elision

How To Use elision In A Sentence

• The obscurity of the pleading which is, if I may so with respect to the drafter of it, exceedingly clever, because the pleading is in terms always of a duty of care to do something and it is there the elision of two very separate ideas.
• His work thus has the tendency to reproduce the elisions of the religious and political polemics of the sixteenth century while seeking to explain them.
• Pollock, the veteran actor Ed Harris's directorial debut, is a mass-audience movie, not a peer-reviewed treatise, and so it's not fair to pick at historical inaccuracies or elisions.
• He has made substantial elisions and revisions to the facts for the sake of the story's flow.
• Unlike (effortless elision here) the surface of the new-fashioned loathsome double-decker conductorless buses.
• I also thought I had gleaned the ghost of a Southern accent, a fraction of elision smudging the edge of breath dividing "you" and "all. THE SEASON OF LILLIAN DAWES
• As for _t'one_ and _t'other_, they should be _'tone_ and _'tother_, being elisions for _that one_ and _that other_, relics of the Anglo-Saxon declinable definite article, still used in Frisic. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859
• This is hardly the place to rehearse the errors and elisions in his original article, or the way it allows its thesis like a steamroller to flatten the facts.
• Still others prefer a middle option that keeps the apostrophe for omission and elision but drops it for plurality and possession.
• Across Europe, among the sceptics and the doubters and the out-and-out protesters, a pernicious process of elision is taking place.