DICTATION in a Sentence

Learn DICTATION from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
89 example sentences for DICTATION, such as:
1. I delight in taking down from dictation.
2. The teacher dictated to the whole class.
3. She won't allow herself to be dictated to.
4. The teacher dictated a passage to the class.
5. Dealing with this dictator wasn't an option.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of DICTATION
dictation
 n.  speech intended for reproduction in writing
 n.  an authoritative direction or instruction to do something
Classic Sentence: (58 in 4 pages)
1  Of course my statement must be taken cum grano, since I am writing from the dictation of a clerk of the Russian consul, who kindly translated for me, time being short.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
2  I delight in taking down from dictation.
The Importance of Being Earnest By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In SECOND ACT
3  But Duncan, who, in deference to the other's skill and services, had hitherto submitted somewhat implicitly to his dictation, now assumed the superior, with a manner that was not easily resisted.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 22
4  His work consisted in writing all the morning to the professor's dictation, and he usually spent the evening in hunting up references and passages which bore upon the next day's work.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ
5  After giving these and other commands he returned to his tent, and the dispositions for the battle were written down from his dictation.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXVII
6  And more particularly they accused the dictator himself.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V.
7  But this displeasing the senate, and the matter appearing to them grave and dangerous, they appointed a dictator to inquire into it, and to restrain the attacks of Manlius.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII.
8  Whereupon the dictator ordered him to prison.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII.
9  Whereupon the Romans, resorting to a method usual with them in seasons of peril, appointed a dictator; that is, gave power to one man to decide without advice, and carry out his resolves without appeal.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXXIII.
10  In the second place, the dictator was not created for life, but for a fixed term, and only to meet the emergency for which he was appointed.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXXIV.
11  To sum up, therefore, I say that those republics which cannot in sudden emergencies resort either to a dictator or to some similar authority, will, when the danger is serious, always be undone.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXXIV.
12  Nevertheless, in the later days of the republic the Romans were wont to entrust this power to a consul instead of to a dictator, using the formula, Videat CONSUL ne quid respublica detrimenti capiat.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXXIV.
13  For when a dictator was appointed there still remained the tribunes, the consuls, and the senate, all of them invested with authority of which the dictator could not deprive them.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXXV
14  His army being thereby endangered, the senate judged it expedient to send Papirius Cursor as dictator to supply his place.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XLVII.
15  Yes, their supreme lord and dictator was there, though hitherto unseen by any eyes not permitted to penetrate into the now sacred retreat of the cabin.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 28. Ahab.
Example Sentence: (31 in 3 pages)
1  There were no secretaries available to take dictation.
2  We must frustrate this dictator's plan to seize control of the government.
3  Upon the demise of the dictator, a bitter dispute about succession to power developed.
4  The dictator decreed that his birthday would be a public holiday.
5  His fulsome praise of the dictator revolted his listeners.
6  As soon as he learned of its existence, the dictator ordered the execution of all of the members of the junta.
7  There was nobody strong enough to lead an effective countervailing force against the dictator.
8  The former dictator still keeps a tight grip on power.
9  For years now, the people have been oppressed by a ruthless dictator.
10  Dealing with this dictator wasn't an option.
11  In arming the dictator, the US was creating a Frankenstein who would threaten their influence in the region.
12  She won't allow herself to be dictated to.
13  The teacher dictated a passage to the class.
14  The teacher dictated to the whole class.
15  The approach to development is dictated by paperwork requirements as opposed to the needs and opportunities which actually exist.