Sentence examples for dictum as from inspiring English sources

They follow a dictum as old as the association itself: beware of N.C.A.A. committees bearing gifts.

Whitehead was writing about mathematics, but technology, with its reliance on formula and algorithms, easily fits his dictum as well.

Banksy has always had a fatalistic streak: in one of his books, a pair of lovebirds is juxtaposed with the dictum "As soon as you meet someone, you know the reason you will leave them".

The prescriptions as statim, pro re nata and ut dictum as well as outliers with dosages greater or less than 1.5 interquartile ranges were excluded from analysis.

I was reminded of Vernon's dictum as Jay caressed the deck, as gently as if it were a newly hatched chick.

It was Charles Lyell (1832) who argued for the relevance of organismic distributional information to the fields of biology and geology, and he invoked the famous dictum "As in space, so in time".

And it pre-empted charges of intrusive voyeurism by appropriating the dictum "You're as sick as your secrets".

The word of caution sounded by a village elder – "There is prodigious danger in the seeking of loose spirits" – has never sounded more apposite; and it is notable that Deputy Governor Danforth's justification for his kangaroo court ("No man who is pure of heart may need a lawyer here") echoes the NSA dictum that, as long as you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.

Self, renowned for his own distinctive use of the more obscure words in the language, particularly has in his sights Orwell's famous rules for writing plain English, which include such much repeated dictums as "Never use a long word where a short one will do".

Eddington's dictum is not as radical as it might sound.

It's hard work being so hip – witness Kate Moss and her dictum, "nothing tastes as good as skinny feels".