RHETORICAL in a Sentence
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16 example sentences for RHETORICAL, such as:
1. Her speech was just empty rhetoric.
2. The writer showed great rhetorical skill.
3. It was exactly this type of misleading rhetoric that led us into a misguided war.
4. If his rhetoric is any indication, the president appears to be headed in the right direction.
5. Thomas Carlyle , notwithstanding his tedious rhetoric, is a master of the sublime in prose style.
2. The writer showed great rhetorical skill.
3. It was exactly this type of misleading rhetoric that led us into a misguided war.
4. If his rhetoric is any indication, the president appears to be headed in the right direction.
5. Thomas Carlyle , notwithstanding his tedious rhetoric, is a master of the sublime in prose style.
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Meanings and Examples of RHETORICAL
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rhetorical
a. relating to skill of using language effectively and persuasively; insincere in language
Classic Sentence:
1 Suddenly, on the barrow, there mingled with all this wild rhetoric of night a sound which modulated so naturally into the rest that its beginning and ending were hardly to be distinguished.
2 Pickering: this chap has a certain natural gift of rhetoric.
3 Thunder on in rhetoric, thy wonted way: accuse thou me of fear, Drances, since thine hand hath heaped so many Teucrians in slaughter, and thy glorious trophies dot the fields.
Example Sentence:
1 These arguments may have been used as a rhetorical device to argue for a perpetuation of a United Nations role.
2 Republican Congressional leaders have launched a rhetorical assault against the Clinton proposal this week.
3 The writer showed great rhetorical skill.
4 To win his audience; the speaker used every rhetorical trick in the book.
5 Histories make men wise ; poems witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep ; moral grave ; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
6 How far the president will be able to translate his campaign rhetoric into action remains to be seen.
7 As the police visibly tighten the noose around the mansion, the guerrillas respond with rhetoric and warning bursts of gunfire.
8 Her speech was just empty rhetoric.
9 Thomas Carlyle , notwithstanding his tedious rhetoric, is a master of the sublime in prose style.
10 It was exactly this type of misleading rhetoric that led us into a misguided war.
11 If his rhetoric is any indication, the president appears to be headed in the right direction.
12 Lexy was a master of polemical rhetoric; she should have worn a T-shirt with the slogan "Born to Debate.".
13 His stilted rhetoric did not impress the college audience; they were immune to bombastic utterances.