How to Use dictum in a Sentence

dictum

noun

• So there wasn’t a shootaround dictum or pregame speech.
  — Jim Owczarski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Apr. 2022
• Follow this simple dictum and the Post will defend you to the death.
  — Sadie Stein, Town & Country, 16 Jan. 2018
• And while that's gospel for US users, there's some nuance to that dictum across the Atlantic.
  — Kate Cox, Ars Technica, 24 Sep. 2019
• The first serves as a useful counterpart to the M.F.A.’s first dictum.
  — Hermione Hoby, The New Yorker, 3 July 2019
• No one lives more by the dictum of showing, not telling, than Wiseman.
  — Jake Coyle, Star Tribune, 1 Oct. 2020
• Yet the fast spread of covid-19 reveals that the world largely ignored that wise dictum.
  — The Economist, 10 June 2020
• The dictum had always been, Si vis pacem, para bellum . . .
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 9 Feb. 2022
• Hanging on the wall behind where Wiggins was seated on a stool was the class dictum.
  — Mará Rose Williams, kansascity.com, 15 May 2017
• This is what Keats means by his famous dictum that axioms must be tested on the pulse.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 1 Jan. 2023
• Butler aced the Wooden dictum: be quick, but don’t hurry.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2023
• The cafeteria crowds would look familiar at any smartphone-era high school, and the dictum to wear pink on Wednesdays still plays.
  — Adrienne Wichard-Edds, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Dec. 2017
• One response is to look back at the Holocaust as in the past and invoke the Jewish dictum of zachor-zachor means to remember.
  — Patricia Dillon, Houston Chronicle, 23 Feb. 2018
• Mr Selmayr abides by Oscar Wilde’s dictum that the only thing worse than being talked about is the opposite.
  — The Economist, 15 Mar. 2018
• This dictum was coined by the French philosopher René Descartes in demonstrating his existence.
  — Cyrus Hadavi, Forbes, 5 May 2021
• His dictum applies to any number of angling maneuvers, including the matter of adding a piece of worm to a wet fly.
  — Will Ryan, Field & Stream, 5 July 2023
• However, this dictum does not require schools to open as some may not have the resources necessary.
  — Winston Gieseke, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2020
• This straightforward Friedman dictum is certainly borne out by the data available to us over the past two years.
  — Edwin T. Burton, National Review, 8 Feb. 2022
• Fast ten, slow twenty is a dictum that breeds recklessness in damn near every other aspect of our lives.
  — Mitchell S. Jackson, Harper's magazine, 10 Feb. 2019
• The dictum, sent in the earlier months of the US' outbreak, raises questions over whether safety protocols within the White House have improved since then.
  — Angela Dewan, CNN, 2 Oct. 2020
• Because there’s a famous dictum that my acting teacher always taught me.
  — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 26 Mar. 2021
• So too did corn and wheat fields, the result of Mao’s dictum to grow grain everywhere, along with a hundred pseudo-scientific schemes for better yields.
  — Michael Holtz, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 June 2017
• This is the dictum that lower tax rates are a panacea for all economic problems and even necessary when (as anybody can see from this stock market) there aren’t many problems in the first place.
  — Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, 3 Nov. 2017
• One of Wright’s nearly lifelong dictums was that his buildings were like shrubs and trees, growing upward, in effect, from the inside out, emerging spanking-wet and blinking their eyes to the world.
  — Paul Hendrickson, Smithsonian, 20 Nov. 2019
• The past, according to a famous American dictum, is never dead.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2023
• For all the stunts and brash marketing, the franchise has found a crucial ingredient that traces to Barnum’s dictum about treating customers well.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2022
• The Taliban dictum reversed an announcement — demanded by and promised to donor countries — just days earlier that all schools for girls would be open.
  — Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2022
• Because the cylinder pushes the air to one side, the air must in turn push the cylinder the opposite way, thanks to Isaac New-ton’s dictum that every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
  — Katherine Kornei, Science | AAAS, 6 Sep. 2017
• That dictum especially applied to late-night drinks with friends and emails to family members.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 30 Mar. 2023
• Some might argue, even, that the religious dictum endorses the effort to fortify one's house.
  — Meghan O'Gieblyn, Wired, 7 Feb. 2022
• ByteDance, like any other Chinese company, is subject to laws that compel extreme compliance with the interests and dictums of the state.
  — Richard Galant, CNN, 26 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 23 Jul 2024