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How to use sesquipedalian in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word sesquipedalian? Here are some examples.

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This isn't some pretentious, sesquipedalian piece of drivel, but a mad, inspired, fun must-read.
Helplessly, he would manipulate every sesquipedalian word he encountered until he had wrung all possible combinations out of it.
Generally, the pin of sesquipedalian Angraecum is presented over a 30 centimeters length in order to contain its nectar.
I'm never really comfortable with the idea that I'm this monstrous sesquipedalian.
The work started as a monologue, a rather sesquipedalian, somewhat dithering Englishwoman's reverie about Kabul based on a 1965 guidebook to that city.
Our dinner guest was so sesquipedalian that no one could understand what he said.
Having grown up with a crush on William F. Buckley Jr. for his sesquipedalian facility, it's hard for me to watch the right wing of the G. O. P. revel in anti-intellectualism and anti-science cant.
The film looks longingly toward a time when sesquipedalian patricians such as Buckley and Vidal could even be considered for a network's mainstream, prime-time broadcast.
It will only facilitate the acquirement of a sesquipedalian diction, having the polysyllabicism without the precision of Johnson.
Examples from Classical Literature
He was indebted to a ruse of Aunt Margaret for his historic and sesquipedalian name.
He said that when it took a whole basketful of sesquipedalian adjectives to whoop up a thing of beauty, it was time for suspicion.
That colored orator and model letter-writer must look to his sesquipedalian fame.
The gentlemen with this sesquipedalian title control the railways or portions of railways in their own circles.
What a sesquipedalian terminology it is with which they bewilder the lay mind and overpower the student!
Fact was, he had monologued it in his most sesquipedalian phraseology.
D'Artagnan recoiled, as though the sesquipedalian syllables had knocked the breath out of his body.
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