Appearance
Use device theme  
Dark theme
Light theme

How to use circumlocutory in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word circumlocutory? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
Breakfast rooms across India display a vista of glazed eyes ploughing wearily through the turgid, circumlocutory language of the morning papers.
After 20 years in the Senate, he has developed a meandering, circumlocutory speaking style.
Other television station announcers had been less circumlocutory in declaring the result.
Joe's conversational exchanges with the convalescent Pip are hilariously circumlocutory.
Circumnavigators circumstantiate their comings and goings in a magazine, The Log, which does some things in a circumlocutory way.
I have now done some more research and found references dating as far back as the 16th century to crinkum crankum twisting country lanes, streams, circumlocutory speakers and even minds.
He expresses simple ideas in weird, circumlocutory ways, showing special fondness for multiple negatives.
However circumlocutory, it was enough for India's environment minister, Jairam Ramesh, to take umbrage.
With authors awarding Jay Gatsby honors as most famous fictional individual, journalists jokingly brought up Wright's circumlocutory stylings.
But it was a strange, circumlocutory route that had taken him there.
Examples from Classical Literature
Certainly I was born under Cancer, and all my movements are circumlocutory, sideways, and crab-like.
Stammering becomes more eloquent than oratory, a child's impulsiveness wiser than circumlocutory experience.
To come to the point, without any circumlocutory delay, I am a young man with aspirations far above my station in life.
Certainly I was born under the Cancer, and all my movements are circumlocutory, sideways, and crab-like.
The practice thus forced upon one in employing a Chinese servant is useful in preventing a circumlocutory habit of speech.
Another lot sneered at this circumlocutory and unsatisfactory process of argument.
Herbert has a circumlocutory manner over the phone which irritates me.
Find more words!
Use * for blank tiles (max 2) Advanced Search Advanced Search
Use * for blank spaces Advanced Search
Advanced Word Finder

See Also

Nearby Words
14-letter Words Starting With
Find Sentences
go
Word Tools Finders & Helpers Apps More Synonyms
Copyright WordHippo © 2024