ADVERB
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orally
I heard it viva voce -
by spoken rather than written means
these stories were transmitted by word of mouth
How To Use by word of mouth In A Sentence
- A life of poverty, tradition and religious dread suffuses songs steeped in misery and learnt by word of mouth.
- The evolutional orders,206 by which greater depth or shallowness is given to the battle line, are given by word of mouth by the enomotarch (or commander of the section), who plays the part of the herald, and they cannot be mistaken. The Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians
- No stone to be left unturned, and a report by word of mouth brought back by three o'clock at the latest. THE FIVE MILLION DOLLAR PRINCE
- The story has been passed down by word of mouth.
- News of what scholars call the most famous scandal of 12 th century France spread through contemporary Europe by word of mouth, in poetry, and in the songs of troubadours.
- Most manuscripts postdate the stories which have circulated by word of mouth for centuries.
- Calling this match became something of a lottery and it was only by word of mouth yesterday that we learned that wing Colin Shaw had got the third try, although his second was an absolute corker and totally unmissable.
- When we started to promote the course, recruitment snowballed by word of mouth.
- He received the news by word of mouth.
- So the story passed by word of mouth, and it wasn't written down or reported, and some people said that Harry had put it all behind him. VAPOR TRAIL