Ex turpi causâ non oritur actio, it is sententiously said; for there is much dormitative virtue in a Latin maxim.
That doesn’t fit in my pipe,” sententiously observed Hinkee Dee, blowing out a cloud of smoke.
These two different characters may be sententiouslyexpressed as availability and convertibility.
Sam accompanied Sinclair to his door, and then sententiously remarked: "Major, I think I'll light out and find some of the boys.
And what might be the feelings of her heart when she so sententiously told her uncle that Frank had been foolish?
It is so difficult for a young man to enumerate sententiously a principle of morality, or even an expression of ordinary good feeling, without giving himself something of a ridiculous air, without assuming something of a mock grandeur!
Long ago an enlightened Civilization rejected this relic of Barbarism, and never was one part of the argument against it put more sententiously than by Franklin.
I think that will be too much," sententiously replied Sacatripas.
Time hangs heavily when there is nothing to do," sententiously remarked Mataseis.
People always gain by talking with a man like your Excellency," sententiously replied Mataseis.
We will do nothing that will require your attention," sententiously retorts the miner.
We have no time to hear the life-story of any one," sententiously observes a man in the front seat.
Burke sententiously describes it as an “intermediate treaty which puts rebels in possession of the Law of Nations with regard to war.
This principle, thus sententiously expressed by the American lexicographer, may be found also in the judgments of courts and the writings of civilians without number.
That is what some people get for interrupting a good story," said Moto, sententiously addressing unfortunate Niani, who was rubbing his scalded feet and moaning piteously in a low tone; but the words were said as more of a hint to Selim.
You must have loved your sister very much," he sententiously remarked.
When Deerslayer ended, the Delaware took up the narrative, in turn, speakingsententiously and with grave dignity.
I no like him," sententiouslyreturned the Delaware.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sententiously" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
