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How to use pedant in a sentence

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

Sentence Examples
There is a pedant on your staff who spends far too much of his time searching for split infinitives.
A pedant or two might ask if you really mean rocket propellants when you say rocket fuel.
The intrusive comma changes the sense, and gives the dedicated pedant a linguistic heart attack.
If we're going to play the grammatical pedant, then let's be careful to get it right.
For the light bars the hold a series of pedant lights you can find shades in glass, alabaster and metal as well as many more choices.
The questioner is shouted down, accused of being a grammatical pedant.
Light bars come in many varieties, from the basic bar of evenly spaced unprotected light bulbs to decorative bars with shaded pedant lights.
Publishing online without proofreading is probably not the greatest of sins, but for a grammar pedant such as I, it's pretty transgressive nonetheless.
Bitcoin only works for payments if you can be reasonably sure that its value will remain reasonably steady for at least the next hour or so. I'm going to play the pedant and note that this isn't quite right.
I cannot imagine his pupil regarding him as anything but a prosy old pedant, set over him by his father to keep him out of mischief.
The Pedant in the Kitchen is a charming little book, somewhere between the colour of saffron and mustard.
Examples from Classical Literature
The practical person, the wary pedant, and the supercritical will scoff at this, but let it stand.
He talks pleasantly, and nothing of a pedant, as I half dreaded he might be.
The pedant, cursed with the ambition to be a ruler of men, is a curious study.
He had dared to differ with Fraser, a hot pedant, on some piece of Latinity.
It has been well said of him that he never became either a pedant or a doctrinaire.
He would be only a pedant who would take nothing because he could not get everything at once.
It had been well for England if this sottish pedant had had no worse servants than Conway and Clarke.
You think yourself happy because you are wise, said a philosopher to a pedant.
That matters very little, except to a pedant and a rhetorician.
Happily Julius was ceasing to be a pedant, even in matters ecclesiastical.
Any one who questions our triumphant progress is tabooed for a pedant.
Her successor and distant cousin, James of Scotland, was a bigoted pedant, and under his rule the perennial Court corruption, striking in, became foul and noisome.
He was a pedant, to the most extreme point, the greatest pedant I had met on earth, and with that had a vanity only befitting Alexander of Macedon.
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