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 calories are the biggest count on the nutrition label, and all of the dictums from the USDA over the last few decades, many people feel very misguided to cut fat, to not worry about carbs.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 May 2024
• 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
• Another important principle, then, revives Hamilton’s dictum that the means must be proportioned to the mischief.
  — Hal Brands, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024