Sample Sentences foromission (editor-reviewed)
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She did not say something that wasn't true. Her lie was a lie of omission.omission = leaving something out that should have been included
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She looked for an omission in the list of planned expenses.omission = missing item
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We carry errors and omissions insurance.omissions = mistakes resulting from neglect
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Jack had meant to leave him in doubt, as an assertion of power; but Piggy by advertising his omission made more cruelty necessary. (source)omission = being left out
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"Finished," he said, speaking with that omission of syntax stupid people employ when talking to drunken people or foreigners. (source)omission = leaving out (something that should have been included)
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Secrets lie through omission just like shame lies through secrecy.† (source)
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Even Lon was ignored, and though both of them noticed the omission, neither mentioned it.† (source)
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Every other day these omissions are easy—easier, at least—to ignore.† (source)
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Except by omission, she didn't even have to lie.† (source)
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But Mobutu was just getting organized in '61, and still given to peculiar omissions.† (source)
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Instead, I just made a mental note of each omission, and as Mr. Ciders began to recount the circumstances of Halliday's childhood, I once again tried to glean whatever secrets I could from the strange way Halliday had lived his life, and from the odd clues about himself he'd chosen to leave behind.† (source)
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'My response is being written with ink and paper in the glorious tradition of our ancestors and then transcribed by Ms. Vliegenthart into a series of 1s and 0s to travel through the insipid web which has lately ensnared our species, so I apologize for any errors or omissions that may result.† (source)
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I'm a big fan of the lie of omission.† (source)
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It was an ambitious subject for an amateur—an oval basin with an island of sculptured rocks at its center; on the rocks grew, in stone, formal tropical vegetation and wild English fern in its natural fronds; through them ran a dozen streams that counterfeited springs, and round them sported fantastic tropical animals, camels and camelopards and an ebullient lion, all vomiting water; on the rocks, to the height of the pediment, stood an Egyptian obelisk of red sandstone—but, by some odd chance, for the thing was far beyond me, I brought it off and, by judicious omissions and some stylish tricks, produced a very passable echo of Piranesi.† (source)
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A lie of omission is still a lie.† (source)
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I hope readers will forgive any omissions.† (source)
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