Example Sentences

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Home being aphoristically the place when you go there they have to take you in, Sully does, but it’s an uneasy reunion.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 4, 2023

They talk almost aphoristically about the human condition, ghosts, time, evil, love, and other heavy but abstract things, and they quote Dylan Thomas a few too many times.

From The Verge • Oct. 27, 2014

He added, aphoristically, “We are all first responders.”

From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2013

One of the reasons he writes aphoristically and so provocatively – and this, of course, is why he’s the teenager’s favourite philosopher – is connected to his view of the human psyche.

From Salon • Oct. 1, 2012

H. R. spoke so aphoristically that Mr. Goodchild thought it was a quotation from Ecclesiastes.

From H. R. by Lefevre, Edwin