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Example sentences for "pleonasm"

Lexicographically close words:
plentifulness; plentitude; plenty; plenum; plenus; pleonastic; pleraque; plerique; plerisque; pleroma
  1. Pleonasm is when a word more is added than is absolutely necessary to express the sense.

  2. These are instances of pleonasm in the strictest sense of the term.

  3. What is pleonasm in a single sentence is ellipsis in a double one.

  4. Pleonasm can take place with adjectives only in the expression of the degrees of comparison.

  5. What is pleonasm in a single sentence, is ellipsis in a double one.

  6. The fact of the word he neither qualifying nor explaining the word king, distinguishes pleonasm from apposition.

  7. And this pleonasm really occurs-- The more serener spirit.

  8. Among the figures Pleonasm is sometimes used for the sake of the metre; as in (I.

  9. But the above examples are arranged either by Pleonasm or by some such like artifice.


    10. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pleonasm" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abundance; amplitude; circumlocution; duplication; embellishment; expletive; extravagance; exuberance; fat; fertility; filling; fluency; frill; frippery; gingerbread; gush; gushing; luxury; metaphor; overflow; overlap; padding; prodigality; productivity; profusion; prolixity; redundancy; reiteration; roundabout; simile; speech; stammering; stuttering; superabundance; superfluity; tautology; tirade; verbiage; verbosity