SENTENTIOUS in a Sentence
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Example sentences for SENTENTIOUS, such as:
1. Another long and deliberate pause succeeded these sententious questions and ready replies.
2. After reading so many redundant speeches, I find his sententious style particularly pleasing.
2. After reading so many redundant speeches, I find his sententious style particularly pleasing.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of SENTENTIOUS
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sententious
a. concise and full of meaning; using as few words as possible
Classic Sentence:
1 Another long and deliberate pause succeeded these sententious questions and ready replies.
2 "There was many a good man went to the penny-a-week school with a sod of turf under his oxter," said Mr. Kernan sententiously.
3 'I am not such a fool as I look, quoth Plato to his disciples,' he said sententiously, emptied his glass with great resolution, and we rose.
4 My boy," said Caderousse sententiously, "one can talk while eating.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context Highlight In Chapter 81. The Room of the Retired Baker.
Context Highlight In Chapter 81. The Room of the Retired Baker.
5 "I guess they're worth more to you than to me, Miss, but the poor has got to live as well as the rich," she observed sententiously.
6 "To a great mind, nothing is little," remarked Holmes, sententiously.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
7 "We must use, and not abuse," said Aramis, sententiously.
Example Sentence:
1 After reading so many redundant speeches, I find his sententious style particularly pleasing.