Appearance
Use device theme  
Dark theme
Light theme

How to use dictating in a sentence

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

Sentence Examples
This in turn required every heated room to adjoin a chimney, dictating compact, boxy floor plans.
By the 1980s, the World Bank was more or less dictating the country's export and import trade through a system of tied aid.
The team is dictating the tempo and enjoying success in every aspect of its offense.
Funds fret that lawmakers are dictating divestment without specifying which companies they should sell.
Ballintubber must have regrets about not clinching this game when on top and dictating matters for two thirds of the game.
There is no inexorable logic dictating that the media must undermine the independence of the spheres of art and culture.
Real economic profits nowadays play an abysmally insignificant role toward dictating economic expansion.
A losing side sometimes falls into a trap where they tend to counter the opposition instead of dictating the game.
He sat in the dictation room off of the pediatric intensive care unit dictating the final procedure note.
Truth, justice and the American way rely on preventing any single group dictating to the rest.
Although suffering very severe pain, he spent the last days of his life dictating corrections to the proof sheets of the Dissertation.
The sea he painted, however interesting the compositional elements, was always dictating the terms.
As it is, when I'm working from home, terrestrial television is often chuntering in the corner, quietly dictating the order of the day.
The government plays a nominal role in dictating policy because it cannot monitor local fisheries or enforce fisheries regulations.
Not only is Heather dictating what the booksellers should sell you, but also what they look like as they do it.
A few self-prophesied messiahs of the Kannada film industry are dictating terms to cinegoers.
His butler bosses him, and he spends all day dictating boring letters to other bankers and presiding at soporific board meetings.
Would you like to have a lay cardiology agency dictating how much and what kind of care you could have if you suffered a heart attack?
Or, as I have done, phoned up someone, got their voice mail and started putting commas and full stops into my message because I forgot I wasn't dictating.
The men pass the time by dictating letters that will never be sent home, acting out films they will never make, and pouring imaginary drinks that will never touch their lips.
Show More Sentences
Examples from Classical Literature
You don't set up the pretension of dictating to me what I am to do with what's my own.
Yet the superscription is of his dictating, I dare say, for he is a formal wretch.
He found him dictating to his secretary, a great pile of letters before him.
To this holy rule we should inflexibly adhere when dictating the terms of peace.
She was by that time perseveringly dictating to Caddy, and Caddy was fast relapsing into the inky condition in which we had found her.
Together they make a very experienced halfback pair and we have to stop them dictating.
No sansculottes screaming for blood, no cold-minded Bolsheviks lurking in the shadows, no Ayatollahs dictating their actions in the name of God.
Elizabeth found that nothing was beneath this great lady's attention, which could furnish her with an occasion of dictating to others.
You used to write down what my father said, when he was dictating his letters to you.
Lecount laid down the Draft letter from which she had been dictating thus far, and informed Noel Vanstone by a sign that his pen might rest.
Is there any objection to my dictating a letter to Miss Winthrop?
Sorescu wrote his final volume, The Bridge, on his sickbed, often dictating to his wife, Virginia.
I am still so weak that I have to write, as you see, by dictating.
With all his healthy contempt for the spirit dictating such speeches, the atrocious allusiveness of the words had its effect on Chief Inspector Heat.
Find more words!
Use * for blank tiles (max 2) Advanced Search Advanced Search
Use * for blank spaces Advanced Search
Advanced Word Finder

See Also

Nearby Words
9-letter Words Starting With
Find Sentences
go
Word Tools Finders & Helpers Apps More Synonyms
Copyright WordHippo © 2024