SENTENTIOUS in a Sentence

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1. Another long and deliberate pause succeeded these sententious questions and ready replies.
2. After reading so many redundant speeches, I find his sententious style particularly pleasing.

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 Meanings and Examples of SENTENTIOUS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
sententious
 a.  concise and full of meaning; using as few words as possible
Classic Sentence:
1  Another long and deliberate pause succeeded these sententious questions and ready replies.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10
2  "There was many a good man went to the penny-a-week school with a sod of turf under his oxter," said Mr. Kernan sententiously.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In GRACE
3  'I am not such a fool as I look, quoth Plato to his disciples,' he said sententiously, emptied his glass with great resolution, and we rose.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In I
4  My boy," said Caderousse sententiously, "one can talk while eating.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 81. The Room of the Retired Baker.
5  "I guess they're worth more to you than to me, Miss, but the poor has got to live as well as the rich," she observed sententiously.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
6  "To a great mind, nothing is little," remarked Holmes, sententiously.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
7  "We must use, and not abuse," said Aramis, sententiously.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 9 D'ARTAGNAN SHOWS HIMSELF
Example Sentence:
1  After reading so many redundant speeches, I find his sententious style particularly pleasing.