Sentence examples for the locution from inspiring English sources
noun
A phrase or expression connected to an individual or a group of individuals through repeated usage.
- The television show host is widely recognized for his all-too-common locutions.
The locution is reasonably telling.
Trump himself was wary of the locution at first.
This used the locution in a rare positive sense, as an activity to be encouraged.
The locution a "gene for X" is, in most cases, a verbal sloppiness that leads only to false expectations.
Yet as used online, the locution usually refers to an experience not shared between the writer and the reader.
Though a British outfit named Logica claims coinage in 1997, the locution is now coming on stream.
Lorelai is cool about it, too, deploying the locutions and demeanor of a 17-year-old.
Just how vulnerable is made plain in the locutions of property brokers.
Like L. E. Sissman, his near-exact contemporary, Snodgrass embraces the locutions of commerce and contract.
For subsequent drafts of his script, he added, he is thinking of calling in a linguist or native Russian speakers for advice about getting the locutions right.
But the locutions in "Nature Girl" can also be as tame as its choice of weaponry, which owes much to the previous Hiaasen arsenal.
