually the practice of renowned and learned sages, to shorten the road to any great conclusion (their course indeed being rather to lengthen the distance, by various circumlocutions and discursive staggerings, like unto those in which drunken men under the pressure of a too mighty flow of ideas, are prone to indulge); still, I do mean to say, and do say distinctly, that it is the invariable practice of many mighty philosophers, in carrying out their theories, to evince great wisdom and foresight in providing against every possible contingency which can be supposed at all likely to affect themselves.† (source)
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Servants of God, and watchers of the temple, I am here to inform you, without circumlocution: The Archbishop is in England, and is close outside the city.† (source)
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I gave up and put the matter baldly; I was much too tired for delicacy or circumlocutions.† (source)
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She had a good honest glance and used no circumlocution.† (source)
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I had made use of many circumlocutions in describing to him the nature of the several crimes for which most of our crew had been forced to fly their country.† (source)
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