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  1. a short pithy instructive saying

How To Use apothegm In A Sentence

  • That should give you the flavor of this very enjoyable book; but I can't resist adding a couple of the apothegms that stood out to me.
  • No one, right or left, delivers the required apothegmatic commentary on the world with as much glee or effectiveness as Coulter. Feminist blogs in english » 2005 » April
  • The knight, desirous of knowing the cause that prompted Timothy to apothegmatise in this manner, looked through the grate, and perceived the squire fairly set in the stocks, surrounded by a mob of people. The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves
  • There is an apothegm of his, from 1959, that goes, ‘What's left after what one isn't is taken away is what one is.’
  • It was shown in the last paper that the political apothegm there examined does not require that the legislative, executive, and judiciary departments should be wholly unconnected with each other.
  • Just remember the apothegm that a government that is big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take it all away. Never Yet Melted
  • They are terse, allusive, disconnected, apothegmatic and hard to follow.
  • You belong where the witty apothegms of Lords, the silly moralities of matrons, the blinding high of opium, and the beauty of visual arts mingle to form one convoluted world.
  • In reading the above sentence, a curious apothegm of an old weather- beaten Dutch navigator come.
  • The Burkean apothegm mentioned earlier in the article is very fitting here. The Dangers of Architectural Positivism
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