Sentence examples for by dictation from inspiring English sources

That "indirect approach" might more properly be termed a policy of leading by consensus rather than by dictation.

Stott's books, numbering over 50, all written by dictation or in longhand, were translated into a total of 67 languages.

Silas keeps a court biographer at his side who writes the first draft of history by dictation.

In the weeks after surgery, stymied by dictation software and limited in what I could do, I spent a lot of time slowly wandering around New York City.

Sometimes – for example in Crow or Cave Birds – the language comes out tensed and singing, as if by dictation from the underworld.

In the last years of his life, when he began writing his autobiography, Twain decided to do it mostly by dictation.

She typed his manuscripts and learned shorthand so as to be able to help him further by taking dictation.

She began in l944, by taking dictation, and in a profound sense, she is still doing so.

She realizes, too, that he has a great desire to write again, and she helps him at first by taking dictation — a hugely difficult task.

An episode of "Cheers" from 1990 was prophetic: in it, Ted Danson's character, Sam Malone, who does not know how to play chess, wins a wager match by taking dictation from a computer program.

Up until the recent ascendance of Autocorrect, my digital correspondents were perplexed by my dictation software's often charming and sometimes embarrassing errors, which are very similar to Autocorrect's linguistic gaffes.