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How to use the word verbiage in a Sentence?

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He loved florid verbiage and jaw-jaw until he cuts himself on Occam's razor.

Ilze Falb

added by Svin
7 years ago

It was an honest error. I think they just pulled the verbiage from it and posted it on the tweet, and when there was a reaction to it, there’s no cover up, Councilman Kenny Glavan told WLOX-TV. You know, we’re all looking at it and saying, ‘ Hey, we need to change it.'.

Mayor Andrew Gilich

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I don't know if good earnings even get rewarded if it's right around when you see whatever verbiage comes out of the convention.

Teresa McRoberts

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Trump’s verbiage does not sound compassionate, i don’t hold him up as a paragon of Christian virtue, but I’m not looking for that in a candidate. I’m looking for someone who is prudent and can make good political decisions.

William Paul

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

People can say whatever they want, and I think China has been saying a lot of things for the past couple of decades, you need to ask yourself what, from a practical perspective, is really happening. We need to see the proof in actions, not just in verbiage.

Chief Executive Mario Longhi

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

While the verbiage sounds like this is an attempt to replace the National Assembly, it looks like it will be a body that works at a lower level to distribute resources to communes and communal councils, of course the optics of this are alarming ... (but) I doubt it will seriously impede any functions of the National Assembly.

David Smilde

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

That verbiage probably scares theater owners.

Jeff Bock

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like secret agents on a delicate mission, they must airily pass by a stinking mess with barely so much as a nod of the head, make their point of constructive criticism and continue on in calm forbearance. Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

Quentin Crisp

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The majority recognized that the Court has spent numerous pages revisiting its own cases and those of the Supreme Court and still “disagree vigorously over what is or is not patentable subject matter.” Instead, the majority urges district courts to avoid the “swamp of verbiage that is § 101 by exercising their inherent power to control the processes of litigation -Yar Chaikovsky McDermott on MySpace v. Graphon Corp

Yar Chaikovsky

added by anonymous
11 years ago

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

Paul Valery

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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