Sample Sentences forrhetoric (editor-reviewed)
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She has convincing rhetoric, but she makes bad decisions.rhetoric = use of words to make a point
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She disliked his policies and his rhetoric.rhetoric = way of using words to make a point
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Don't be fooled by her empty rhetoric.rhetoric = use of words to make a point (in this case implying that the words may sound good, but are lacking in substance)
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"What does our Führer say?" He answered his own rhetoric. "We must take what is rightfully ours!" (source)rhetoric = question asked to make a point
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In the impressionable way of sons, I did not consider this rhetorically; I took him at his word. (source)rhetorically = as words used for effect
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But as to these Americans, you must tell them to leave at once, that there has been a terrible mistake, that the blessed Van Houten was making a rhetorical offer to meet, not an actual one, that such offers must be read symbolically. (source)rhetorical = relating to the use of words to make a point
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What you're supposed to do in most freshman-rhetoric courses is to read a little essay or short story, discuss how the writer has done certain little things to achieve certain little effects, and then have the students write an imitative little essay or short story to see if they can do the same little things. (source)rhetoric = study of the technique and rules for using language effectively -- especially to persuade
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Jaimie asked his friends in turn, with a rhetorical air.† (source)
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Finny asked us, rhetorically.† (source)
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And this is the reason why my three accusers, Meletus and Anytus and Lycon, have set upon me; Meletus, who has a quarrel with me on behalf of the poets; Anytus, on behalf of the craftsmen and politicians; Lycon, on behalf of the rhetoricians: and as I said at the beginning, I cannot expect to get rid of such a mass of calumny all in a moment.† (source)
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On the day when the rhetorician Gymnastoras left his prison, bearing in his body many dilemmas and numerous syllogisms which had struck in, he halted in front of the first tree which he came to, harangued it and made very great efforts to convince it.† (source)
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Pablo said to him seriously and Robert Jordan saw how unrhetorical was the question.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unrhetorical means not and reverses the meaning of rhetorical. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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PLAYER: It's about a King and Queen.... GUIL: Escapism! What else? PLAYER: Blood GUIL: -Love and rhetoric. (source)rhetoric = the use of words to make a point
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I didn't have the energy to actually do that, so I took the imperative as rhetorical.† (source)
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Rhetorically.† (source)
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The sophists and rhetoricians who thronged the public resorts of Rome, almost monopolizing the business of teaching her patrician youth, might have approved these sayings of Messala, for they were all in the popular vein; to the young Jew, however, they were new, and unlike the solemn style of discourse and conversation to which he was accustomed.† (source)
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