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Example sentences for "more correct"

  • It is very much harder, however, to hit upwards with a short swing, or perhaps it would be more correct to say that there is a much greater tendency to hit the ball before the club head has got to the lowest point in its swing.

  • It may be more correct to write "the Shaibani Khan" and perhaps even "the Shaibani.

  • It may be more correct to write Kah-mard, as the Hai.

  • It may be more correct to write Lamghanat, since the first syllable may be lam, fort.

  • We do not mean to discuss, in this place, the question, whether the views of Mr. Pitt or those of Mr. Fox respecting the regency were the more correct.

  • When it is said that Virgil, though he had less genius than Homer, was a more correct writer, what sense is attached to the word correctness?

  • Surely we should answer, it is both finer and more correct; and it is finer because it is more correct.

  • The rite or Sacrament by which an Order is conferred is strictly called Ordination, and hence it is more correct to speak of the Sacrament of Ordination than of the Sacrament of Orders.

  • They were expressive, and he talked to Dr Tom with them, or, to be more correct, through them, in a most interesting way.

  • He knew every inch of the road, or, to be more correct, the track, and no man could frighten a box-seat passenger out of his senses better than Ned.

  • From thence he passed to Rome, and acquired a more correct style of design, and adopted the manner of Raffaello, in which style he painted the S.

  • If any thing be wanting in it, it is perhaps a more correct observance of the perspective.

  • But he was then writing to his uncle; and therefore made use of his native dialect, as is still done even in the public acts in Venice; though he might be master of, and might use on proper occasions, a more correct language.

  • It is more correct to say that time is in God.

  • It is more correct to say that space is in God.

  • The common mind receives a more correct idea of unfamiliar facts when these are narrated in phenomenal language and in summary form than when they are described in the abstract terms and in the exact detail of science.

  • A more correct description in such cases would be passant "respecting" or "regarding" each other.

  • A more correct mode of indicating what is meant by this term would be to say that God is love, and that love is even His essence.

  • It would be more correct to say that nothing at all has happened.

  • It may be a result of this animus that he connects it with the discreditable Vajjian schism and the Chinese tradition may be more correct.

  • But were our knowledge less one-sided, we might see that it would be more correct to describe Indian religion as Dravidian religion stimulated and modified by the ideas of Aryan invaders.

  • When due payment had been given and taken, or perhaps it would be more correct to say taken and given, Redgrave put his finger on one of the buttons.

  • But it would be more correct to describe it as a struggle between the Bourgeois and the Socialist Democracies.

  • The last step forward had brought me into still deeper water, and my strength seemed exhausted--perhaps it would be more correct to say that to hold the pole in position and keep myself on my feet demanded as much force as I ever had.

  • If it were a singular instance I should not think it worth relating, but it is not; it would be more correct to say it is the general rule.

  • I had yet scarcely noticed anything on land, but we saw now at a glance that the town was very small, or perhaps it would be more correct to say that the town was large but thinly inhabited.

  • In this sense, it would be more correct to place the end of life in our woe than in our welfare.

  • Thus there was needed here a wider range of sight, a more accurate comprehension, a more correct distinction of things in the external world, in all their circumstances and relations.

  • I fancy Diana herself was sorry, so far as such a frivolous little American could be sorry for anything,--perhaps, however it would be more correct to say that she was frightened.

  • Or, to be more correct, it will not actually perish, but will simply change.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "more correct" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    more complex; more curious; more death; more direct; more extended; more extensive; more feet; more gently; more grace; more instances; more interesting; more literally; more long; more necessary; more open; more particularly; more persons; more power; more probable; more profitable; more quickly; more serious; more times; more valuable; more water; roast beef