Wondering how to use Sententious in a sentence? Below are 2 example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as pretentious or pithy.
Sententious in a sentence
Sententious meaning
- Using as few words as possible; pithy and concise.
- Tending to use aphorisms or maxims; especially, to such an extent as to engage in trite moralizing, even self-righteously so.
- Full of meaning.
Synonyms of Sententious
Using Sententious
- The main meaning on this page is: Using as few words as possible; pithy and concise. | Tending to use aphorisms or maxims; especially, to such an extent as to engage in trite moralizing, even self-righteously so. | Full of meaning.
- Useful related words include: pretentious, pithy, concise.
Context around Sententious
- Average sentence length in these examples: 31.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 2 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 2 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Sententious
- In this selection, "sententious" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 31.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, sage and counsel stand out and add context to how "sententious" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include frank s sententious sage smudging and type of sententious counsel that. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "sententious" sits close to words such as aabc, aacr and aacsb, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with sententious
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Only the vivid image of the warped planks keeps this remark from being the type of sententious counsel that Polonius might have given his son. (25 words)
Cherry-picking some of the worst examples imaginable — the play also features Elle Fanning as Frank’s sententious, sage-smudging fiancée and Graham Campbell as Toni’s drug-dealing son — Jacobs-Jenkins makes a convincing if despairing case. (38 words)
Cherry-picking some of the worst examples imaginable — the play also features Elle Fanning as Frank’s sententious, sage-smudging fiancée and Graham Campbell as Toni’s drug-dealing son — Jacobs-Jenkins makes a convincing if despairing case. (38 words)
Only the vivid image of the warped planks keeps this remark from being the type of sententious counsel that Polonius might have given his son. (25 words)
Example sentences (2)
Cherry-picking some of the worst examples imaginable — the play also features Elle Fanning as Frank’s sententious, sage-smudging fiancée and Graham Campbell as Toni’s drug-dealing son — Jacobs-Jenkins makes a convincing if despairing case.
Only the vivid image of the warped planks keeps this remark from being the type of sententious counsel that Polonius might have given his son.