EPIGRAM in a Sentence
Learn EPIGRAM 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.
Example sentences for EPIGRAM, such as:
1. Bilibin saved up his epigrams to produce them in Countess Bezukhova's presence.
2. In the society in which she lived such plain statements produced the effect of the wittiest epigram.
2. In the society in which she lived such plain statements produced the effect of the wittiest epigram.
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Meanings and Examples of EPIGRAM
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epigram
n. witty thought or saying, usually short; short, witty poem expressing a single thought or observation
Classic Sentence:
1 In the society in which she lived such plain statements produced the effect of the wittiest epigram.
2 We have been told what happens when a woman deliberates; and the epigram is not always terminable with woman, provided that one be in the case, and that a fair one.
3 Bilibin saved up his epigrams to produce them in Countess Bezukhova's presence.
Example Sentence:
1 The disadvantage of the epigram is the temptation it affords to good people to explain it to the others who are assumed to be too obtuse to comprehend it alone.